whfronted
Whfronted, more commonly called wh-fronting or wh-movement, is a syntactic phenomenon in which a wh-word (such as who, what, where, or how) is moved to the front of a clause. This movement is used to form questions, relative clauses, and some other dependency structures, by linking a fronted element to its original position inside the clause.
In English and many other languages, the wh-word originates within a lower clause but is displaced to
Typologically, wh-fronting is widespread in languages with overt wh-words and movement to a high clause periphery
Historically, wh-fronting has been central to generative grammar since the mid-20th century, shaping theories of movement,