A movement rule is a syntactic principle that describes how certain elements within a sentence can be repositioned or rearranged to form different structures while maintaining grammaticality. This concept is often used in generative grammar to explain phenomena such as question formation, negation, and topicalization. For example, in English, the question "What did she eat?" involves the movement of the object "what" to the front of the sentence, which is not its original position in the statement "She ate what." Movement rules help to illustrate how language can manipulate word order and structure to convey meaning, as well as how speakers intuitively apply these rules in constructing sentences. Understanding movement rules is crucial for analyzing sentence structure and the relationships between different elements within a sentence.

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