long-distance dependency
Technical term in linguistics referring to a syntactic relation where a constituent is displaced far from its canonical position, such as in wh-movement or topicalization.
In English wh-questions, long-distance dependencies are often observed.
This paper discusses the processing of long-distance dependencies in Japanese.
Compound of 長距離 (long distance) and 依存 (dependency), a calque of the English linguistic term 'long-distance dependency'.