Cinque, Guglielmo2024-05-262024-05-262024-04-213033-0599https://doi.uni-plovdiv.bg/handle/"store"/73The present article addresses the question of cross-linguistic word order variation, considering the partial regularities found in the languages of the world and the non-existence of certain expected orders. It proposes that movement is at the basis of a restrictive theory of word order variation.enword ordercross-linguistic variationregularitiesmovementArticle