Editing Movement paradox (section)

{{Short description|Grammatical paradox}}
A '''movement paradox''' is a phenomenon of grammar that challenges the [[transformational grammar|transformational]] approach to [[syntax]].<ref>See Pollard and Sag (1994:165-166) and Bresnan (2001:16-19) for a discussion of movement paradoxes.</ref> The importance of movement paradoxes is emphasized by those theories of syntax (e.g. [[lexical functional grammar]], [[head-driven phrase structure grammar]], [[construction grammar]], most [[dependency grammar]]s) that reject movement, i.e. the notion that [[Discontinuity (linguistics)|discontinuities]] in syntax are explained by the movement of [[Constituent (linguistics)|constituents]].