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Li, Charles N. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1976. On the issue of word order in a synchronic grammar: A case against 'movement transformations'. Lingua 39 (3) : 169–181. 
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English
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It is argued, first, that the fact that a language has a favorite word order does not imply that that word order should be postulated to be the underlying one; and second, that probably in some languages many of the 'movement rules' relating surface word orders do not exist.