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This paper is aimed at analysing the Locative Inversion(LI) Constructions in Old French from modern syntactic point of view. For this purpose, we adopt the feature inheritance proposal of Chomsky (2008) and its revised and reinterpreted version of Goto(2008), which will be slightly modified for our analysis. The problems we have to solve are summarized by the following three questions. First, what can be an attractor triggering the finite-verb movement? Second, what will move a locative phrase to the position of Spec-CP? Third, can LI with null subject and LI with lexical subject have the same syntactic procedures or do they have to be distinguished from each other? After analyzing these problems with above-mentioned proposals, we conclude that they can be addressed by the parallel movement and our revised version of feature inheritance system. Finally, we make a comparative list of Old French LI Constructions in order to observe differences in parametric variation. (Youngsan University)