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The purpose of this study is to verify parametric variations in syntactic operations between Modern(MF) and Old French(OF) movement verb constructions. The OF word-order has been considered as having verb-second properties with some different opinions in regard to structural differences between root and embedded sentences. The study of OF infinitival constructions was done by Pearce(1990), who distinguished causative from non-causative structure in a comprehensive manner, yet the movement verb constructions were not profoundly taken care of. we will therefore focus on a comparative study of OF movement verb constructions with MF counterparts, extracting these constructions and observing their syntactic phenomena. In particular, our study does not concentrate on the verb second properties of OF, but does pay attention to the internal structure of movement verb constructions. Finally, we will make a comparative list of OF movement verb constructions in order to verify an assortment of parametric variants.