The document discusses the locality principle in linguistics. It defines locality as the proximity of elements in a linguistic structure, and the locality principle as the restriction that movements within a structure must be short or local. It provides examples of how the locality principle limits various types of movement, such as subject-auxiliary inversion in questions, subject raising, wh-movement, and reflexive pronouns. The principle is argued to be universal and apply across human languages to constrain linguistic processes from operating over long distances.