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In this chapter, we introduce the concept of phases, a further development of the islands/subjacency/barriers line of investigation, but with many other consequences. We look at the notion of phase and the Phase Impenetrability Condition, in particular Chomsky’s original rigid definition of phases as CP, v*P and DP, which contrasts with Bošković’s contextual definition. We also look
at the consequence of the PIC that successive-cyclic movement has to pass through SpecvP and adduce a range of cross-linguistic evidence in support of this. We then turn to the question of the driver for successive-cyclic movement. The Labelling Algorithm (LA) can provide an elegant account of this. Finally, we see the evidence for a new set of islands and how the contextual definition of phases, the antilocality condition on movement and the PIC conspire to give a narrow window of movement-targets.
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