Angel Gallego (UAB) will present a talk entitled, "Strict and flexible cyclicity in phase theory."

Abstract
This talk has two goals. On the one hand, it discusses recent phase-theoretic conceptions of “strict cyclicity,” which typically involve the application of an operation (Spell-Out, Transfer, etc.); in particular, I discuss the possibility that Transfer does not remove the syntactic objects created in the course of a derivation (which I relate to the similar role played by the Phase Impenetrability and the No Tampering Conditions). On the other hand, I review the empirical evidence suggesting that NPs and PPs do not align with CPs and vPs when it comes to certain strict-cyclicity defining properties; although the facts do not argue that NPs and PPs are locality-free domains, they do suggest that the notion “phase” (sensu Chomsky 2000 et seq.) does not quite apply to them.