Locality: Domains and intervention

The locality conditions that restrict syntactic dependencies have been of central importance to the study of syntax, and broadly speaking, two families of locality conditions can be distinguished: (i) conditions that render certain syntactic domains impenetrable from the outside (e.g., phases), and (ii) conditions that ban certain dependencies across intervening elements (e.g., relativized minimality). The goal of this course is to give an overview of these two kinds of constraints, with an eye towards their relationship to each other.