Direction: Urtzi Etxeberria.
IKER/CNRS.
Ricardo Etxepare.
IKER/CNRS.
Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria.
University of the Baque Country. UPV/EHU.

Aims: Recent theoretical advances in generative grammar have led to a conception of the architecture of grammar which differs in important respects from the classical model adopted by the Principles and Parameters approach that was developed during the 80s. Assuming the Principles and Parameters theory of the language faculty, the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory (Chomsky 1995, Lasnik, Uriagereka and Boeckx 2005, Hornstein, Nunes and Grohmann 2003, among others) adopts the view that Universal Grammar (UG) is optimally designed to meet the interface requirements at the perceptual/articulatory and the conceptual/intentional systems. This theoretical view leads to the elimination of much of the rich conceptual apparatus that was available in earlier models, and to the assumption that there are only two levels of representation, PF and LF ?justified as the interface with the articulatory-perceptual and the conceptual-intentional systems. The goal of this course is to investigate the nature and properties of the licensing conditions that take place at these two interfaces.
This meeting is one of the activities organized within the research project Licensing Conditions at the Interfaces funded by the Basque Governement (Research Nets in Linguistics/Humanities 2007). The project is being developed by linguists from the following research centers and universities: Hizkuntzalaritza Teorikorako Taldea-Basque Research Group in Linguistics (IT-210-07), IKER (CNRS, University of Bordeaux 3 and Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour), University of Nantes and University of Paris VIII.
The research net has as its aim to foster and present research realized in the area of linguistic interfaces, with particular attention to the syntax-semantics interface and the licensing conditions involved in the mapping from syntactic representations onto semantic ones. The subject has become a privileged area of linguistic research in the last decade, and has open new perspectives on the relation between aspects of cognition and language.
Addressed to: undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics and philology, faculty and researchers in linguistics. 

In collaboration with the European Research Net in Linguistics/Licensing Conditions at the Interfaces (funded by the Basque Government).

Prospective audience: The encounter will be oriented at research and academic professionals all over Europe, as well as students of master and doctoral programs. A basic knowledge of formal syntax and semantics is required to attend the courses.

To register, participants will have to send an application. Registration is free (there is no fee). The Summer Courses have the right to reject applications.
No scholarships available.

Academic validity: 20 hours.

Official language: English.

European activity