Vitebsk conference to discuss Belarusian-Russian-Polish comparative linguistics

VITEBSK, 19 October (BelTA) – More than 100 specialists in philology will participate in the 8th international research conference “Belarusian-Russian-Polish Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies” which will be held in the Masherov State University of Vitebsk on 22-24 October, BelTA learnt from Professor Anna Mezenko, head of the general and Russian linguistics department of the Masherov State University. Attending the conference will be researchers from Belarus, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Canada and China. The participants of the forum will discuss the fundamental problems of genetic and typological relations between languages and also various levels of the language systems. The scientists will consider various aspects of the language. They will also present the results of the research dealing with the structural and semantic aspects of the linguistic means study. During the conference, its participants will consider the problems of ethno-linguistics, dialectology, cognitive and communicative linguistics. The conference will discuss the problems of the Russian-Chinese and Belarusian-Chinese comparative linguistics for the first time. The conference has been organized by the Masherov State University of Vitebsk under the auspices of the Belarus Education Ministry, the Belarusian National Fund of Fundamental Research and the Polish Institute in Minsk.

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