Scientists from seven countries will discuss problems of comparative linguistics at a conference in Vitebsk

October 19, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. More than 100 scientists and philologists will take part in the VIII International Scientific Conference "Belarusian-Russian-Polish Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies", which will be held on October 22-24 at the Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Anna Mezenko, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of General and Russian Linguistics of the university. Representatives of scientific and educational institutions from Belarus, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Canada, and China will gather in Vitebsk. During the scientific forum, participants will discuss a wide range of theoretical problems of genetic and typological relations between languages, as well as various levels of language systems. The focus of the scientists' discussions will be various aspects of language directly related to human functioning in society. Specialists will present the results of research on structural and semantic aspects of studying linguistic means, and will consider problematic issues of ethnolinguistics, dialectology, cognitive and communicative linguistics. For the first time, the conference will raise issues of Russian-Chinese and Belarusian-Chinese comparative linguistics. Based on the results of the forum, a collection of materials is planned to be published. The conference is organized by the Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov with the support of the Ministry of Education, the Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research, and the Polish Institute in Minsk.-0-