Thank you for your cooperation. The conference offers a unique opportunity for its participants to exchange views on the languages whose structures share so many features, despite the genetic or areal unrelatedness. A Special Session will be held, devoted to theoretical frameworks for the analysis of isolating languages. We are certainly far from an intention to develop an esoteric metalanguage. Most of currently used linguistic models are not properly equipped to give a student of FE, SEA, and WA languages reliable analytic tools, even where such fundamental linguistic objects as the phoneme, parts of speech, clause, etc. are concerned.
Invited speakers are to be announced.
Working languages will be English and Russian. All submissions are subject to refereeing by the Program Committee. E-mail submissions are strongly encouraged. Deadline for response to the 1st circular is March 10, 1999. Notifications of acceptance will be mailed out before May 1999.