On-line Conference
"The 40-th Anniversary of Generativism"
1-12.12.1997

Since Chomsky's "Syntactic Structures", published in 1957, the generative view in linguistics has become widely popular. Thus, this year is the 40-th anniversary of the publication. In past forty years the generative linguistics has passed several stages of development and currently it can be considered a broad and dynamically growing theory, having multiply links both within the linguistics and with other sciences.

We see the goal of the conference as helding an overall discussion on generative linguistics. The work of the conference should be organized in 4 sections:

Section 1. History & methodology.
Section 2. Current investigations in generative linguistics in all of it's variants (GB-theory, minimalistic program, etc.).
Section 3. Development perspectives, unsolved problems.
Section 4. Interconnections with other sciences: biolinguistics, psyholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive, computational, mathematical linguistics.

The conference is organized by the electronic journal "Web Journal of Formal, Computational & Cognitive Linguistics"

Program committee: Noam Chomsky, Robert Freidin, Neil Smith, Henk van Riemsdijk, Carlos Otero.
Invited speakers are: Kazuko Inoue, Victoria Fromkin, Martin Everaert, Lyle Jenkins.

All the proceedings will be put on the Web site of the Journal. After the conference the proceedings of the conference are to be published in the Journal, on CD and printed as a book.

SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCEDURES: Paper selection and review procedures will be similar to those of a regular conference. All text must be in ASCII. Length of the paper is not limited. Papers must be send to generate@ksu.ru. The first 4 lines of the message should consist of

Your name
Your email address
The title of the paper
Number of your section

Our time-frame is:
Deadline for papers: November 1, 1997
Final program announced: November 20, 1997

Participation in the on-line conference will be carried out on the GENERATE mailing list that has been created for that purpose.
To subscribe to this list, send the following message to majordomo@ksu.ru:
Please note the conference is over after Dec 12, 1997

SUBSCRIBE GENERATE YourEmail

For example: SUBSCRIBE GENERATE bill@silence.sea.moon

Once you have received confirmation of your subscription, you may send messages to generate@ksu.ru, and you will automatically receive all new messages sent to the list and approved by moderator. A record of all received message will be maintained on a specific Web page at the conference site. Participants may send their comments and questions by means of the GENERATE list. Everyone subscribed to the list will receive these messages. If you wish to leave the list, send the following message to "majordomo@ksu.ru": UNSUBSCRIBE GENERATE YourEmail

At the end of the conference participants will be automatically removed from the GENERATE list.

Proceedings of The Conference

Final Annoucement

Dear subscribers,
Thank you for active participance in the conference.
I would like to give our special thanks to the authors. Due to their contribution the conference has got high level.
Now the conference is closed. Because some of the papers declared in the programme did not appear to the moment, we shall keep list of subscribers and resend additional materials as soon as they will be ready.
There was about 350 participants in the conference. The organizer - "Web Journal of Formal, Computational & Cognitive Linguistics" supposes the conference was successful and plans to held such an electronic conferences in future. We will be grateful for any suggestions on organizational forms and themes of a conference.

Organization committe chairman
Valery Solovyev