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Anniversary of Syntactic Structures Celebrated in Moscow
From Barbara Partee:
Russians are big on anniversaries.
In February I relayed a request from Olga Mitrenina in St Petersburg to find out what month Syntactic Structures was published 50 years ago. Kai von Fintel tracked down the history and found it was February, and that went into an article Olga published in February in the popular press called (I'm translating) Colorless Green Ideas Live and Conquer.
Independently of that, a group of Moscow syntax students organized the first Moscow generative syntax conference, and called it "Syntactic Structures" ("Sintaksicheskie Struktury") in commemoration of that anniversary as well. It was a really nice two-day conference held in Moscow, April 5-6, with some students from St. Petersburg also participating. Here's the program. There were 13 presentations by students and young researchers, and 5 invited talks by senior linguists (including me), and a banquet at the end.
Yakov Testelets closed the conference with a tribute to the enterprise of the students who organized the conference and to the revolution in linguistics marked by the publication of Syntactic Structures. The toasts at the banquet included an optimistic toast to the effect that there is now no longer "Russian linguistics" and "Western linguistics" but just "linguistics" -- maybe still a bit of an exaggeration, but increasingly true now for the younger generations of linguists in Moscow and St Petersburg. I've personally witnessed a huge change in 10 years.
There was also a nice toast to the 40th anniversary of Haj Ross's dissertation! Who would have noticed and marked the date besides a Russian! It was a great conference, very lively and stimulating, with a wonderful atmosphere! There are some photos of it on my Flickr site.