Abstract

On 23-26 of March 2016, on the basis of Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia a conference ‘Problems of Ontolinguistics - 2016‘ was held. The conference was opened with reports considering the place of ontolinguistics among other scientific disciplines and the history of its study in Russia, a number of reports were devoted to mastering the language vocabulary and to organization of the mental lexicon of the child in conditions of mono- and multilingualism. Considerable attention at the conference was paid to the problems of formation of the morphological component of the language system, genre and linguistic features of prosaic creativity of younger adolescents, perception of verbal communication, the formation of textual competence of the child and many others. The detailed report on the conference is given below.