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The article informs about an international linguistic conference held in honour of Professor Ján Horecký - one of the most famous linguist in Slovakia - on 20th - 22nd January 2010 in Smolenice. The conference was organised by L'udovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Slovak Linguistic Society. The article very briefly describes content of all papers that were presented during the conference that in various aspects continued in a linguistic work of Professor Horecký (e. g. general linguistics, language communication, phonological, grammatical and lexical research, language dynamics sociolinguistics etc.). The author also values the significance of Ján Horecký for the Slovak linguistics very highly.