Welcome

The Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) is an annual general linguistics conference organised by the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. The Organiziing Committee is led by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk. Materials from past PLMs are archived here.

PLM2026: 20–23 Sep 2026

For this edition of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting, we invite participants to engage with the leitmotif “Linguistics in dialogue: looking for parallels beyond language”. We would like to encourage reflection on how linguistic phenomena can be illuminated/informed by other domains.

Linguistics has long relied on analogies to describe, explain, and model language: language as a system, as a network, as a biological capacity, as a cultural phenomenon. Such metaphors often shape the questions we ask and the methods we adopt. At the same time, insights from neighbouring disciplines, for example from biology, medicine, cognitive science, anthropology, physics, computer science, or the arts, have challenged and enriched linguistic theory.

With this year’s leitmotif, we invite contributions that explore how looking beyond language can deepen our understanding of it. Which analogies are productive, and where do they reach their limits? How do metaphors guide linguistic thinking, and when do they constrain it?

We welcome submissions from all areas of linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives, that engage with comparison, analogy, and cross-disciplinary dialogue, whether by borrowing tools, concepts, or ways of thinking. Proposals of thematic/workshop sessions and papers are invited for both oral and poster presentations related to the leitmotif, as well as to other topics within modern linguistics.

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