Welcome!

The Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) is an annual general linguistics conference that continues the tradition of the Polish-English contrastive conferences started by Jacek Fisiak in 1970. The name "Poznań Linguistic Meeting" was adopted in 1997, when Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk took over as the Head of the Organising Committee. The Meetings are organised by the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Materials from past PLMs are archived here.

PLM2009

The 40th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2009) will take place on 2-5 September 2009 at the CEG campus in Gniezno, Poland. The leitmotif will be Variants, Variability, Variation.

Prof. Barbara Kudrycka, Minister of Science and Higher Education, will be the honorary patron of the Meeting.

Papers and sessions

Proposals of papers related to this main theme, as well as to other fields of modern linguistics, are invited. Each paper will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. The language of the conference is English.

There will also be poster sessions.

Selected papers from the conference will be published in a joint volume issued by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Plenary speakers already confirmed

  • Ellen Contini-Morava (University of Virginia, Charlottesville): "The meaning of Agreement"
  • Karol Janicki (University of Bergen): "The discourse of befuddlement" [PDF abstract]
  • Nancy Niedzielski (Rice University): "Perceptual experiments and phonetic variation: finding out what speakers don't know they know, and vice versa"
  • Dennis Preston (Oklahoma State University): "The four elephants of sociolinguistics inspect a ping-pong ball" [PDF abstract]
  • Peter Trudgill (University of Agder, Kristiansand): "On the growth of variants: Sociolinguistic typology and the development of allomorphy and allophony" [PDF abstract]

Special lecture

  • Andrzej Grzybowski (Karol Marcinkowski University Medical School, Poznań): "Ludwik Zamenhof – one of the most important ophthalmologists in the world's culture. On the 150th anniversary of his birth"

Important dates

  • Main submission deadline for all abstracts (papers, posters and workshop sessions): 15 May 2009 (expired)
  • Notification of acceptance for papers and posters: 15 June 2009