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.
We are pleased to announce that the 41st Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2010) will be held on 23–26 September 2010 in Gniezno. The leitmotif will be Competitive explanations in linguistics: In search of a framework.
Please note that the deadline for submissions has expired.
PLM2010 will comprise three thematic discussion sessions and general sessions.
We invite submissions of abstracts for oral presentations at three special thematic discussion sessions, each of which will have space for six presentations. We also invite abstracts for oral or poster presentations at the general sessions (not necessarily related to the conference theme).
Each oral presentation will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. Poster presentations will be an integral part of the conference programme. The language of the conference is English.
The three thematic discussion sessions are as follows:
The thematic discussion sessions will take place on Friday, 24 September (Syntax), Saturday, 25 September (Change and variation) and Sunday, 26 September (Phonology), and will be preceded by invited plenary talks related to the session themes.
Keynote address by William Labov (University of Pennsylvania): "Outward bound: language as a property of the speech community" [PDF abstract].
Confirmed invited plenary speakers:
If you would like to post the PLM2010 Call for Papers, please use the PDF document below for printing. It is a static document (published 07 Jan 2010) which repeats most of the information on this web site.