PLM2025 Programme

THEMATIC SESSION: Rethinking the semantics of classifiers. Organized by Marcin Kilarski, Marc Allassonnière-Tang, and Éva Dékány [Room 207, Collegium Rubrum]

14:30–15:00

Marcin Kilarski and Éva Dékány: The semantics of classifiers: current issues and future directions

15:00–15:30

Gerd Carling: Classifiers, noun class and gender. What are the most important typological differences and how can we explain their emergence and evolutionary behaviour?

15:30–16:00

Coffee break

16:00–16:30

Tom Güldemann: Revising the semantic assignment typology of gender and its repercussions for the analysis of classifier systems

16:30–17:00

Krzysztof Stroński, John Peterson & Lennart Chevallier: On the diachrony of South Asian numeral classifiers

17:00–17:30

Katarzyna Janic & Krzysztof Stroński: Semantic dimensions and morphosyntactic roles of verbal classifiers in valency change: Insights from Gumuz, Gooniyandi, and Worrorra

17:00–19:00

EARLY CAREER POSTER SESSION and Welcome Wine Reception [Collegium Rubrum] [Chair: Ewelina Wojtkowiak]

Authors and titles – see below

09:00–09:30

Conference opening [Aula]

09:30–10:30

PLENARY 1: Andrea Ravignani: Vocal learning and the origins of human rhythm: A comparative approach [Aula] [Chair: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk]

10:30–11:00

Coffee break

THEMATIC SESSION: Rethinking the semantics of classifiers. Organized by Marcin Kilarski, Marc Allassonnière-Tang, and Éva Dékány [Room 4.13]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Sociolinguistics [Room 4.14] [Chair: Joanna Pawelczyk]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Phonetics [Room 4.18] [Chair: Jarosław Weckwerth]

11:00–11:30

Yi-Sin Lai, One-Soon Her, Anthony Chi-Pin Hsu, Hung-Hsin Hsu & Sau-Chin Chen: Does object visualization affect classifier choice? Findings from phrase-based and picture-based ratings

Katarzyna Wojtylak, Alexandra Aikhenvald: The language of coca: Tracing the spread of ‘coca’ in Amazonian languages

Danielle Daidone, Ryan Lidster, Iryna Kravchuk, Ewelina Wojtkowiak, Anna Balas: Ukrainian consonant perception by Polish listeners: How assimilation and free classification predict discrimination performance

11:30–12:00

Jiaqi Guo & Jinlei Zhong: Influence of shape similarity on classifier effect: evidence from native adults and CSL learners

Olga Steriopolo, Veronika Makarova, Natalia Gagarina: Ukrainian and Russian heritage language use in Canadian and German immigrant communities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ewelina Wojtkowiak, Geoff Schwartz, Kamil Kaźmierski, Maral Asiaee, Rafia Canyurt: Perception of Creaky Voice in English by L1 Polish Speakers

12:00–12:30

Qi Huang: Referentiality and contrast of specific and general classifiers in exophoric contexts in Southern Min and Hakka – a cognitive experiment

Małgorzata Kul, Zofia Malisz, Jan Foremski: How predictability shapes the way we speak: Lessons from Polish conversations and reading aloud

12:30–13:00

Anna Balas, Zuzanna Cal, Iga Krzysik, Iryna Kravchuk, Kamil Kaźmierski & Magdalena Wrembel: Reciprocal perception of consonants by Polish and Ukrainian adolescents

13:00–14:00

Lunch

14:00–15:00

PLENARY 2: Neil Cohn: Reimagining linguistic uniqueness in multimodal paradigm [Aula] [Chair: Raymond Hickey]

THEMATIC SESSION: Rethinking the semantics of classifiers [Room 4.13]

15:00–15:30

Haleli Harel: A network approach to modeling the semantic range of Kilivila noun classifiers and Ancient Egyptian graphemic classifiers

15:30–16:00

Katarzyna Wojtylak: Semantic categorization in Witotoan classifiers from Northwest Amazonia: Exploring patterns across the language family

16:00–16:30

Nikola Zduńczyk: The conceptions behind the supernatural and the divine in classifier systems

17:00

Social programme (excursions)

09:00–10:00

PLENARY 3: Raymond Hickey: Language beyond Earth. The value of this speculative topic [Aula] [Chair: Piotr Gąsiorowski]

GENERAL SESSIONS: What is language [Room 4.13] [Chair: Piotr Gąsiorowski]

GENERAL SESSIONS (Syntax) [Room 4.14] [Chair: Bartosz Wiland]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Semantics [Room 4.18] [Chair: Kamil Malarski]

10:00–10:30

Nancy Niedzielski, Dennis Preston: How the Social Plays into Bird (and other non-Human) Communication

Martina Riva, Adrien Dadone, Louise Bony, Beatrice Giustolisi, Carlo Cecchetto: Strong recursion as a uniquely human trait? The 'prefer' test

Joanna Tuczyńska: Beyond Metaphor: Sanskrit Theory of Dhvani and Cognitive Linguistics

10:30–11:00

Michael Pleyer, Marcus Perlman, Gary Lupyan, Koen de Reus, Limor Raviv: Revising Hockett’s ‘Design Features of Language'

Jacek Witkoś: Chomsky's box theory and wh-movement

11:00–11:30

Coffee break

11:30–12:30

SPECIAL INTEREST TALK: Hanna Mamzer (Adam Mickiewicz University): Communication with aliens? [Aula] [Chair: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk]

GENERAL SESSIONS (Syntax) [Room 4.14] [Chair: Bartosz Wiland]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Pragmatics [Room 4.18] [Chair: Agnieszka Lijewska]

12:30–13:00

Alona Kononenko-Szoszkiewicz, Wolfgang U. Dressler: When 'No' Goes Astray: A Blind Alley Development in the Early Acquisition of Polish Negative Sentences

Paweł Chełminiak, Rafał Jończyk, Guillaume Thierry, Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman: Irony processing is more cognitively taxing in L2 and more effective in L1: Evidence from event-related potentials

13:00–13:30

Marwan Jarrah: Accusative by Default: Revisiting Case Assignment in Arabic

13:30–14:30

Lunch

14:30–15:30

PLENARY 4: Daniel Everett: Speculative Grammar and the Nonuniqueness of Human Language [Aula] [Chair: Jacek Witkoś]

18:15

Poznań Old Town Walk

19:00

PLM PARTY [Bazar Hotel] [Google maps]

09:00–10:00

PLENARY 5: Wolfgang U. Dressler: Human language vs. communication of the bees. In honour of the Austrian Nobel prize winner (1973) Karl von Frisch, who detected bee communication [Aula] [Chair: Paulina Zydorowicz]

10:00–11:00

PLENARY 6: Magdalena Wrembel: To be or not to be multilingual: What makes L3 phonological acquisition unique? [Aula] [Chair: Anna Balas]

11:00–11:30

Coffee break

GENERAL SESSIONS: Lexicography & morphology [Room 4.13] [Chair: Sylwia Wojciechowska]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Gesture [Room 4.14] [Chair: Tomasz Dyrmo]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Discourse analysis [Room 4.18] [Chair: Magdalena Zabielska]

11:30–12:00

Fujio Nakamura: Explaining American English Usages with Reference to the History of British English Usages: Variations of Past Participle Got and Gotten

Aleksandra Rewerska: Open-Hand Gesture Family in Polish Repertoire of Recurrent Gestures – an example from Role Playing Game sessions

Karolina Krawczak, Anna Rogos-Hebda, Małgorzata Fabiszak: Uncovering the conceptualization of GUILT in American English across time. A usage-based approach comparing human and machine-assisted analysis

12:00–12:30

Camiel Hamans: Another form of word formation

Theresa Matzinger, Monika Boruta, Marek Placiński, Aoife Jordan, Hannah Marwan-Schlosser: The aesthetic appeal of sign languages: intrinsic appeal or cultural associations?

12:30–13:30

GRAND DEBATE [Aula]

13:30–14:30

Lunch

GENERAL SESSIONS: Sociophonetics [Room 4.13] [Chair: Kamil Kaźmierski]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Psycholinguistics [Room 4.14] [Chair: Rafał Jończyk]

14:30–15:00

Anna Lukaszewicz: Variable rhoticity in Standard Scottish English: A sociolinguistic perspective

Agnieszka Lijewska, Paulina Łęska-Bayraktar, Jacek Witkoś: Processing cataphoric pronouns in Polish – evidence from co-referent judgements and self-paced reading

15:00–15:30

Marwan Jarrah, Leen Ababneh: Rethinking vowel epenthesis: A sociophonetic perspective

Marcin Naranowicz, Iga Krzysik: Positive vibes, predictive minds: A positive mood fuels semantic prediction

15:30–16:00

Kamil Malarski, Witosz Awedyk: L3 dialect acquisition in Norwegian: Production, perception and socio-cultural predictors

Magdalena Dyzert: Approaches towards happiness as reflected in multiword expressions