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 Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Materials from past PLMs are archived here.

PLM2021: 16–19 Sep 2021

It is with great pride that we announce that we will be celebrating the 50th edition of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting during the conference's next edition. We originally planned to hold the conference on 17–20 September 2020. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have decided to postpone the meeting to 16–19 September 2021. The meeting will be held in a fully online format.

The meeting will be organised by the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. This jubilee edition will focus on the impact of linguistic research on our cognition and knowledge. We hope that its leitmotif, "Linguistics matters: On the importance of the study of language in the modern world," will encourage participants to submit contributions from any area of linguistics, providing evidence for the discipline's relevance for communication and cognition on both a societal and individual level. In addition to our usual plenary events as well as thematic and workshop sessions, there will be events organized specifically to reflect the jubilee character of the 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting.

Plenary events

The keynote address will be given by Ian Maddieson (University of New Mexico).

Confirmed plenary speakers:

• Martine Robbeets (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
• Joanna Pawelczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
• Charles B. Chang (Boston University): Similarity in multilingual perceptual development and attrition

Thematic sessions and more

There will be several thematic sessions and workshops, as well as a special session for PhD candidates.

Thirty years of contrastive linguistics conferences: A session in memory of Jacek Fisiak (1936–2019)

A session in memory of Prof. Jacek Fisiak and the Contrastive Linguistics Conferences will be organised by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk and Camiel Hamans. In 1970, the late Jacek Fisiak (1936-2019) organised the first Polish-English contrastive linguistics conference. When Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk took over the organization of this series of conferences in 1997, the name Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) was adopted. So, the next PLM will be the 50th Poznań conference, which is not only a good reason to put a spotlight on the conference itself, but even more so to commemorate the one who took the initiative for this series of meetings - Jacek Fisiak. This cannot be done better than by focusing attention on the subject that was so dear to him - contrastive linguistics. The contributions will look back on fifty years of research in contrastive linguistics, and in particular, the contributions that the conferences organized by Jacek Fisiak and his successors have made, but they will also deal with topics that are current in contrastive linguistics research. There is an intention to publish the papers from this session in a separate volume.

Great returns

Over the years, many eminent linguists graduating from Poznań have gone on to pursue their research careers at different research centres around the world. There will be a special session organised for them during the 50th PLM, too.

Grand debate

Over several recent editions, PLM has developed a tradition of the plenary speakers debating on topics related to each year's leitmotif. To make the debate even more special for the jubilee edition, we have decided to extend an invitation to participate in it to our past plenary speakers. We think we are justified in hoping for an in-depth and stimulating discussion on the importance of linguistics today.