PLM 2026 Programme
Here is the final static PDF version of the programme for PLM 2026 (as of 18 Sep 2026):
In the table below, which will be updated in real time, clicking on author names opens PDF abstracts.
Sunday, 20 Sep 2026
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13:00–14:00 |
SPECIAL INTEREST TALK: Shelece Easterday: Good practices in journal editing: A perspective from Linguistic Typology [Room 235. Chair: Ewelina Wojtkowiak] |
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15:30–18:00 |
Early Career poster session + Welcome reception |
EARLY CAREER POSTER SESSION [Sun 20 Sep 15:30] — Authors and titles [Corridor in front of the AULA. Chair: Ewelina Wojtkowiak]
G Kanwal: Beyond Traditional Boundaries: Code-Switching as Identity Negotiation in Multilingual Higher Education (Pakistan)
M Wanat: The influence of language errors on processing emotionally valenced content: Behavioral evidence from Polish-English bilinguals
R Szczypek, K Jankowiak and M Naranowicz: Gender modulates moral language processing: Electrophysiological evidence
K Nikitchenko: Modeling Surzhyk in Neural Automatic Speech Recognition
M Faizullova: Evidential Adverbs and the Construction of Authority: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective on Media Discourse
K Kwiecień: Lost in Translation Across the Iron Curtain: Case Study of the Cold War (Mis)translation of Naukometriya
E Milojević: The Complexity–Accuracy Relationship at the Phrasal Level: Evidence from French Noun Phrases in Undergraduate L2 Writing
J Urbaniak: Do interpreters mitigate offence? Emotional responses to gender-targeted face-threatening acts in political speeches
M Kryszkowska, M Kajzer-Wietrzny and R Jaworski: A good review of a bad book or a bad review of a good book: Altering sentiment in AI translation of user-generated content
A Mocniak: On a 3SG generic impersonal in Polish: Impoverished subjunctive in a consistent null subject language
M Kuczek: Navigating complexity of narrative engagement research: exploring the challenges of conducting a multi-method study of literary translation reception
M Moczydłowska: Exploring interpreting quality and stress levels in simultaneous interpreting: The role of proper names and numbers
A Dolińska: Mapping the Creativity Continuum: Automatic Measures of Creative Language Across Text Types
D Sabaleuskaya: New Speakers of Belarusian: A Spoken Corpus Creation
L Zastawny: Dialectal preferences of Polish students of Spanish philology. A sociophonetic analysis of fricative phonemes
R Canyurt: Feeling Stress: A Haptic Approach to Teaching English Lexical Stress
M Tarasevich and I Krzysik: Language profiles, learning experiences, and quality of life of multilingual autistic university students in Poland
K Lach Mirghani: When Words Catch Up with Society: Gender-Inclusive Language in Polish and Spanish Youth Speech
O Ochociński, I Wojtala and M Naranowicz: Mood modulations of gender stereotypes in bilingual women: A behavioural perspective
Monday, 21 Sep 2026
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08:00 |
Registration |
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08:30–09:00 |
Conference opening [Aula] |
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09:00–10:00 |
PLENARY 1: Srikant Sarangi: The ‘(meta)language of communication’ and ecological hybridity’: Reflections on the conditions and consequences of language/communication research in healthcare settings [AULA. Chair: Joanna Pawelczyk] |
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10:00–10:30 |
Coffee break |
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MORE MINIMAL MINIMALIST SYNTAX organized by Piotr Cegłowski and Jacek Witkoś [ROOM 235] |
MANAGING LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY organized by Justyna Olko and Elwira Dexter-Sobkowiak [ROOM: 214] |
GENERAL SESSIONS: Phonetics & Phonology [ROOM 215. Chair: Jarosław Weckwerth] |
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10:30–11:00 |
X Li and V Junnan Pan: Syntax of Obligatory Control: a refined analysis via Form-Copy |
How much diversity? Approaching and managing multilingualism in a cross-cultural perspective. Introductory lecture by J Olko & E Dexter-Sobkowiak |
A Jaber: Labiodental and Interdental Fricatives in Jordanian Arabic Speakers with Class III Malocclusion: An Acoustic Analysis |
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11:00–11:30 |
J Witkoś: Chomsky’s Box Theory and wh-movement |
N Dołowy-Rybińka: Factors weakening and strengthening the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Kashubian community |
S-C Yeh: Vowel lowering in reduplication in Tjuvetsekadan Paiwan |
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11:30–12:00 |
A Frasson: Pseudorelatives as Form-Copy: A Minimalist Analysis |
M Hornsby: Lexical expansion in Breton: Preserving linguistic diversity through language planning |
M Véliz-Campos: Perception and production of English nuclear accent placement in Spanish L1 learners: Language aptitude and musical ability |
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12:00–12:30 |
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N Zduńczyk: Welsh as a responsibility, English as the default: the negative effects of heritage language ideologies among young people |
K Kaźmierski, D Sabaleuskaya & K Dziubalska-Kołaczyk: New Polish sibilants: An acoustic study of female and male conversational speech |
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12:30–14:00 |
Lunch (Not provided) |
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14:00–15:00 |
PLENARY 2: Cezary Mazurek: Linguistics in transdisciplinary dialogue: EBRAINS as a digital infrastructure for brain research in Europe [AULA. Chair: Jacek Witkoś] |
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MINIMALIST SYNTAX [ROOM 235] |
MANAGING LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY [ROOM: 214] |
GENERAL SESSIONS: Sociolinguistics [ROOM 215. Chair: Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak] |
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15:10–15:40 |
THEMATIC SESSION PLENARY TALK: T. Daniel Seely & Hisatsugu Kitahara: Current Directions in Minimalist Syntax |
S Kordasiewicz: ‘We can support your culture and tradition, but avoid claiming that what you speak is a language.’ Emerging trends in the legal protection of linguistic diversity in Poland and Italy |
S Karpava: Sociolinguistic trajectories and identity formation of Ukrainian migrants and refugees in Cyprus: Language attitudes, socialization and migration timing |
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15:40–16:10 |
P Grablunas & J Niewulis-Grablunas: The importance of vitality and transmission of the Dzūkian language in the Lithuanian community in Poland and its role and meaning for the preservation of multilingualism |
A Rozumko: Human-animal relations in the linguistic landscape of a city: an ecolinguistic study of public signs across urban spaces in Białystok |
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16:10–16:40 |
M Ruda: Mortal computational efficiency and copy externalization |
M Madany-Saá: Linguistic diversity as politics of language |
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16:40–17:10 |
N Goto & T Ishii: The phasehood paradox of Passive/Unaccusative vPs and the Feature Valuation Sensitive Box System |
K Wojtylak: Transmitting linguistic diversity: Multilingualism and local language ideologies among the Indigenous peoples from Northwest Amazonia |
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17:10–17:30 |
Coffee break |
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17:30–18:30 |
PLENARY 3 – KEYNOTE: Viorica Marian: The power of language: How the codes we use to think, speak, and live transform our minds [AULA. Chair: Anna Balas] |
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Tuesday, 22 Sep 2026
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09:00–10:00 |
PLENARY 4: Shelece Easterday: Realizing a comprehensive model of diachronic phonological typology: promises and challenges [AULA. Chair: Kamil Kaźmierski] |
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10:00–11:00 |
PLENARY 5: Honorary Lecture by Wolfgang U. Dressler: How linguistics profited from interaction with other disciplines, from its beginnings until today [AULA. Chair: Piotr Gąsiorowski] |
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break |
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MULTIMODAL DIMENSIONS OF METAPHORICAL COGNITION organized by Tomasz Dyrmo [ROOM 211] |
GENERAL SESSIONS: Corpus approaches [ROOM 215. Chair: Karolina Krawczak-Glynn] |
MANAGING LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY [ROOM 214] |
SPECIAL SESSION: The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Linguistics organized by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk [ROOM 235] |
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11:30–12:00 |
M Almirabi: Cultural Diversity and Heart Metaphor in Arabic |
L Albanesi and A Lukšíková: Totality across domains: (inter)subjective uses of Italian totale |
J Olko: Adaptive reproduction versus misadaptation. Historical, socio-demographic and cultural factors shaping multilingual ecologies in Ahuacatlan, Mexico |
Natural Phonology, naturalness, and beyond Patricia J. Donegan, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Richard Wojcik, Šárka Šimáčková, Nikolaus Ritt, Elisa Mattiello |
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12:00–12:30 |
J Spierewka: Conceptual Metaphor and the Linguistics of Game Worlds in Tabletop RPG Rulebooks |
M Nakayasu: Metadiscourse that is to say: History, genre and discourse |
E Dexter-Sobkowiak: “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes”: Assets-based approach to the protection of the linguistic diversity of the Huasteca Potosina, Mexico |
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12:30–13:00 |
T Dyrmo: How do people gesture metaphorically when swearing? Going beyond the middle finger |
A Milinović Hrga: Tokenization Bias in Corpus Tools and Its Consequences for Lexical Density Measurement |
A Becker: Bislama i bigwan nao: Understanding how a lingua franca becomes the family language in communities that have different languages to offer |
Extrernal evidence Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dafydd Gibbon, Paulina Zydorowicz, Monika Połczyńska-Bletsos, Anna Balas, Paula Orzechowska, Kamil Kaźmierski |
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13:00–13:30 |
A Adler, E Davis, M Placiński, E Qing Zhang & M Pleyer: Artificial languages as a tool for studying metaphorical extension across modalities |
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J Wójcicka, A Kuder & J Kotowicz: Exploring the translingual practices of deaf Polish Sign Language signers – A corpus-based study |
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13:30–15:00 |
Lunch (Not provided) |
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MANAGING LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY [ROOM 214] |
Cambridge Handbook of Natural Linguistics |
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15:00–15:30 |
GENERAL POSTER SESSION [Corridor in front of the AULA. Chair: Małgorzata Kul] Authors and titles – see below |
N Ringblom, S Karpava, N Meir, A Zabrodskaja & A Ritter: The mediating role of English in multilingual families with diverse heritage languages in non-English-speaking countries |
Natural Linguistics among modern linguistic theories – a debate between practitioners and friendly observers Richard Wojcik, Livio Gaeta, Geoffrey S. Nathan, Elke Ronneberger-Sibold, Tobias Scheer, Andreas Baumann, William O’Grady, Fernando Sánchez-Miret |
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15:30–16:00 |
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16:00–16:30 |
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General discussion |
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17:30–18:45 |
Book Launch of the Cambridge Handbook of Natural Linguistics + a short concert. Sala Biała, City of Poznań’s City Hall, Plac Kolegiacki 17 – Everyone is WELCOME |
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19:00 |
PLM PARTY, Bazar Hotel, Paderewskiego Street |
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GENERAL POSTER SESSION [Tue 22 Sep 15:00] — Authors and titles [Corridor in front of the AULA. Chair: Małgorzata Kul]
H Alsaadi: Investigating the Perspectives of Saudi EFL Students and Teachers towards the Effect of Oral Corrective Feedback on Academic Engagement
A Balas, Z Cal, I Krzysik, I Kravchuk, K Kaźmierski, M Wrembel: Perceiving similar consonants
K Kaźmierski, R Canyurt, E Wojtkowiak, M Asiaee and G Schwartz: Optimizing creak detectors for Polish speech
I Kravchuk: Multilingual cognitive performance: attention allocation in task-switching across linguistic and nonlinguistic domains
M Zabielska and A Zakharenko: Negotiating expertise and vulnerability: Positioning doctors and patients in medical journal illness narratives
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2026
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09:00–10:00 |
PLENARY 6: Elena Babatsouli: From difference to resource: navigating under-explored linguistic landscapes for research and professional practice [AULA. Chair: Paulina Zydorowicz] |
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10:00–10:30 |
Coffee break |
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FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: REACHING FOR PARALLELS ACROSS DISCIPLINES organized by Elena Babatsouli [ROOM: 235] |
GENERAL SESSIONS: Morphology [ROOM: 214. Chair: TBC] |
GENERAL SESSIONS: Typology & evolution [ROOM: 215. Chair: Nikolaus Ritt] |
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10:30–11:00 |
G Cocchi, T Stortini and C Pierantozzi: Code-switching: the application of a spontaneous phenomenon to L2 acquisition |
C Hamans: Shortening as a factor in word formation |
T Scheer: You don't mess with extremes: how a real world space is populated with cognitive categories |
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11:00–11:30 |
Á Jordanidisz, Á Szabó and B Balázs: Specific features of assessing speech reception and perception in Hungarian bilingual children |
M Krzyżanowska: Variable tightness of converbiality in Amharic |
G Carling: Typology of writing systems: proof-of-concept of a model assessing the evolutionary dynamics of writing systems |
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11:30–12:00 |
C Meluzzi: Acquiring a boundary category: the development of dental affricates in Italian L1 |
F Pichette, J Lesniewska and R Couture-Matte: Feature-driven disruption in French gender assignment: Effects of initial vowels, pluralia tantum, and mass nouns in L1 and L2 speakers |
F Seifart, N Efrat-Kowalsky, M Allassonnière-Tang, M Lemus Serrano, A Świdurska, N Zduńczyk and M Kilarski: More long than flat? Towards a typology of classifier semantics |
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12:00–12:30 |
Y Rose and E Babatsouli: SpeechCatcher for monolingual and multilingual speech research and clinical practice |
K Wojtylak, P Szutow, J Majerska-Sznajder and T Król: Resistant words: Core lexical domains and borrowability in Wymysorys (Vilamovian, West Germanic) |
J Tuczyńska: A Cognitive Model of Mythopoetic Sanskrit and Bengali Contexts |
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12:30–14:00 |
Lunch (Not provided) |
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14:00–15:00 |
GRAND DEBATE [AULA. Chair: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk] |
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15:00–16:00 |
PLENARY 7: Filip Graliński: The unexpected triumph of language models: What they reveal about language, the mind and the Internet Meme [AULA: Chair: Jarosław Weckwerth] |
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16:00–16:30 |
Coffee break |
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FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION [ROOM: 235] |
GENERAL SESSIONS: Psycholinguistics & Sign Language [ROOM: 214. Chair: Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman] |
GENERAL SESSIONS: Syntax [ROOM: 215. Chair: Bartosz Wiland] |
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16:30–17:00 |
J Bóna and Á Jordanidisz: Pausing and disfluencies in bilingual children’s speech |
Y Gucluturk and B Makaroglu: Acquisition Age Gradients in Phonological Fluency: Evidence from Deaf Signers of Turkish Sign Language |
K Janic & N Puddu: Economy and asymmetry in reflexive marking: Introverted and extroverted verbs across languages |
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17:00–17:30 |
E Babatsouli: Rethinking developmental cluster ‘errors’: a synthesis to inform clinical practice |
A Rewerska: Recurrent Gestures of Open Hand and Gesture Space – a Quantitative Approach |
J Łukasik: What is and what is not a comparative construction |
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17:30–18:00 |
J C Aguilar-Castillo and C Aguilar: Spanish language textbooks as conceptual networks: mapping paradigmatic intersections in Mexico's official curriculum (1959–2024) |
A Baumann: Variation in lexical sentiment does not always reflect emotional ambivalence |
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18:00–18:30 |
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I Krzysik, O Witczak & R Jończyk: Boredom as a Modulator of Creativity in the Alternative Uses Task |
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