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The disintegration of the nominal declension in Anglian: The case of i-stems
Elżbieta Adamczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
The curvilinear hypothesis revisited: Sound change in Charleston, South CarolinaMaciej Baranowski (University of Manchester)
Results and feature specification of Polish prefixes
Adam Biały (University of Wrocław)
The tourist´s mind: National stereotypes at heart
Olga Blanco Carrión (University of Córdoba)
Joanna Bugaj (University of Leeds/Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Empty categories revisited and revised cross-linguistically
Ewa Bułat (University of Wrocław)
Comparing the Old English and Old Norse syntax of hypotactic structures
Isabella Buniyatova (Kiev National Linguistic University)
Rough set approach in formal learning theory
Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
PTIME transformation of pregroup grammar into CFG and PDA
Wojciech Buszkowski and Katarzyna Moroz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Syntactic optionality in an Optimality Theoretic framework: Genitive/possessive variation
Bożena Cetnarowska (University of Silesia, Sosnowiec)
Idiom and metaphor comprehension in schizophrenia
Anna Cieślicka, Karolina Rataj (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Edward Gorzelańczyk, Marta Kuklińska (Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz)
PLM Progress Report 4: Inventing Virtual Humans that Teach and Conduct Therapy
Ron Cole (University of Colorado, Boulder)
The Patient's Perspective (Sociolinguistic analysis of illness narratives)
Eva Demeter (University of Szeged)
Preliminaries on Old Bulgarian corpus building
Tsvetana Dimitrova (The Norwegian University of Technology and Sciences, Trondheim)
Mojmír Dočekal (Brno)
National stereotypes, mentalities and discourse
Anatolij Dorodnych (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Definitness and clitic predicatisation in Slovenian
Bostjan Dvorak (Berlin)
On the non-Africanness of A Dictionary of South African English
Anna Dziemianko (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Challenging Labov's account of Negative Inversion constructions in AAVE
Agnieszka Dziołak (Wrocław University)
The representation of Polish migrants in the UK as constructed in the Polish press
Małgorzata Fabiszak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
The conceptualization of immigration in children's narratives
Wiesława Ferlacka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Mapping language in patients undergoing brain surgery
Itzhak Fried (University of California Los Angeles, Tel-Aviv University)
Some typological remarks on diphthongs
Klaus Geyer (Vilnius)
Annotating prosody: design specifications for a prosodic ontology
Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld)
Measure phrases and negative degrees in Japanese, English and Polish
Szymon Grzelak (Kyoto)
Beats-and-Binding typology of the dispreferred clusters of RP
Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak (University of Opole)
Silesian and Cashubian ethnolects as contrasting types of ethnic identity strengthening
Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak (University of Opole)
Between Hamasstan and Dumbfuckistan: About blends
Camiel Hamans (European Parliament Brussels/Strasbourg)
Deconstructing the links of addition
Thomas Hanke (Berlin)
Christopher Hart (University of East Anglia)
Consonant dissimilations in Middle English
Anna Hebda (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Reduction phenomena in Lancashire dialect: implications for grammaticalisation
Willem Hollmann, Anna Siewierska (Lancaster University)
Finnish verbs of perception in a typological perspective
Tuomas Huumo (Turku)
Adjectival inflection in medieval Irish English texts
Piotr Jakubowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Distant countries brought home: Linguascaping the exotic in British TV and newspaper travelogues
Adam Jaworski (Cardiff University)
A finite-state approach to super-long German nouns
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Defining logics and refining structures: on type reduction systems underlying categorial grammars
Maciej Kandulski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Recognizing English contact induced features in medical texts
Csilla Keresztes (University of Szeged)
Paul Kerswill, Eivind Torgersen (Lancaster University) and Sue Fox (Queen Mary, London University)
Sonorants conspiracy: A unified solution to vowel syncope and bogus clusters in English
Artur Kijak (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Causativization as a de-transitivizing device
Seppo Kittilä (Turku)
Proper names recognition in ELT listening
Polina P. Kobeleva (Wellington)
Sociolinguistic variation in present-day Australian English
Minna Korhonen (Helsinki)
Do fixed expressions reflect national stereotypes? On impoliteness in English, German, and Polish
Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Effort management as a lenition/fortition criterion
Małgorzata Kul (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Channel-driven economy strategies in English and Polish SMS messages
Małgorzata Kul (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) and Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University)
Social conditions of effective communication
Włodzimierz Lapis (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
The making of Australian English: Contact with the Aboriginal languages habitat
Gerhard Leitner (Freie Universität Berlin)
Aleksandra Łukomska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Learnability of Semi-rigid Grammars
Jacek Marciniec (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Logic and law: The illogical language of the law in translation
Aleksandra Matulewska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Communication disability of aphasic persons in daily living
Jean-Michel Mazaux (University of Bordeaux)
The Wiki Way to corpus analysis: aspects of automatic text classification
Thomas Mehler (Bielefeld)
Direct semantic marking in Kartvelian languages and the problem of inversion of personal markers
Irene G. Melikishvili (Tbilisi)
Liliane Meyer (LINGUA, Federal Office for Migration, Switzerland)
Grzegorz Michalski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
The difficulty of being different: ‘reversed’ adjectival syntagms in Classical Arabic
Marcin Michalski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
A corpus-based analysis of the peculiar behaviour of the Polish verb "podobać się"
Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen, Paweł Scheffler (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Ulrike Mosel (Christian-Albrecht University, Kiel)
Michael Moss (University of Gdańsk)
The grammaticization of 'but' as a final particle in English conversation
Jean Mulder (Melbourne) and Sandra A. Thompson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
On Pro-Drop and Impoverishment: Towards a New Concept of Morphological Richness
Gereon Müller (Leipzig)
Constraint rank border crossing
Roland Noske (Lille)
Celtic pastimes as a form of expressing the national identity of the Irish
Katarzyna Olejniczak-Gołembowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
The interaction of morphology and phonology - a functional approach
Paula Orzechowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Present-day nonstandard features in Colonial New England
Adrian Pablé (University of Berne) and Radoslaw Dylewski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Locked in the language: Loanwords and national stereotypes
Mirosława Podhajecka (University of Opole)
Classification of Dysarthria in Polish TBI patients
Monika Połczyńska-Fiszer (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Anna Pufal (Collegium Medicum UMK, Bydgoszcz)
Null Stress in Polish and German, syntax based assignment?
Martin Prinzhorn (University of Vienna) and Joanna Śmiecińska (School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
On the placement of adnominal adjectives with complements: Evidence from Old English
Agnieszka Pysz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
On root-based concept of an electronic lexicon for Polish
Joanna Rabiega-Wiśniewska (Warsaw University)
The science and practice of LOUD: voice treatment for Parkinson disease
Lorraine Ramig (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna)
Time in Language and Music: The rhythm of speech, verse and vocal music in English and Spanish.
Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez (University of Edinburgh)
Typology of derivational reduplication in African languages
Fedor Rozhanskiy (Moscow)
Folk sayings in Southern Hemisphere Englishes
Agata Rozumko (University of Białystok)
Feature Geometry in Optimality Theory
Jerzy Rubach (University of Iowa/University of Warsaw)
The multi-dimensional feature-based dynamic model of the semantics of BNs
Ewa Rudnicka (University of Wrocław) and Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław University of Technology)
The line of division between procedural and representational management of interface information
Tobias Scheer (University of Nice)
Cruciality- a link between grammar and the outside world in Natural Phonology
Geoff Schwartz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Dynamic vowel quality – typology and phonological implications of ‘phonetic detail’
Geoff Schwartz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
On the nature of the foot of relative clause
Radek Šimík
IN, OF and ABOUT: Some unfinished reflections from South Asia
Rajendra Singh (Montreal)
Globalization, language and national identity: The case of Ireland
David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin)
Cognitive dimensions of stylistic novelty in Australian literary expression
Waldemar Skrzypczak (Toruń)
The stereotypical images of Native Americans in a variety of American texts from the 19th century
Paweł Stachura (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Andrea Steinbach (University of Regensburg)
Recognising senses of way for the purpose of machine translation
Tomasz Stępień (Wrocław University)
Phonology as human behavior: Theoretical implications and clinical applications
Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
The functional layers of DP and the morphology of Polish nominals
Barbara Tomaszewicz (Wrocław)
Non-finite verb fronting in South/West Slavic and Germanic
Takashi Toyoshima (Kyushu)
Towards a typology of bare indefinites: Russian and Thai
Olga Tretyakova (Moscow)
Representation formats and models for lexicons
Thorsten Trippel (Bielefeld)
Movement versus Merge: Stylistic and semantic perturbations versus neutral style
Helen Trugman (Holon Academic Institute of Technology)
Indeterministic tense operators and the concept of time as a substance
Kazimierz Trzęsicki (Białystok)
Mariusz Urbański (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Max Urchs (Szczecin University)
Are there really lexicalization patterns in motion verbs?
Bernhard Waelchli (Leipzig)
The Regensburg Parallel Corpus: a bootstrap multilingual parallel corpus of Slavonic
Ruprecht von Waldenfels (University of Regensburg)
The
recognition of southern hemisphere Englishes by Polish students of
English: A native-nonnative continuum approach
Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (Łódź) and Jarosław Weckwerth
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
The logical discipline of normative discourse
Jan Wawrzyniak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Feature valuation by sideward movement
Bartosz Wiland (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
The 'Directional+with+DP' construction and the empty verb GO
Chris Wilder (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)
Andrzej Wiśniewski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Standard dialect codified and written English established
Göran Wolf (Technische Universität Dresden)
Magdalena Wrembel (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Language communication and its adequacy
Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska (Poznań School of Banking) and Jacek Waldmajer (University of Opole)