The Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) is an annual general linguistics conference that continues the tradition of the Polish–English contrastive conferences started by Prof. Jacek Fisiak in 1970. The name "Poznań Linguistic Meeting" was adopted in 1997, when Prof. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk took over as the Head of the Organising Committee. The Meetings are hosted by the AMU Faculty of English.

The 46th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2016) will be held on 15–17 September 2016 in Poznań. The leitmotif will be "Linguistics and data: A fresh look". In view of the rapid growth of available data, both in terms of its types and range, we will try to address the fundamental issue of the nature of linguistic data as well as the resulting theoretical and methodological challenges.

PLM2016 has the honorary patronage of the Mayor of Poznań.

Confirmed talks include:

Keynote: Daniel Everett (Bentley University), Homo erectus and the semiotic progression

Plenary: Przemysław Tajsner (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), On the alleged bankruptcy of armchair linguistics: Reassessing the data base for generative syntax

Plenary: Jóhanna Barðdal (Ghent University), To Be or Not to Be an Oblique Subject – That is the Question

Plenary: Russell Gray (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History), TBC.

Special events

As has become our tradition in the recent years, there will be a debate related to the leitmotif. The confirmed discussants are (in alphabetic order): Jóhanna Barðdal (Ghent University), Daniel Everett (Bentley University), Piotr Gąsiorowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Russell Gray (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena), Przemysław Tajsner (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Peter Trudgill (University of Agder) and Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Łódź).