Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting
Focus and Scope The Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting (YPLM) carries selected papers based on presentations at the Poznań Linguistic Meeting, a leading European linguistics conference. About the journal Current issue Archives Indexed in: Arianta; Baidu Scholar; CEJSH (The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities); CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure); CNPIEC - cnpLINKer; CROSSREF; Dimensions; EBSCO (relevant databases); EBSCO Discovery Service; ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences); Google Scholar; <a href="https://ezb.ur.de/searchres.phtml?altcha=eyJhbGdvcml0aG0iOiJTSEEtMjU2IiwiY2hhbGxlbmdlIjoiM2M4Zjc1NWE4MzQxOGY2NjA5ZDMyOGYxZTZjOGZlZWJjN2Y0MGY4YjRiMGVkOTkzOTgyM2YxZWY5ZmYzZjQyYSIsIm51bWJlciI6NTAzMCwic2FsdCI6Imo3aDhsOUNhOWY%2FZXhwaXJlcz0xNzUwMTYzNTU0Iiwic2lnbmF0dXJlIjoiMTQyMmIzNzZlMGIwZDgwZGQxMTBlMjMwM2NjZWNmNGE4ZWE3NGI2ZDNhMTc4MDg5NzUyNjk2NzE1ZDgxOTE3ZSIsInRvb2siOjIwN30%3D&lang=en&jq_type1=IS&jq_term1=2449-7525">EZB; J-Gate; JournalTOCs; KESLI-NDSL; (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders); Linguistic Bibliography; Linguistics Abstracts Online; MLA International Bibliography; MyScienceWork; Naviga (Softweco); Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers; OPENALEX; Primo Central (ExLibris); ProQuest (relevant databases); Publons; QOAM (Quality Open Access Market); ReadCube; ROAD; Semantic Scholar; Summon (ProQuest); TDNet; Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb; THE KEEPERS; WanFang Data; WIKIDATA; WorldCat (OCLC); ZDB Journal metrics Ministry of Education and Science (2024): 20 DOI: 10.14746//yplm ISSN: 2449-7525 All articles published in YPLM are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. DATA ARCHIVING The PRESSto platform digitally preserves the content of this journal using the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), which provides digital long-term preservation of data and secured access to the content of the journal. The journal Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting complies with the I40C standards for open citations. Publisher: Adam Mickiewicz University. Poznań
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The power of Natural Linguistics: Four levels of increasingly persuasive evidence for its superiority over other linguistic theories
This paper argues for the theoretical and explanatory superiority of Natural Linguistics (NatLing) over other linguistic models, presenting four ascending levels of evidence. The first level examines successful analyses of specific topics such as poetic occasionalisms, diminutives, and plural formation. The second level highlights innovative phenomena uniquely developed within NatLing, including phonotactics, morphosemantic transparency, and pragmatic variation in diminutives. The third level introduces novel subdisciplines—morphonotactics and morphopragmatics—demonstrating their wide empirical and theoretical impact across languages and acquisition studies. The highest level presents phenomena explainable only within NatLing, notably children’s strong blind-alley developments in morphology and syntax, which defy both generative and usage-based accounts. By integrating principles of iconicity, pragmatics, and self-organization, the paper concludes that Natural Linguistics provides the most comprehensive, cognitively grounded, and empirically productive framework for understanding linguistic structure, change, and acquisition.
Copyright (c) 2025 Wolfgang U. Dressler https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Cognitive theories in self-transcreation studies: Conceptual equivalence in Tagore’s Bengali and English poems
This paper explores the application of cognitive methodologies, Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and Conceptual Integration Theory (CIT) in the analysis of cultural equivalence attained in the process of transcreation on the example of Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali and English poems. CMT tools allow for the re-creation of conceptual interrelations between the Bengali source text and the English target text, which reveals that the metaphorical context in the transcreated version is equivalent. CIT schemas complement cognitive analysis by reconstructing the thought process behind transcreation and revealing a consistent transcreation framework. Examples of the interdependence of CMT and CIT in the reconstruction of conceptual processes are the Bengali metaphorical blends yāōẏā āsā, ‘going-coming’ and khelā melā, ‘game/play-fair/assemblage’, integrated and transformed through the transcreation medium, the hide-and-seek metaphorical blend, into conceptually equivalent context in the target text. The analysis reveals a process of conceptual integration in which the source context is expressed through a transcreation medium, a metaphorical tool recognizable in the target culture, to convey an aesthetically and semantically equivalent message in the target text. CMT and CIT allow for efficient examination of the transcreation process, with the prerequisite that conceptual contexts are approached intertextually.
Copyright (c) 2025 Joanna Tuczyńska https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Possible and probable errors in child language
This paper investigates the implications of Blind Alley Developments (BADs, Dressler et al. 2020) – ephemeral, systematic errors in early child productions – for a theory of language acquisition. I argue that a sufficient theory of acquisition should not simply allow for BADs, but rather should precisely account for the timeline and content of these errors in terms of the learning mechanisms that the child employs; in other words, it should be a learning theory. I present such an account, which draws on the complementary approaches of the Tolerance Principle (Payne & Yang 2023) and Natural Morphology (Dressler et al. 2020). This account provides both a formalization of the timeline of BADs – in terms of a calibration of productivity over the learner’s internal vocabulary – and predictions regarding the expected types of BAD constructions. I provide applications of this account to both weak BADs – which involve the use of an incorrect form that nevertheless marks the correct target function – and strong BADs – which involve the use of a form never used for the target function in the learner’s input.
Copyright (c) 2025 Sarah Brogden Payne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Foreign lexical items in the lexicon of the Karaim language
The focus of this article is on a comprehensive etymological lexical analysis of the Karaim language as a whole and its dialects. While the practice of at least partially examining entire foreign elements within a specific language is relatively common nowadays (cf. Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009), Karaim has so far avoided this kind of comprehensive research with the literature focused around Zajączkowski (1959, 1961) and Jankowski (2013, 2015) providing papers focused either on diachronic development of specific loanwords or a basic general overview of the situation. The article, despite presenting only preliminary results of the analysis, aims to provide a more in-depth examination of the historical development and synchronic composition of the Karaim lexicon. The results indicate a pattern of distribution of loanwords among semantic classes seen in other languages, confirm the expected distribution of borrowings among semantic fields, clearly point out the lexical differences between West and East Karaim, and also show that the composition follows a pattern concerning the adoption of Hebrew and Slavic loanwords similar to that observable in the lexicon of Yiddish (Foltýn 2022). Despite the preliminary character of the results, they offer direct insight into the inner workings of the language’s lexicon.
Copyright (c) 2025 Matyáš Foltýn https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0