Jacek Fisiak - Curriculum vitae#

• M.A. in English, Warsaw, 1959
• University College, post-graduate non-degree student, London, 1961
• Ph.D. in English, Łódź, 1962
• University of California, post-doctoral Fulbright Fellow, Los Angeles, 1963-64
• D.Litt. in Germanic linguistics, Poznań, 1965
• Honorary doctorate, University of Jyvälskylä, Finland, 1983
• Honorary doctorate, University of Opole, 2005

Professional experience

• Assistant lecturer in English, University of Łódź, 1959-60
• Senior assistant lecturer in English, University of Łódź, 1960-63
• Adjunkt (American assistanr professor), University of Łódź, 1963-65
• Docent, University of Łódź, 1965-67
• Docent, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 1965-71
• Docent, University of Warsaw, 1966-68
• Visiting associate professor of linguistics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1970
• Professor extraordinarius of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 1971-1977
• Visiting disinguished professor of linguistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1974
• Visiting professor of English, State University of New York, College at Fredonia, 1975
• Professor ordinarius of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 1977-
• Visiting professor of linguistics, University of Kiel, West Germany, 1979
• Visiting professor of linguistics, The American University, Washington, D.C., 1979-80, 1991-92
• Visiting professor of English, University of Vienna, 1983, 1988, 1990-91
• Visiting professor of English, University of Zürich, 1984, 1994
• Visiting professor of English, University of Tromso, Norway, 1985
• Visiting professor of English, University of Jyvälskylä, Finland, 1987
• Visiting professor of English, University of Saarbrücken, West Germany, 1990, 1993
• Visiting research professor, University of Bamberg, 1994
• Professor, Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa, Konin, 1998-99
• Professor, Pomorska Akademia Pedagogiczna, Słupsk, 1998-2002
• Professor, Wyższa Szkoła Języków Obcych, Poznań, 2000-2004, 2005-
• Professor, Poznańska Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu i Języków Obcych, Poznań, 2004-2005
• Professor, Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna, Łódź, 2006

Other professional experience

• Head of English Department, Adam Mickiewicz University, 1965-69
• Head (Director) of School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, 1969-2005
• Head of English Language Department, Institute of English, Adam Mickiewicz Univeristy, 1969-2000
• Head of the Department of the History of English, Institute of English, Adam Mickiewicz Univeristy, 2000-2006
• Chairman of the Committee on English Studies in Poland, Ministry of Higher Education of Poland, 1971-89
• Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Language Handbooks, Ministry of Higher Education of Poland, 1965-73
• Chairman of Advisory Board of the Institute of Modern Languages, University of Silesia, Katowice, 1975-79
• Chairman of Advisory Committee on Modern Languages and Literatures, Ministry of Higher Education of Poland, 1971-89
• Member of the Committee on the Modernization of University Education in Poland, Ministry of Higher Education of Poland, 1971-73
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Polish Language Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, 1973-77
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Research Institute on Poles Abroad, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, 1974-77
• Member of the Academic Senate, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 1970-73
• Coordinator of Exchange Programmes with English Speaking Countries, Ministry of Higher Education of Poland, 1973-75
• Special Representative of the Vice-Chancellor of Adam Mickiewicz University for Exchange Programmes with English Speaking Countries, 1974-75
• Director, Poznań - Kansas Exchange Program, 1970-73
• Director, Poznań - Florida Exchange Program, 1973-91
• Director, Poznań - SUNY Exchange Program, 1974-91
• Director, Polish-English Contrastive Project, 1971-98
• Director, Project on Preparation and Dissemination of Abstracts and Full Translations of Selected Contents of East *European Journals Concerned with Applied Linguistics, U.S. Office of Education - Adam Mickiewicz University, 1973-74
• Director, Adam Mickiewicz University - Center for Applied Linguistics Cooperation Program, 1971-80
• Chairman, English Language Contest for Polish Secondary School Students, 1976-
• Member of the Linguistics Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1978-81, 1993-2002
• Member of Disciplinary Commission for Professors of the Academic Senate, 1978-81
• Corresponding Member, Research Centre on Multilingualism, Brussels, 1982
• Chairman, Publications Committee of Adam Mickiewicz University, 1982-84
• Vice-Chancellor (President, Rektor) of Adam Mickiewicz University, 1985-88
• Member, International Association of University Presidents, Vice Chancellors and Rectors, 1986
• Chairman of the Committee on Modern Languages and Literatures, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1981-1993
• Member of the Committee on Modern Languages and Literatures, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1968-2002
• Member, Advisory Committee to the Minister of National Education, 1988, 1993-2001
• Minister of National Education of Poland, 1988-89
• President, Polish-British Friendship Society, 1989-2006
• Chairman, Board of Trustees, Foreign Language Teaching Foundation "Lingua Mundi", 1989
• Member, International Association of University Presidents/United Nations Commission on Arms Control Education, 1991
• Chairman, Examination Board for Senior Civil Servants in Poland (modern languages), 1997-98
• Member, Board of Trustees, Wydawnictwo Kurpisz, 1999-2004
• Associate member, International Medieval Institute, University of Leeds, U.K., 1999
• Member, International Medieval Institute, University of Leeds, IK., 1999
• Head of English Department, Wyższa Szkoła Języków Obcych, Poznań, 2000 .
• Head of English Department, Poznańska Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu i Języków Obcych, Poznań, 2004-2005.
• Director, Institute of Linguistics, Wyższa Szkoła Humanistycano-Ekonomiczna, Łódź, 2006- .
• Head, Post-graduate Programme in English and professor, Wyższa Szkoła Języków Obcych, Poznań, 2006- .
• Member, Scientific Council (Advisory) , Polish Language Institute, Polish Acadaemy of Sciences, Cracow, 2004.
• Member, Scientific (Advisory) Council, The Kórnik Library, polish Academy of Sciences, Kórnik, 2007.

Professional organizations

• Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawcze (Polish Linguistic Society), 1959-
• Linguistic Society of America, 1961- (life member 2002)
• International Linguistic Association, 1963-1980
• Societas Linguistica Europaea, 1967-
• International Association of University Professors of English, 1967-
• Linguistics Association of Great Britain, 1969-
• Modern Language Association of Poland, 1969- (honorary life member 1979)
• Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes, 1970-
• International Society of Phonetic Sciences, 1973-
• Poznań Learned Society, 1976-
• Canadian Linguistic Association, 1976-1986
• Nordic Society of Linguistics, 1977-1990
• International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, 1977-
• International Society for Historical Linguistics, 1977
• Polish Phonetic Association, 1979-
• Philological Society, Oxford, 1980-
• Stowarzyszenie Tłumaczy Polskich (Association of Polish Translators and Interpreters), 1980-
• New Society of Letters (Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund), 1981-
• Association Internationale pour Recherche et la Diffusion des Méthodes Audio-Visuelles et Structuro-Globales, 1981-1990
• Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawstwa Stosowanego (Polish Applied Linguistics Association), 1982-
• The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, Oxford, 1984-
• Early English Text Society, Oxford, 1984-
• English Place-Name Society, Nottingham, 1984
• International Association of University Presidents, 1986-
• Society of Polish Authors, 1988-
• International Cognitive Linguistics Association, 1989-
• Polish Association for the Study of English, 1990-
• International Society of Dialectology and Geolinguistics, 1990-
• American Dialect Society, 1991
• Medieval Academy of America, New York, 2001
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York, 2001
• Agdar Vitenskapsakademi, Kristiansand, 2003
• Rada Redakcyjna czasopisma Science and Society organu Europejskiej Akademii Umiejętności w Paryżu

Other organizations, societies, clubs, etc.

• Polish-British Friendship Society, President (1989-2001)
• Polish-German Friendship Society (1989)
• Polish-Finnish Friendship Society (1984)
• Rotary Club (1990), President 1995-96
• Polish Fulbright Alumni Association (1995)

Guest lectures

• University of Arizona, Tucson 1964
• University of New Mexico 1964
• University of Texas, El Paso 1964
• University of Texas, Austin 1964
• Institute of Polish Culture, New York 1964
• Salford University 1969
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles 1970
• Guelph University, Canada 1970
• Zagreb University 1970
• Lund University (Sweden) 1972, 1981
• University of Kansas, Lawrence 1973
• Wesleyan State University, Bloomington, Ill. 1972
• University of Louvain, Belgium 1973, 1977
• Antwerp Trade Academy, Belgium 1973
• University of Trier 1974, 1977, 1978, 1985, 1990
• University of Saarbrücken 1974, 1977, 1985, 1993
• Technical University Aachen 1974, 1985, 1999
• University of Florida, Gainesville 1974
• SUNY - Fredonia 1975
• University of Toronto 1975
• York University, Ontario 1975
• University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1975
• San Francisco State University 1975
• Saginaw Valley State College, Michigan 1975
• University of Paris IV - Sorbonne 1976, 1989
• University of Turku, Finland 1977
• Abo Akademi, Finland 1977
• University of Jyväskylä, Finland 1977, 1982, 1984, 1987
• University of Oulu, Finland 1977
• University of Helsinki 1977, 1982, 1984
• Utrecht University 1977
• University Centre, Luxemburg 1977
• Stuttgart University 1977, 1979, 1985, 1995
• University of Vienna 1978, 1981, 1982, 1992
• Salzburg University 1978
• Debrecen University, Hungary 1978
• University of Sussex 1979
• University of Jordan, Amman 1979, 1996
• University of Kiel 1979, 1990
• University of Paderborn 1979, 1990
• The American University, Washington, D.C. 1980, 1992
• University of Delaware 1980
• University of Pittsburgh 1980
• SUNY at Stony Brook 1980
• University of Budapest 1980
• University of Giessen 1980, 1985, 1999
• University of Uppsala 1981
• University of Stockholm 1981
• University of Göteborg 1981
• University of Copenhagen 1981, 1988
• Copenhagen School of Economics 1981, 1988
• University of Oslo 1981
• University of Zürich 1981, 1984
• University of Tromso, Norway 1982, 1985, 1995
• Catholic University, Eichstädt 1982
• University of Passau 1982
• University of Bamberg 1982, 1985, 1994, 1999
• University of Erlangen 1982
• University of Edinburgh 1983
• University of Munich 1983, 1999
• University of Amiens 1984
• University of Lille III 1984
• University of Graz 1984
• Freie Universität Berlin 1984
• University of Lausanne 1984
• University of Hannover 1984
• Catholic University of Nijmegen 1985
• University of Marburg 1986, 1995
• University of Essen 1986, 1995
• University of Bonn 1986
• University of Cologne 1986, 1993, 1999
• University College Galway, Ireland 1986
• University College Dublin 1986
• Fudan University, Shanghai, China 1988
• Arhus School of Economics 1988
• Alborg University 1988
• University of Odense 1988
• University of Strathclyde 1989 (Polonia lecture)
• University College, University of London 1990
• Philological Society, London 1991
• Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 1991
• Michigan State University 1991
• Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti 1991
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1991
• Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C. 1992
• Georgetown University 1992
• The Washington Linguistic Club 1992
• Coastal Carolina University, Conway, S.C. 1992, 1996
• Cambridge University 1993
• University of Freiburg i. B., 1993
• University of Regensburg 1995
• University of Düsseldorf 1995
• Seoul National University 1995
• Tokyo Metropolitan University 1995
• University of Tokyo 1995
• Seikei University, Tokyo 1995
• University of Hiroshima 1995
• Seikan Gakuin University, Fukuoka 1995
• Kyoto Sangyo University 1995
• UCLA, Los Angeles, 1996
• Ostrava University, 1997
• University of Minnesota, Mineapolis, 1998
• University of Innsbruck, 1999
• Australian National University, Canberra, 2001
• Hiroshima University, 2003
• Kansai University, Osaka, 2003
• Seijo University, Tokyo, 2003
• Linguistics Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2004
• University of Opole, 2004
• University of Lviv (Lvov), 2004

Editorial

• Editor, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies, 1967
• Editor, Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1972-99
• Editor, Folia Linguistica Historica, 1978-2003
• Member of editorial board, Glottodidactica: An International Review of Applied Linguistics, 1965
• Member of editorial board, Lingua Posnaniensis, 1969
• Member of editorial board, Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny, 1973
• Member of editorial board, International Review of Slavic Linguistics, Edmonton, Canada, 1975-86
• Member of editorial board, Linguistica Silesiana, 1976
• Member of editorial board, Applied Linguistics, Oxford University Press, 1978-86
• Member of editorial board, Historiographia Linguistica, Amsterdam, 1979-90
• Member of editorial board, World Language English, 1981-84
• Member of editorial board of the series Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, J. Benjamins B.V., Amsterdam, 1982-2003
• Member of editorial board, Modeles linguistiques, Lille, 1982
• Member of editorial board, Diachronica: International Journal for Historical Linguistics, Ottawa, 1982-99
• Member of editorial board, Glossologia, Athens, 1983
• Member of editorial board, English World-Wide, Amsterdam, 1983-98
• Member of editorial board, Folia Linguistica, Vienna, 1983
• Member of editorial board, D.I.S.C.O.S.S., Paris, 1984
• Member of editorial board, Second Language Research, London, 1985-2001
• Member of editorial board, Journal of Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, 1985
• Consulting editor, Linguistics Abstracts, Oxford, 1985-2000
• Member of editorial board, Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica ed Applicata, Rome, 1988
• Member of editorial board, Great Dictionary of Contemporary Polish, Warsaw, 1988
• Member of editorial board, Voprosy Yazykoznanya, Moscow, 1988-98
• Member of editorial board, Studia Indogermanica, Łódź, 1989
• Member of editorial board, Contrastive Linguistics, Sofia, 1990
• Member of editorial board, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Tromso, 1991
• Member of editorial board, Western Affairs, Poznań, 1991
• Member of editorial board, EFL News Ireland, 1993
• Member of editorial board, Dialectologia et Geolinguistica, Bamberg, 1997
• Member of editorial board, Languages in Contrast, Amsterdam, 1998
• Editor (series) Polish Studies in English Language and Literature. Frankfurt/M and New York: P. Lang Verlag, 1998
• Editor (series) Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature. Frankfurt/M and New York: P. Lang Verlag, 1998.
• Chairman, The Central Europe Advisory Committee, Encyclopedia Britanica, Chicago, 1999
• Member of editorial board, Studies in English Language and Linguistics, Valencia, 1999
• Member of advisory editorial board, International Journal of English-Arabic Studies, Amman (Jordan), 2000

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

• 10th FIPLV Congress, Zagreb, 1968
• NAFSA Convention, Kansas City, 1970
• 1st International Conference of Contrastive Projects, Zagreb, 1970
• 8th IAUPE Conference, Istanbul, 1971
• Error Analysis Conference, Lund, 1972
• 2nd International Conference of Contrastive Projects, Bucarest, 1975
• Annual IATEFL Conference, London, 1978
• International Conference on English Studies, Debrecen, 1978
• 3rd International Conference of Contrastive Projects, Trier, 1978
• MLA of Great Britain Annual Meeting, Brighton, 1979
• 11th IAUPE Conference, Aberdeen, 1980
• 12th FIPLV Congress, Ibadan, 1981
• International Conference on Teaching English in Arab Universities, Amman, 1982
• Symposium on the History of English Studies in Europe, Wildsteig, Augsburg, 1982
• 5th International Conference of Contrastive Projects, Jyväskylä, 1982
• Fifteenth Century Symposium, Regensburg, 1982
• Annual Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting, Athens, 1982
• Annual Meeting of Verband Deutscher Anglisten, Zürich, 1982
• International Round Table on Historical Linguistics, Lille, 1982
• Colloque Inter-langues, Paris, 1983
• 17th International IATEFL Conference, London, 1983
• Annual Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting, Poznań, 1983
• International Conference on Less Widely Taught Languages in Europe, Thessaloniki, 1984
• 4th International Conference on Historical English Linguistics, Amsterdam, 1985
• International K. Luick Symposium, Vienna, 1985
• 24th Congress of Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1987
• 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, 1987
• Graduate Symposium on English Studies in Finland, Lammi, 1987
• 17th All-Russian Congress on Education, Moscow, 1988
• 25th Congress of Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, Sydney, 1989
• Triennial IAUPE Conference, Lausanne, 1989
• Cultuur zonder Grensen, University of Groningen, 1990
• International Congress of Dialectology, Bamberg, 1990
• 1991 RELC Regional Seminar, Singapore, 1991
• International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Innsbruck, 1991
• Annual Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting, Kiel, 1991
• Interdisciplinary Linguistic Symposium on Language Variation, California State University, Fullerton, 1992
• 7th International Conference on Historical English Linguistics, Valencia, 1992
• Annual Meeting of Verband Deutscher Anglisten, Stuttgart, 1992
• 3rd International Conference of the English Teaching Association of Israel, Jerusalem, 1993
• 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Edinburgh, 1994
• Annual PASE Conference, Popowo, 1994
• 1st International Conference on Language Contact, Valencia, 1995
• Annual Conference of University Teachers of English Language and Literature, Cheju University, Korea, 1995
• Kyoto Conference on English Historical Linguistics and Philology, Doshisha University, Kyoto, 1995
• 13th National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, 1995
• XIX Congreso Internacional da Asociación Espanola de Estudios Anglonort-americanos, Vigo, 1995
• Annual PASE Conference, Łódź, 1996
• 29th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting, Klagenfurt, 1996
• 1st International Conference on Arabic-English Contrastive and Comparative Studies, Amman, 1997
• European British and American Studies at the Turn of Millenium, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 1999
• IATEFL Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, 1999
• 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2000
• Medieval Literature, Languages and Culture: A Symposium in Memory of Professor Margaret Schlauch, Poznań, 2002
• IATEFL Poland, Wrocław, 2003
• International Conference on Integration of Teaching Foreign Languages, MLA Poland, Zielona Góra, 2003
• Editing Early English Texts, Tokyo University, 2003
• 21st National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 2003

Organizer of international conferences and congresses

• 1st International Conference of Anglicists (linguists) from Socialist Countries, Poznań, 1967
• 1st International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Karpacz, 1970
• 2nd International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Karpacz, 1971
• 4th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Kazimierz, 1973
• 5th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Ustronie, 1973
• Annual Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting, Poznań, 1973
• 6th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Kazimierz, 1974
• 8th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Ustronie, 1975
• 9th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Lubostronie, 1976
• International Conference on Historical Phonology, Ustronie, 1976
• 10th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Białowieża, 1976
• Xth Triennial Congress of IAUPE, Poznań, 1977
• 12th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Boszkowo, 1977
• International Conference on Historical Morphology, Boszkowo, 1978
• 14th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Tleń, 1978
• 15th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Boszkowo, 1978
• 16th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Boszkowo, 1979
• 3rd Overseas IATFL Conference, Poznań, 1979
• 4th International Conference of Contrastive Projects, Charzykowy, 1980
• International Conference on Historical Syntax, Błażejewko, 1981
• 17th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Błażejewko, 1981
• 18th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Błażejewko, 1982
• 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 1983
• Annual Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting, Poznań, 1983
• 19th International English-Polish Contrastive Conference, Błażejewko, 1983
• International Conference on Historical Semantics and Word Formation, Błażejewko, 1984
• 20th International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Błażejewko, 1984
• 21st International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Błażejewko, 1985
• International Conference on Historical Dialectology, Błażejewko, 1986
• 22nd International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Turawa, 1986
• 23rd International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Błażejewko, 1987
• International Conference on Historical Linguistics and Philology, Błażejewko, 1988
• International Conference on the Biology of Language, Czerniejewo, 1988
• 24th International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Błażejewko, 1989
• 25th International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Rydzyna, 1990
• International Conference on Language Contact and Linguistic Change, Rydzyna, 1991
• 26th International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Rydzyna, 1992
• International Conference on Typology and Linguistic Reconstruction, Rydzyna, 1993
• 27th International Conference on Cross-Linguistic Analysis, Rydzyna, 1993
• International Conference on Middle English, Rydzyna, 1994
• 28th International Conference on Cross-Linguistic Analysis, Rydzyna, 1994
• Annual PASE Conference, Poznań, 1995
• 29th International Conference on Cross-Linguistic Analysis, Świeradów, 1995
• International Conference on Historical Phonology, Ślesin, 1996
• 9th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 1996
• Annual Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting, Poznań, 2000
• Medieval Literature, Languages and Cultures: A Symposium in Memory of Professor Margaret Schlauch, Poznań, 2002
• Annual PASE Conference, Tarnowo Podgórne, 2004

Honours

• Honorary Doctorate, University of Jyväskylä, 1983
• Minister of Higher Education of Poland Award (2nd degree) for outstanding D.Litt. dissertation, 1966
• Minister of Higher Education of Poland Award (2nd degree) for outstanding results in research, the organization of research and teaching, 1969
• Ford Foundation research fellowship. UCLA, 1970
• University of Jyväskylä Medal (Finland) for promoting international scholarly activities, 1974
• Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Poland Award (3rd degree) for outstanding research results, 1974
• Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst grant to visit selected West German universities, 1971, 1979
• Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Poland Award (1st degree) for outstanding results in supervising Ph.D. programmes, 1977
• President, International Association of University Professors of English, 1974-77
• Vice-President, Societas Linguistica Europaea (Linguistic Society of Europe), 1973-74
• Vice-President, Modern Language Association of Poland, 1969-73
• President, Modern Language Association of Poland, 1973-79
• Member of Presidium of the Committee on Modern Languages and Literature, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1969-1993
• Member of the Prime Minister's Committee on Academic Appointments and Promotions in Poland, 1976-87, 1994-2000, 2003-2006.
• Vice-Chairman, Committee on Modern Languages and Literature, Poznań Chapter, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1973-77
• Chairman, Committee on Modern Languages and Literature, Poznań Chapter, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1977-82
• Vice-Chairman, Committee on Modern Languages and Literature, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1978-81
• Vice-Chairman, Polish Applied Linguistics Committee, 1972-81
• Delegate to the Second Polish Congress of Sciences, Warsaw, 1973
• Senior research fellow, Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, 1975
• Member of the National Council of Science, Higher Education and Technology, 1977-82
• Abo Akademi Medal (Finland) for promoting Polish-Finnish scientific co-operation, 1977
• Assistant Secretary General, FIPLV, 1977-80
• Vice-Chairman, Committee on Contrastive Linguistics, Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée, 1977
• University of Louvain Medal, 1978
• Vice-President, International Society for Historical Linguistics, 1979-81
• Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Poland Award (2nd degree) for outstanding research results, 1979
• Honorary life member, Modern Language Association of Poland, 1979
• Member, International Consultative Committee, International Association of University Professors of English, 1977-92
• Secretary General, FIPLV, 1980-83
• President, International Society for Historical Linguistics, 1981-83
• Member of Bureau, Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée, 1981-84
• Chairman, Committee on Modern Languages and Literatures, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1981-93
• President, Societas Linguistica Europaea, 1983
• Governor of Poznań Province's prize for outstanding results in the area of research, 1982
• Vice-President, Societas Linguistica Europaea, 1984
• Member of the Executive Committee, International Society for Historical Linguistics, 1983-85
• Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Poland Award (1st degree) for outstanding research results, 1984
• University of Heidelberg Medal, 1986
• Minister of Higher Education and Science Award (1st degree) for outstanding results in the area of academic administration, 1986
• University of Salzburg Medal, 1987
• Medal of Merit of Mexico City, 1987
• Medal of the University of Helsinki, 1987
• Medal of the University of Brno 1987
• Minister of Higher Education and Science Award (1st degree) for outstanding results in the area of academic administration, 1987
• Medal of the University of Yarmouk (Jordan), 1988
• Medal of the University of Jordan, Amman, 1988
• Minister of National Education Award (1st degree) for outstanding results in the area of academic administration, 1988
• Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1990
• Member of Academia Europaea, 1990
• Member of the Board of Trustees, The Copernicus Foundation, Warsaw, 1992
• Member of the Board of Trustees, The Tolstoy Foundation, Moscow, 1993
• Visiting Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1995
• Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, 1996
• Member of New York Academy of Sciences, 1996
• Prime Minister of Poland's Prize for Outstanding Research Results, 1996
• Minister of National Education Award for outstanding research results, 1997
• Medal of Adam Mickiewicz University (80th Anniversary), 1999
• Member of Medieval Academy of America, New York, 2001
• Life member, Linguistic Society of America, 2002
• Member of National Accreditation Committee, 2002-2007
• Chairman, Advisory Committee to the Minister of National Education, 2002
• Member of the Committee on European Education, 2002-2005
• Chairman, Humanities Section, State Accreditation Committee, 2004-2007
• Member of the Polish Academy of Science, 2004
• Minister of National Education's Award for outstanding reserch results , 2004
• Minister of Higher Education and Science’s Award for outstanding research results, 2006
• Minister of Higher Education and Science’s Award for outstanding results in academic administration, 2007
• Member ( Titular) of Academie Europeenne des Sciences, des Artes at des Lettres, Paris, 2007
• Member of the Polish Language Council (2007)

Decorations

• Medal of the Committee of National Education, 1977
• Badge of Merit of the City of Bydgoszcz, 1978
• Badge of Merit of the City of Poznań, 1978
• Badge of Merit of the Province of Poznań, 1979
• Gold Badge of the Teachers' Union of Poland, 1979
• Knight's Cross of the Order "Polonia Restituta", 1979
• Commander's Cross of the Order "Lion of Finland", 1980
• Order of the British Empire, Officer's Class (O.B.E.), 1981
• Medal "40 Years of People's Poland", 1987
• Commander's Cross of the Order "Polonia Restituta", 1987
• Officer's Cross of the Order "Palmes Académiques", 1989
• Badge of Merit of the Province of Białystok, 1996
• Commander's Cross with Star of the Order "Polonia Restituta", 1996
• Medal of Merit of the Wielkopolska Province, 2002
• Medal "Pro Perpetuam Rei Memoriam", 2004
• Grand Cross of the Order "Polonia Restituta", 2005