Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science (for developing the theory of the natural semantic metalanguage and discovering a set of elementary meanings common to all languages, 2010)
doutor honoris causa da Universidade de Varsóvia (2006)
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1996)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1988)
honorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (2004)