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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Such a journal would be of great interest. If I can help, let me know.<BR>
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Graham Thurgood<BR>
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On 1/17/10 12:11 PM, "Domenec Mendez" <<a href="domenec.mendeth@gmail.com">domenec.mendeth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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just chipping in with my 10 cents for this new publication.<BR>
good luck to everybody.<BR>
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Domenec <BR>
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From: <B>Joseph Salmons</B> <<a href="jsalmons@wisc.edu">jsalmons@wisc.edu</a>><BR>
Date: Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:09 PM<BR>
Subject: Re: [Histling-l] eLanguage and historical linguistics<BR>
To: Claire Bowern <<a href="claire.bowern@yale.edu">claire.bowern@yale.edu</a>><BR>
Cc: histling-l <<a href="histling-l@mailman.rice.edu">histling-l@mailman.rice.edu</a>><BR>
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Thanks, Claire, for raising this. <BR>
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Speaking as the editor of one of the few existing journals dedicated to language change, I personally would welcome the development of a new e-journal and/or print journal in the field. Yes, we at Diachronica are being pretty much overwhelmed with submissions, far more than we can publish, and this is generally work of high quality -- it's material that deserves to be out there.<BR>
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The new LabPhon journal might be one model for how to move forward, and it's consistent with what you suggest. I don't know exactly, but I believe they assembled a committee to discuss things, develop a focus, work with possible publishers, etc. Agreeing to join a group of 10-12 people would be less taxing than taking the lead alone. (I don't have time to lead the effort either -- thanks to the traffic at Diachronica, largely -- but I'd appreciate at least knowing what's happening.)<BR>
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A key issue will be finding the right focus -- something that differentiates any new journal sufficiently from Diachronica, FLH and other outlets. For instance, at Diachronica, if a paper doesn't make a pretty directly theoretical contribution to understanding language change (along with careful empirical angles, of course), its chances of acceptance drop dramatically. It would be great to have a general historical journal that doesn't insist on that -- where a good analysis of historical data would be welcome on its own terms. <BR>
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Another issue may be that some might have concerns about creating an e-journal (such as eLanguage) rather than a print journal, but that too could presumably be talked through. <BR>
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Let's hope your message will generate some discussion on the list about how to move forward.<BR>
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Joe<BR>
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On Jan 17, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Claire Bowern wrote:<BR>
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I'd like to bring histling subscribers' attention to the LSA's eLanguage cojournal site (<a href="http://elanguage.net/">http://elanguage.net/</a>). eLanguage is set up as a set of "cojournals" (that is, independent journals with their own editorial boards and referee process), but with a single web host and related infrastructure. <BR>
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It would be great if historical linguistics had its own cojournal. Some informal discussions I've had would indicate that there's considerable interest in a new historical journal, that the current outlets for historical journal publications have no shortage of quality submissions and that a new publication would not hurt them, and that it would be a good way to raise the profile of our field.<BR>
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Would someone be interested in taking this on? Information about proposing a cojournal can be found here: <a href="http://elanguage.net/propose.php">http://elanguage.net/propose.php</a> Perhaps a small group of histling subscribers would be interested in getting together to put a proposal together? (note, I'm not volunteering; unfortunately, I just don't have the time.)<BR>
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Claire<BR>
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