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<div>Dear ALT members and other readers of LT,</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>LT is appearing triannually, with March/April, July/August, and
November/December as the three usual time windows where to expect an
issue. This year the first issue is a bit unusual (commemorating
10 years of LT: see below for the contents), a bit longer than
usual, and a bit longer in the coming too: it is currently at
the proof stage, and it should be out before the end of May.
With LT 11-2 we will be back at the usual cycle -- to come out in
July/August, in good time for ALT vii.</div>
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<div>On a different topic, further to an issue broached in the
editorial report in LT 10-3: While linguistics and many of its
journals, LT included, continue not to get a good deal from Thomson
Scientific, there are now three other comparative assessments of
scholarly journals in our discipline to draw on:</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>(i) the study of Nederhof et al (2001) reported on in
LT 10, 2006, p469;</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>(ii) an initiative of the Norwegian<font
face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"> Universitets- og
høgskolerådet (UHR)</font> of 2004, revised in 2006, for which see:
http://www.uhr.no/forskning/publiseringsutvalget/vitenskapelig_publis<span
></span>ering, http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>(iii) ERIH, the European Reference Index for the
Humanities, compiled under the auspices of the European Science
Foundation:</div>
<div
>http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/activities/research-inf<span
></span>rastructures.html</div>
<div
>http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/activities/research-inf<span
></span>rastructures/faq-sheet/scope-initial-lists.html</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>LT is doing well in all three ratings. Do continue to send
the good and topical stuff that has gotten LT such good marks.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Frans Plank</div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>LT 11-1
(2007)<br>
Contents<br>
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</b>Whither linguistic typology<br>
-<i> an und für sich</i> and in relation to other types of
linguistic pursuits?</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Preface<x-tab>
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Jae Jung Song</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">What or where can we
do better? Some personal reflections on (the tenth anniversary of)
Linguistic Typology<x-tab>
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Gilbert Lazard</font></div>
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Edith A. Moravcsik</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">What is universal
about typology?<x-tab>
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Frans Plank</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Extent and limits of
linguistic diversity as the remit of typology - but through
constraints on WHAT is diversity
limited?<x-tab>
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Michael Daniel</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Representative
sampling and typological explanation: A phenomenological
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
William Croft</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Typology and
linguistic theory in the past decade: A personal
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Guglielmo Cinque</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">A note on linguistic
theory and typology<x-tab>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Juliette Blevins</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">The importance of
typology in explaining recurrent sound
patterns<x-tab>
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Matthew Baerman and Greville G. Corbett</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Linguistic
typology: Morphology<x-tab>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Martin Haspelmath</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Pre-established
categories don't exist: Consequences for language description
and typology<x-tab>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Frederick J. Newmeyer</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Linguistic typology
requires crosslinguistic formal categories<x-tab>
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Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Martine Vanhove, and Peter Koch</font></div>
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approaches to lexical semantics<x-tab>
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Hilary Chappell, Li Ming, and Alain Peyraube</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Chinese linguistics
and typology: The state of the art<x-tab>
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Dan I. Slobin and Melissa Bowerman</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Interfaces between
linguistic typology and child language
research<x-tab>
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Larry M. Hyman, Johanna Nichols, and Lynn Nichols</font></div>
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linguistics: An appraisal of the field<x-tab>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Johanna Nichols</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">What, if anything,
is typology?<x-tab>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Balthasar Bickel</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Typology in the 21st
century: Major current
developments<x-tab>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Some speculation
about the reason for the lesser status of typology in the USA as
opposed to Europe<x-tab>
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Lynn Nichols</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Methodology and the
empirical base of typology<x-tab>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Larry M. Hyman</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Where's phonology
in typology?<x-tab>
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Maria Polinsky and Robert Kluender</font></div>
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and theory construction: Common challenges ahead<x-tab>
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Mark C. Baker and Jim McCloskey</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">On the relationship
of typology to theoretical syntax<x-tab>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Joan Bresnan</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">A few lessons from
typology<x-tab>
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