<div><div>Dear colleagues.</div><div> </div><div><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;float:none;font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">I am writing as, alongside Andrea Sims and Richard Huyghe, one of the co-editors of <a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/journal/word">Word Structure</a>, an international peer-reviewed journal of morphology, published by Edinburgh University Press on a subscribe-to-open basis.</span><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" /><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" /><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;float:none;font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Word Structure publishes research articles that make a substantial contribution to understanding of linguistic morphology, meaning a theoretical, empirical, methodological, and/or typological contribution on a morphological topic that is likely to be of interest to a morphologist audience.</span><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" /><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" /><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;float:none;font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">I would like to specifically draw the attention of typologists and field linguists to the fact that, in addition to full-length articles, our journal also solicits shorter research articles of the “field report” type. Such contributions should be based on primary fieldwork data (elicited and/or spontaneous) and offer a typologically- and/or theoretically-informed description of specific morphological phenomena of underdocumented languages or varieties. The aim of such papers is to broaden the empirical domain of morphological theory by presenting novel and potentially challenging data. Submissions of this kind are not expected to offer a theoretical account of the phenomena they describe within any particular morphological framework, however, they should present a solid and coherent analysis of the data accessible to morphologists of any persuasion, and should make it clear in which way the phenomena in question are interesting and how they might bear on the agenda of morphological theory and typology.</span><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" /><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" /><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;float:none;font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Short-format articles are generally 3,000-6,000 words in length.</span><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" /><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" /><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;float:none;font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">For more information, please, consult the journal's website: </span><a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/journal/word/submit" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb( 0 , 102 , 204 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">https://www.euppublishing.com/journal/word/submit</a><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" /><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;float:none;font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">The latest issue is available here (open access): </span><a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/word/current" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb( 0 , 102 , 204 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/word/current</a><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" /><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" /><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;float:none;font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Please, feel free to address any queries and send your submissions to me at </span><a rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb( 0 , 102 , 204 );font-family:'calibri' , 'calibri' , 'arial';font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">alpgurev@gmail.com</a> (please, do NOT respond to this message directly, since I only use this address for mailing lists) as well as to my fellow co-editors.</div><div> </div><div>We are looking forward to your submissions -- now and, hopefully, in the years to come.</div><div> </div><div>On behalf of the editors,</div><div> </div><div>Peter</div></div><div> </div><div>-- </div><div>Peter Arkadiev, PhD Habil.</div><div>https://peterarkadiev.github.io/</div><div> </div>