22.3584, Calls: Historical Ling, Syntax/ Journal of Historical Syntax (Jrnl)

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Subject: 22.3584, Calls: Historical Ling, Syntax/ Journal of Historical Syntax (Jrnl)

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Date: 14-Sep-2011
From: George Walkden [gw249 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Journal of Historical Syntax
 

	
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From: George Walkden [gw249 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Journal of Historical Syntax

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Full Title: Journal of Historical Syntax 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 

The all-new Journal of Historical Syntax (JHS) is a peer-reviewed open 
access publication hosted as part of the Linguistic Society of America's 
eLanguage platform. JHS is intended to present theoretically-informed papers 
dealing with any aspect of historical syntax, whether diachronic change or the 
synchronic description of historical language states. This subfield of 
linguistics has never in the past had its own journal, but the flourishing of 
work in the area since the 1970s, bringing with it advances in the 
understanding of typical pathways of change as well as in the understanding 
of the relationship between syntactic theory and diachrony and in the tools of 
the discipline (large annotated corpora), means that such a journal is long 
overdue.

The open access, online-only format of the journal makes it ideal for hosting 
articles that go beyond the limitations of print. For instance, in historical 
syntax, corpus queries and collections of data can be linked to from within 
the article, making high quality quantitative work replicable in a way that is 
impossible in traditional print journals, with no limit on length within reason.

The journal is now accepting submissions! Papers that combine philological 
expertise with insights from linguistic theory are particularly welcome, though 
no particular theory or framework will be given precedence. Alongside full-
length articles, squibs of up to 3,000 words and book reviews are also 
welcome.

The speed of publication should be much greater than that found in traditional 
print journals or printed conference volumes: authors should hear back within 
twelve weeks, and articles will be published online as soon as they are 
accepted.

In his plenary address at the 2011 LAGB Annual Meeting in Manchester, 
Mark Liberman mentioned historical syntax as one of the subdisciplines of 
linguistics that is currently at the dawn of a new golden age. JHS hopes to 
aid in the dissemination of this golden-age research - we welcome your 
submissions!







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