ordering of authors' names

[Arnold Zwicky]

anne mark of mit press explains the abandonment of alphabetical order:


>The change had to do with academic culture. Some authors felt that other
>linguists (including potential employers and tenure committees) assume
>that the first-named author of a paper is the primary author. Sometimes
>when author X considered himself or herself the primary author of a
>paper yet was named second, alphabetically, after author A, the authors
>asked to insert a footnote reading "The authors' names appear in
>alphabetical order." This seemed awkward, so we finally decided to
>simply let the authors themselves determine the order of their names.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)