Histling-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 5

Joseph Salmons jsalmons at wisc.edu
Wed Jan 20 21:48:04 UTC 2010


Well said, Silvia. An e-journal can escape some of the most annoying problems of print journals, like limits on numbers of pages per year or color illustrations and graphics. 

A repository for papers, including ones that haven't been reviewed, is another creature, like the Rutgers Optimality Archive (to give only one example), and could serve a purpose, though a very different one from a journal. 

Joe


On Jan 20, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Silvia Luraghi wrote:

> Dear Scott and list,
> as far as the discussion has been developing up to now, I don't think we're talking of a repository where people can upload they unpublished papers, we're talking of a peer-reviewed online piublication, which is the reason why it should be a co-journal of eLanguage: this should per se guarantee high quality. I personally think that it is not the right approach to say that such an ejournal would ape print journals, I rather think that it is in everybody's interest to have a quotable publication, nobody wants to waste energy to set up a collection of papers with an unclear scholarly status (I think so, at least)
> Silvia
> 
> At 21.03 20/01/2010, Scott wrote:
>> I strongly disagree with Professor Martin Counihan on the format.
>> I wish to be absolutely certain that the e-journal will be in a citable
>> form and not degenerate into some type of Wiki.  His description, if I
>> understand it correctly, sounds too loose to be cited as an academic
>> source.  If I am wrong, I have an open mind on the subject; however,
>> the issue of qualifying as an academic citation is a vital issue to me.
>> 
>> N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD
>> Professor Emeritus
>> history & languages
>> 
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>>   1. Re: Histling-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 4 (Evie Couss?)
>>   2. Re: Histling-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 4 (Counihan M.J.)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:59:58 +0100
>> From: Evie Couss? <evie.cousse at ugent.be>
>> Subject: Re: [Histling-l] Histling-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 4
>> To: <histling-l at mailman.rice.edu>
>> Message-ID: <001701ca99a6$8fff1400$affd3c00$@cousse at ugent.be>
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>> 
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> I am very keen on contributing to an additional international journal on
>> historical Linguistics, being a historical linguist myself and being faced
>> with quite limited publication possibilities. Please keep me posted on new
>> developments.
>> 
>> Yours,
>> 
>> Evie Couss?
>> 
>> Assistant professor at the Department of Dutch Linguistics, Ghent University
>> (Belgium)
>> Associate professor at the Department of Languages and Literatures,
>> University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
>> 
>> Contact information spring semester 2009-2010
>> University of Gothenburg, Department of languages and literatures
>> Visiting address: Lundgrensgatan 7, Room H714, Gothenburg, Sweden
>> Mail address: Box 200, 405 30 G?teborg, Sweden
>> Phone: + 46 (0)31 7864589
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>>   2. Re: eLanguage and historical linguistics (Thurgood, Graham)
>> 
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:24:14 -0500
>> From: "Scott" <scat at cfl.rr.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Histling-l] Histling-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 2
>> To: <histling-l at mailman.rice.edu>
>> Message-ID: <0D32A43B2E22484B9EC11B814F7FF8F2 at leordinateur>
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>> I would be very interested in such an e-journal; unhappily, my health
>> is too uncertain for me to volunteer any assistance.
>> 
>> N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD
>> Professor Emeritus
>> history & languages
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu
>> [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of
>> histling-l-request at mailman.rice.edu
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>>   1. eLanguage and historical linguistics (Claire Bowern)
>> 
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:52:59 -0500
>> From: Claire Bowern <claire.bowern at yale.edu>
>> Subject: [Histling-l] eLanguage and historical linguistics
>> To: histling-l <histling-l at mailman.rice.edu>
>> Message-ID:
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>> 
>> Dear all,
>> I'd like to bring histling subscribers' attention to the LSA's eLanguage
>> cojournal site (http://elanguage.net/). 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Would someone be interested in taking this on? Information about proposing a
>> cojournal can be found here: http://elanguage.net/propose.php 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.)
>> 
>> Claire
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:26:48 -0800
>> From: "Thurgood, Graham" <GThurgood at csuchico.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Histling-l] eLanguage and historical linguistics
>> To: Domenec Mendez <domenec.mendeth at gmail.com>,
>>        "histling-l at mailman.rice.edu"   <histling-l at mailman.rice.edu>
>> Message-ID: <C778F8D8.19BD%gthurgood at csuchico.edu>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> 
>> Such a journal would be of great interest.  If I can help, let me know.
>> 
>> Graham Thurgood
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/17/10 12:11 PM, "Domenec Mendez" <domenec.mendeth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> just chipping in with my 10 cents for this new publication.
>> good luck to everybody.
>> 
>> Domenec
>> 
>> www.livescripts.ning.com <http://www.livescripts.ning.com>
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Joseph Salmons <jsalmons at wisc.edu>
>> Date: Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Histling-l] eLanguage and historical linguistics
>> To: Claire Bowern <claire.bowern at yale.edu>
>> Cc: histling-l <histling-l at mailman.rice.edu>
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks, Claire, for raising this.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.)
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Let's hope your message will generate some discussion on the list about how
>> to move forward.
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
>> On Jan 17, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Claire Bowern wrote:
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> I'd like to bring histling subscribers' attention to the LSA's eLanguage
>> cojournal site (http://elanguage.net/). 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Would someone be interested in taking this on? Information about proposing a
>> cojournal can be found here: http://elanguage.net/propose.php 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.)
>> 
>> Claire
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Histling-l mailing list
>> Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu
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>> 
>> Editor, Diachronica
>> 328 University Club
>> 432 East Campus Mall
>> University of Wisconsin
>> Madison, WI 53706
>> (608) 262-8180
>> http:// <http://csumc.wisc.edu/> diachronica.org <http://diachronica.org>
>> 
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>> 
>> 
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>> 
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:26:08 +0000
>> From: "Counihan M.J." <counihan at soton.ac.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [Histling-l] Histling-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 4
>> To: Evie Couss? <evie.cousse at ugent.be>, "histling-l at mailman.rice.edu"
>>        <histling-l at mailman.rice.edu>
>> Message-ID:
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>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> 
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> I have followed this discussion with great interest.  I agree wholeheartedly
>> that there is a need for an open electronic publishing system for historical
>> linguistics, but I am not convinced that the LSA eLanguage system is exactly
>> what is needed.  Rather than an online journal which apes the structure and
>> culture of a print journal, a more open and informal system might be more
>> valuable to the community.  A sort of cross between the archaeologists'
>> Archnet:
>> 
>> http://archnet.asu.edu
>> 
>> and the physicists' Arxiv:
>> 
>> http://xxx.soton.ac.uk/
>> 
>> might fit the bill.  This is also worth a glance:
>> 
>> http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
>> 
>> In other disciplines a great deal of work has been done to build up online
>> repositories so that papers will be securely stored but can be easily found,
>> with individuals being able to quickly upload their work in preprint form as
>> well as in final peer-reviewed form.  The LSA/eLanguage system is good, but
>> there is a much wider range of possibilities which historical linguists
>> should consider.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Martin Counihan
>> University of Southampton
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu
>> [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of Evie Couss?
>> Sent: 20 January 2010 08:00
>> To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu
>> Subject: Re: [Histling-l] Histling-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 4
>> 
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> I am very keen on contributing to an additional international journal on
>> historical Linguistics, being a historical linguist myself and being faced
>> with quite limited publication possibilities. Please keep me posted on new
>> developments.
>> 
>> Yours,
>> 
>> Evie Couss?
>> 
>> Assistant professor at the Department of Dutch Linguistics, Ghent University
>> (Belgium)
>> Associate professor at the Department of Languages and Literatures,
>> University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
>> 
>> Contact information spring semester 2009-2010
>> University of Gothenburg, Department of languages and literatures
>> Visiting address: Lundgrensgatan 7, Room H714, Gothenburg, Sweden
>> Mail address: Box 200, 405 30 G?teborg, Sweden
>> Phone: + 46 (0)31 7864589
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu
>> [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] Namens
>> histling-l-request at mailman.rice.edu
>> Verzonden: maandag 18 januari 2010 19:00
>> Aan: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu
>> Onderwerp: Histling-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 4
>> 
>> Send Histling-l mailing list submissions to
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>> 
>> Today's Topics:
>> 
>>   1. Re: Histling-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 2 (Scott)
>>   2. Re: eLanguage and historical linguistics (Thurgood, Graham)
>> 
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:24:14 -0500
>> From: "Scott" <scat at cfl.rr.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Histling-l] Histling-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 2
>> To: <histling-l at mailman.rice.edu>
>> Message-ID: <0D32A43B2E22484B9EC11B814F7FF8F2 at leordinateur>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="US-ASCII"
>> 
>> I would be very interested in such an e-journal; unhappily, my health
>> is too uncertain for me to volunteer any assistance.
>> 
>> N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD
>> Professor Emeritus
>> history & languages
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu
>> [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of
>> histling-l-request at mailman.rice.edu
>> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 1:01 PM
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>> 
>>   1. eLanguage and historical linguistics (Claire Bowern)
>> 
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:52:59 -0500
>> From: Claire Bowern <claire.bowern at yale.edu>
>> Subject: [Histling-l] eLanguage and historical linguistics
>> To: histling-l <histling-l at mailman.rice.edu>
>> Message-ID:
>>        <59c9c4cc1001170752r4a0ca64o8c3078964996ee12 at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> I'd like to bring histling subscribers' attention to the LSA's eLanguage
>> cojournal site (http://elanguage.net/). 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Would someone be interested in taking this on? Information about proposing a
>> cojournal can be found here: http://elanguage.net/propose.php 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.)
>> 
>> Claire
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>> ------------------------------
>> 
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:26:48 -0800
>> From: "Thurgood, Graham" <GThurgood at csuchico.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Histling-l] eLanguage and historical linguistics
>> To: Domenec Mendez <domenec.mendeth at gmail.com>,
>>        "histling-l at mailman.rice.edu"   <histling-l at mailman.rice.edu>
>> Message-ID: <C778F8D8.19BD%gthurgood at csuchico.edu>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> 
>> Such a journal would be of great interest.  If I can help, let me know.
>> 
>> Graham Thurgood
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/17/10 12:11 PM, "Domenec Mendez" <domenec.mendeth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> just chipping in with my 10 cents for this new publication.
>> good luck to everybody.
>> 
>> Domenec
>> 
>> www.livescripts.ning.com <http://www.livescripts.ning.com>
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Joseph Salmons <jsalmons at wisc.edu>
>> Date: Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Histling-l] eLanguage and historical linguistics
>> To: Claire Bowern <claire.bowern at yale.edu>
>> Cc: histling-l <histling-l at mailman.rice.edu>
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks, Claire, for raising this.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.)
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Let's hope your message will generate some discussion on the list about how
>> to move forward.
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
>> On Jan 17, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Claire Bowern wrote:
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> I'd like to bring histling subscribers' attention to the LSA's eLanguage
>> cojournal site (http://elanguage.net/). 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Would someone be interested in taking this on? Information about proposing a
>> cojournal can be found here: http://elanguage.net/propose.php 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.)
>> 
>> Claire
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Histling-l mailing list
>> Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu
>> https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l
>> 
>> 
>> Editor, Diachronica
>> 328 University Club
>> 432 East Campus Mall
>> University of Wisconsin
>> Madison, WI 53706
>> (608) 262-8180
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