Language Design: Introducing a New Journal

[Carlos Subirats Rüggeberg]

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Eulalia de Bobes <ebobes at seneca.uab.es>, UAB
Mar Cruz <mcruz at lingua.fil.ub.es>, UB
Emma Martinell <martinell at lingua.fil.ub.es>, UB
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                    Language Design:
               Introducing a New Journal
            Información proporcionada por:
     Prof. Juan de Dios Luque <jluque at goliat.ugr.es>
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    Language Design is an academic journal that publishes
linguistic research on relevant aspects of the design of natural
languages. One of the principal objectives of Language Design is
to foment debate and to integrate knowledge about the nature of
language in general, and also the unity and diversity of
particular languages. It is hoped that this will, in turn,
contribute to a clearer and more cohesive vision of the emergence
and evolution of natural languages, as well as their relations
with other aspects of our environment.

    The study of language design stems from the belief that
natural language emerges and develops as a result of the
conjunction, articulation, co-operation, and competition of
elements and pressures, which move in cycles of permanent
reorganization, and which are capable of eventually producing
highly structured codes of communication.

    One of the underlying principles of Language Design is the
presupposition that the multiple structures and linguistic
features found in different languages, in reality, constitute a
set of solutions taken from a complex, though not infinite, range
of possibilities, product of the interaction, clash, and
compromise of many different types of factors (ontological,
biological, psychological, cognitive, sociocultural and
historical). Each of these factors can potentially determine
design features in language through simultaneous interaction
with the competing pressures and demands of other factors

    In consonance with this, the different languages of the world
are both products and instruments, which have emerged from the
same basic conditioning and as such, are subject to the same
morpho-genetic forces. In this light, the differences between
languages are  due more to the existence of a wide range of
possible variations within the basic framework of natural
language than to the pressures of economic evolution and cultural
specificity. The various systems and structures manifest in
different languages are thus variants within a very similar
design process.

    As a forum of debate, the aim of  this journal is to
integrate recent advances in linguistics from a wide variety of
different areas, such as historical linguistics, language
typology, language acquisition, grammaticalization, etc. This
naturally includes any study of the different aspects and areas
of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology, semantic
discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics) which will help
to elucidate language architecture. In conclusion, Language
Design welcomes research articles from all theoretical
viewpoints and methodological perspectives. The principal
criterion for acceptance is that all articles should contribute
in some way to furthering the understanding of the nature of
language and its design features.

                                              The Editors


     Language Design, Journal of Theoretical and Experimental
     Linguistics. Volume 1 (1998),ISSN: 1139-4218, D.L.:
     GR-1058-98.
     Editor-in-Chief: Juan de Dios Luque Durán (University of
     Granada)

                        Assistant Editors
    Francisco José Manjón Pozas (University of Granada)
    Antonio Pamies Bertrán (University of Granada)

                        Editorial Board
    José Andrés de Molina Redondo (University of Granada)
    Sebastián Serrano Farrera (University of Barcelona)
    Ángel López García (University of Valencia)
    Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera (University of Madrid)
    Miguel Casas Gómez (University of Cádiz)
    María Luisa Calero Vaquera (University of Córdoba)
    Francisco García Marcos (University of Almería)
    Carlos Subirats Rüggeberg (Autonomous U. of Barcelona)
    José Manuel Martín Morillas (University of Granada)
    Jenaro Ortega Olivares (University of Granada)

                       Consulting Editors
    Igor A. Mel'chuk (University of Montreal)
    Iuri D. Apresian (Russian Academy of Sciences)
    Anna Wierzbicka (Australian National University)
    Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp)
    Raffaele Simone (University of Rome III)
    Vadim B. Kassevitch (University of St. Petersburg)
    Pamela Faber (University of Granada)
    Serguei A. Starostin (Russian State University for the
       Humanities)
    Leonard Guertsenberg (Russian Academy of Sciences)
    František  Ermak (University of Prague)
    Henri Zinglé (University of Nice-Sophie Antipolis)

    Editorial address:
    Departamento de Lingüística General
    Universidad de Granada
    Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Ed. A
    Campus de Cartuja s/n
    18071 GRANADA
    SPAIN
    e-mail: jluque at goliat.ugr.es

    Technical editor: Vicente García Piñeiro
    Método Ediciones
    Granada, Spain


            Contents of the first issue of Language Design

      I. Articles:

    - Carlos Subirats Rüggeberg, Autonomous U. Barcelona:
      Automatic Extraction of Textual Information in
      Spanish.
    - Antonio Moreno Sandoval, Autonomous U. of Madrid
      A Paradigm-and-Feature Based Computational
      Morphology for Spanish.
    - Anthony Naro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
      Quantitative Models for the Study of Linguistic
      Variation.
    - Bernard Comrie, University of Southern California
      Reference-tracking: description and explanation.
    - Vadim B. Kassevitch & Anatoly V. Ventsov, University
      of St. Petersburg and Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St.
      Petersburg
      Autonomous tiers and speech perception.


      II. Book Notices
    - II Jornadas de Lingüística, by Miguel Casas Gómez
      (general  editor) & J. Espinosa García (editor).
    - Revista Pragmalingüística by José L. Guijarro
      Morales &  Miguel Casas Gómez (University of Cádiz) (ed.).

      II. Book Reviews
    - Daniel Jorques Jiménez (University of Valencia)
      Gramática del español. I. La oración compuesta & II.
      La oración simple, by Ángel López García.

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