[Lingtyp] Journal of Amazonian Languages

[Hedvig Skirgård]

Hello,

I'm not an amazonian linguist nor have I ever edited a journal, but I just
thought I should mention that Language Science Press has started a series
for descriptive African linguistics and would perhaps be open to something
similar for amazonian languages.

http://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/ALGD

/Hedvig

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2014-11-12 7:50 GMT+01:00 Everett, Daniel <DEVERETT at bentley.edu>:

>  An idea along these lines is something that Terry Kaufman, David Rood,
> and I put to the U of Chicago Press about 20 years ago, i.e. to have an
> IJAL series of “grammar fragments.” This would be largish grammatical
> portions that people had written up and might not have been able to develop
> into a full-grammar or who just wanted to publish a description of some
> portion of the grammar. In addition to normal articles. U of C Press
> obviously didn’t support it - because of costs.
>
>  Publishing the Journal of Amazonian Languages  on-line was not an option
> available to me in the 90s. Mouton de Gruyter had offered to take over the
> journal, but I had no assistance on it at all and was feeling somewhat
> overwhelmed with that in addition to everything else (chairing the Pitt
> linguistics department, etc)
>
>  Lots of possibilities if someone wanted to revive the idea with or
> without the addition of “grammar fragments." On the other hand, there are
> other outlets available. I just liked the idea of having a journal
> dedicated to Amazonian languages. But research there has come a lot further
> than it was at the time I started that journal.
>
>  — Dan
>
> On Nov 11, 2014, at 11:20 PM, Ian Maddieson <ianm at BERKELEY.EDU> wrote:
>
>  I hope someone might indeed take up Dan’s suggestion of a revival of the
> Journal of Amazonian Linguistics — perhaps as an on-line journal. I can
> think of a couple of excellent candidates to lead such an effort.
>
>  Ian
>
>  On 7 Nov 2014, at 13:44, Everett, Daniel <DEVERETT at BENTLEY.EDU> wrote:
>
>  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/48jvz9445qgtydk/AADib9UQcGFRcMLTGLNqMyH0a?dl=0
>
>  Folks,
>
>  The above link should take you to both issues of the Journal of
> Amazonian Languages, the only ones ever published. I was at this time one
> of the the only full-time academics (pretty much the only regular one, with
> occasional forays by one or two others)  at a North American university
> doing regular field research on Amazonian languages.  This journal was
> sponsored by the linguistics department of the University of Pittsburgh,
> which I chaired from 1989-1999. There are some excellent articles in these
> two numbers and I am sorry it has taken me so long to make them more widely
> available. I had hoped to revive the journal but perhaps someone else will
> take it up in spirit, now that the field has grown.
>
>  Dan
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