[Lingtyp] Journal of Amazonian Languages

Wed Nov 12 12:06:19 UTC 2014

I would be happy to discuss with anyone (ideally off list) about starting
an online journal for Amazonian languages using the EL Publishing platform (
www.elpublishing.org). We already publish "Language Documentation and
Description" (as well as multimedia and plans for monographs) and would be
interested in extending our stable if there is a good case. We are fully
peer-reviewed blind refereed free online publications platform.

Best,
Peter

On 12 November 2014 10:48, Joseph T. Farquharson <jtfarquharson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It is great that Language Science Press is getting some focus (and I might
> be speaking out of turn here) but I just wanted to point out that LangSci
> Press doesn't currently publish journals. They publish book-length
> manuscripts (monographs and edited volumes) in specialist books series. I
> am sure they would be happy to have a book series on Amerindian languages
> to complement the series on African languages.
>
> Joseph
>
> On 12 November 2014 11:25, Jeanette Sakel <Jeanette.Sakel at uwe.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I remember being part of discussions to start a new ‘Amerindian’ journal
>> (with a focus on Latin America) following a conference at the University of
>> Bremen. This never really worked out in the end – mostly because we were
>> pursuing the idea of a ‘paper’ journal.
>>
>> I think starting an online journal with LangSci is a great idea – whether
>> it be for Amazonia or for a wider Latin American (or even Amerindian)
>> distribution.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jeanette
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *Hedvig Skirgård
>> *Sent:* 12 November 2014 10:14
>> *To:* Everett, Daniel
>> *Cc:* Funknet List; <LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Lingtyp] Journal of Amazonian Languages
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
>> Please forgive me for any mistakes of orthography (especially Swedish and
>> French diacritics), I try to answer as fast as possible and sometimes that
>> results in less than optimal key board output.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>> Ian Maddieson
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