[Lingtyp] Journal of Amazonian Languages

Wed Nov 12 12:36:01 UTC 2014

Hello again,

I'm sorry, I should have mentioned EL Publishing as well and Joseph is of
course completely right that LangSci does book series.

Best,
Hedvig

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2014-11-12 13:06 GMT+01:00 Peter Austin <pa2 at soas.ac.uk>:

> 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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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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