[Lingtyp] On making these interesting discussions more public

[Nick Enfield]

We would indeed be keen to consider something like this. There is a reason
we want the books to be brief: adding more words seldom increases clarity
and readability! 
Please get in touch with us if there is interest.
Nick


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N J Enfield, Professor and Chair, Linguistics, The University of Sydney
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On 26/01/16 19:57, "Sebastian Nordhoff"
<sebastian.nordhoff at glottotopia.de> wrote:

>On 01/26/2016 09:49 AM, giorgio.arcodia at unimib.it wrote:
>> 
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> A volume in the "Conceptual Foundations of Language Science" is a great
>> idea indeed. Besides being open-access, there would not be the obvious
>> limitations of space that a journal has.
>
>Dear all,
>I draw your attention to the following paragraph of the series description
>
>http://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/cfls
>"To be considered for this series, a book must be short (length around
>35,000 words, or 90 pages) and must be written in clear, accessible
>prose, to maximize its appeal across the fields of language science."
>
>It will be difficult to fit a collection of papers in 90 pages. On the
>other hand, maybe a collection of short papers would also fit the
>series, even if more than 90 pages are used. One would have to ask the
>editors (Mark Dingemanse and Nick Enfield)
>
>Best wishes
>Sebastian
>
>
>
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Giorgio F. Arcodia
>> 
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