LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS is an international journal which has been included in the LLBA, MLA, SSCI and A&HCI citation indexes. It publishes research in general or theoretical linguistics. Its areas of interest include the languages of East Asia and the Pacific Region, thus compassing (inter alia) Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Austroasiatic and Altaic language families. Contributions may be in the form of original research papers and article/book reviews. Correspondence concerning submissions, either article or review, or editorial matters should be directed to the Chief Editor at editor@gate.sinica.edu.tw
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS is a quarterly publication. There are no restrictions on regular submission, although manuscripts in English are preferred. The journal does not accept papers that have already been published, or are being simultaneously submitted to other publications. Submissions must be typed, using Microsoft Word 6.0 (or later version). In principle, English-language manuscripts should be kept to within thirty single-spaced pages, and Chinese-language manuscripts (typed using the "Big 5" input mode) should be kept to within 25,000 characters. Authors are encouraged to keep specialized formatting to a minimum. Upon receipt, a manuscript is immediately sent out for review. After a manuscript has been published, its author will receive 30 complimentary off-prints plus two copies of the journal volume in which the article appears. (Honoraria are not available.)
Authors need not worry about their initial submissions conforming to the style sheet. Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, authors must submit revised versions prepared in strict accordance with the LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS style sheet. The Language AND LINGUISTICS style sheet is generally the same as for the journal LANGUAGE, with the following modifications.
Begin article sections with "1" (not zero). Examples, figures and tables should each be numbered separately. Order the sections as follows:
1.
1.1
1.1.1
Order examples like this:
(1)
(2) a.
a'. (Use the "straight" quote ['] rather than a "smart" quote [‘] or [’] to indicate "prime".)
Assign consecutive numbers to examples throughout the document; do not renumber from "(1)" for each section of the article.
Use footnotes (not endnotes). An asterisk (*) at the end of the article title will refer to a footnote for acknowledgments; thereafter, all footnotes will be in an uninterrupted, numeric sequence, beginning with "1".
Times New Roman is the working font for journal articles, with italic and bold styles reserved for special marking. A proliferation of fonts in a document is discouraged. Phonetic transcription must be in a Unicode font (e.g. SILDoulos, IPAPANNEW, STEDTU).
Citation formats:
As part of a running text: author (year), or author (year:page) E.g., Smith (1984), Jones (1999:123)
As a parenthetic note: (author year), or (author year:page) E.g., (Smith 1984), (Jones 1999:123)
In general, avoid using titles, such as Dr., Professor, or Chairman.
Sample references:
Abney, Steven P., and Mark Johnson. 1991. Memory requirements and local
ambiguities of parsing strategies. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 20.3:233-250.
Babyonyshev, Maria. 1996. Structural Connections in Syntax and Parsing:
Studies in Russian and Japanese. Cambridge: MIT dissertation.
Babyonyshev, Maria, and Edward Gibson.1995. Processing overload in
Japanese. Papers on Language and Acquisition, ed. by Carson T.
Schutze, Jennifer B. Ganger, and Kevin Broihier, 1-35. MIT Working
Papers in Linguistics 26. Cambridge: MIT.
Chomsky, Noam. 1965. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge: MIT
Press.
Gibson, Edward, and Kara Ko. 1998. An integration-based theory of
computational resources. Paper presented at the 4th Architectures and
Mechanisms in Language Processing Conference. Germany: University
of Freiburg.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. (ed.) 1993. Advances in Role and Reference Grammar.
Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
