Journals

CONSTRUCTIONS offers a forum for linguistic research concerned with the structure, use, function, and development of 'constructions' in language and linguistics. The journal aims at a balanced integration of both notional, informal approaches to constructions in general and more formal treatments, as for example, within the framework of construction grammar. One of the long-term goals is to establish contact between researchers from various perspectives. The term 'construction' as understood in this journal is deliberately chosen to have a broad extension and not be limited to any specific definition or linguistic orientation. Constructions is not restricted to any particular language or language family, and aims at combining theoretical, empirical, and applied issues.

Recently published articles

• An Intonational Construction by Nima Sadat-Tehrani
• Imperatives in concessive clauses: compatibility between constructions by Hidemitsu Takahashi
• Manner of Obtainment as a relative in a family of resultative constructions by Konrad Szczesniak

Semantics and Pragmatics is a peer-reviewed open access journal. The main content is high quality, original, self-contained research articles on the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages. While our target audience is primarily academic linguists, we expect to also publish material by, or of relevance to, philosophers, psychologists, and computer scientists. The journal is affiliated with and published by the Linguistic Society of America under its eLanguage initiative, and receives financial support from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin.

Recently published articles

• Donkey anaphora is in-scope binding by Chris Barker, Chung-chieh Shan
• Instructions for S&P authors using LATEX 2? by Kai von Fintel, Christopher Potts, Chung-chieh Shan
• Semantics and Pragmatics -- A New Journal by David Beaver, Kai von Fintel

The goal of the Journal of Mesoamerican Languages and Linguistics (JMLL) is to contribute to the documentation of Mesoamerican languages, many of which are endangered, as well as to their historical, theoretical, and typological analysis. Some topics that the Editorial Board of this journal hopes to develop further, due to the dearth of relevant publications in the past, include the following: Mesoamerican sociolinguistics (with its potential for elucidating aspects related to language socialization and language endangerment), the history of Mesoamerican linguistics, and the study of indigenous sign languages (or related systems). Other topics that are encouraged include: the linguistic structure of indigenous writing systems and texts (from any time period), and possible historical relationships (whether by common descent or contact) between Mesoamerican languages and non-Mesoamerican languages - not to mention further research on the nature of Mesoamerica as a linguistic area.

Recently published articles

• K'U: The Divine Monkey by Brian Stross

Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT) is a new open-access journal that focusses on relationships between linguistic insights, which can prove valuable to language technology, and language technology, which can enrich linguistic research. The Editorial Board of LiLT believes that, in conjunction with machine learning and statistical techniques, deeper and more sophisticated models of language and speech are needed to make significant progress in newly emerging areas of computational language analysis. LiLT provides a forum for such work. LiLT takes an eclectic view on methodology. Submissions should be sent electronically to Annie Zaenen (azaenen@earthlink.net). LiLT is hosted externally by CSLI Publications: http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/LiLT/index.html

Recently published articles

• Computational Inflection of Multi-Word Units, a contrastive study of lexical approaches by Agata Savary
• Constructing Integrated Corpus and Lexicon Models for Multi-Layer Annotation in OWL DL by Aljoscha Burchardt, Sebastian Pado, Dennis Spohr, Anette Frank, Ulrich Heid