Journal of Historical Syntax
Call for papers
JHS is a peer-reviewed open access publication hosted as part of the Linguistic Society of America's eLanguage platform. JHS is intended to present theoretically-informed papers dealing with any aspect of historical syntax, whether diachronic change or the synchronic description of historical language states. This subfield of linguistics has never in the past had its own journal, but the flourishing of work in the area since the 1970s, bringing with it advances in the understanding of typical pathways of change as well as in the understanding of the relationship between syntactic theory and diachrony and in the tools of the discipline (large annotated corpora), means that such a journal is long overdue.
The open access, online-only format of the journal makes it ideal for hosting articles that go beyond the limitations of print. For instance, in historical syntax, corpus queries and collections of data can be linked to from within the article, making high quality quantitative work replicable in a way that is impossible in traditional print journals, with no limit on length within reason.
The journal is now accepting submissions! Papers that combine philological expertise with insights from linguistic theory are particularly welcome, though no particular theory or framework will be given precedence. Alongside full-length articles, squibs of up to 3,000 words and book reviews are also welcome.
The speed of publication should be much greater than that found in traditional print journals or printed conference volumes: authors should hear back within twelve weeks, and articles will be published online as soon as they are accepted.
In his plenary address at the 2011 LAGB Annual Meeting in Manchester, Mark Liberman mentioned historical syntax as one of the subdisciplines of linguistics that is currently at the dawn of a new golden age. JHS hopes to aid in the dissemination of this golden-age research - we welcome your submissions!
ISSN: 2163-6001