Language and Linguistics | 語言暨語言學

Editor-in-Chief
Edith Aldridge | Academia Sinica, Taiwan | LLeditor at sinica.edu.tw
Associate Editors
Miao-Hsia Chang | National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Shin Fukuda | University of Hawaii, USA
Feng-fan Hsieh | National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
ORCID logoGuillaume Jacques | CNRS, France
Wei-wen Roger Liao | Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Yen-Hwei Lin | Michigan State University, USA
Chen-Sheng Luther Liu | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Eric Potsdam | University of Florida, USA
Sze-Wing Tang | The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Rui-wen Wu | Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Editorial Assistant
Jenny Tzu-Chun Chen | Academia Sinica
Abigail Jen-Hui Wang | Academia Sinica
Sandy Ya-Chu Yang | Academia Sinica

Language and Linguistics is an academic publication of the Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica. Established in 2000, it publishes research in general and theoretical linguistics on the languages of East Asia and the Pacific region, including Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, and the Austroasiatic and Altaic language families.

Since 2013, Language and Linguistics has been managed by an Editor-in-Chief, with internationally known scholars with different areas of expertise serving as Associate Editors, Editorial Board Members, and Reviewers, in order to present an informative, insightful scholarly dialogue.
To increase international citation rates and visibility, Language and Linguistics has been co-published with international publisher SAGE from 2014 to 2016 (Volume 15-17) and distributed worldwide. Beginning in 2017 (Volume 18), Language and Linguistics has been in partnership with John Benjamins Publishing Company, one of the leading publishers in the field of language and linguistics.

Language and Linguistics is an Open Access journal and the only international linguistic journal that publishes in both English and Traditional Chinese. The journal publishes a single volume yearly. Four issues are published per volume. Each volume contains three English issues (January, April, and October) and one Chinese issue (July). With original studies and a rigorous review process, the journal is indexed by the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), Bibliographie linguistique/Linguistic bibliography, CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, Linguistics Abstracts, MLA International Bibliography, SCOPUS, CNKI Scholar, Dimensions, Glottolog, and THCI.

Language and Linguistics seeks to provide research that is professional, insightful, and current, and welcomes submissions in all areas of linguistics.

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To submit papers or monographs, please visit https://llsubmit.ling.sinica.edu.tw

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Volumes 18 and onward are freely accessible on both L&L’s websiteand on the John Benjamins e-Platform. Most of these volumes were first made Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. It has now (January 2023) been decided to change this to the more liberal CC BY 4.0 license. Please note that while we are in the process of making this change, information about licenses can vary between the Benjamins website, platform and in the articles themselves.

ISSN: 1606-822X | E-ISSN: 2309-5067
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Latest articles

7 October 2024

  • Acknowledgements
    LALI 25:4 (2024) pp. 791–792
  • 20 September 2024

  • 未來不等於非現實語氣 以幾個台灣南島語為例
    陳思瑋
  • 19 September 2024

  • 上古漢語不及物動詞用為使動之條件與限制
    魏培泉
  • 論上古漢語副詞的全稱量化與相關問題
    魏培泉
  • 13 September 2024

  • Non-past and past verb stems in Tangut
    Mathieu Beaudouin | LALI 26:1 (2025) pp. 1–21
  • 12 September 2024

  • Light predicate raising in the Mandarin post-VP adverbial nominal constructions
    Ning Zhang | LALI 26:1 (2025) pp. 155–189
  • 6 September 2024

  • A voicing rule for non-continuant obstruents in Thebo Tibetan
    Daxue Yang , Sangsrgyas Tshering Jesse P. Gates | LALI 25:4 (2024) pp. 710–746
  • 29 August 2024

  • Elizabeth Closs Traugott . 2022. Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers
    Reviewed by Shan Zuo Fuyin Li | LALI 26:1 (2025) pp. 190–197
  • 27 August 2024

  • Rong Chen . 2022. Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics
    Reviewed by Yingzhe Jin | LALI 25:4 (2024) pp. 785–790
  • 15 August 2024

  • Thewo Tibetan’s /ta33/ and /nə33/ : A narrative exploration of how temporal space and verbal semantics interact with evidentiality
    Abe Powell | LALI 25:4 (2024) pp. 673–709
  • 9 August 2024

  • Pseudo matrix sluicing constructions in Mandarin Chinese
    Chi-Ming Louis Liu | LALI 26:1 (2025) p. 78
  • 22 July 2024

  • Foot-shift and disyllabification in the history of Chinese : With a revisit of syllabic structures of Old Chinese
    Huibin Zhuang , Pusong Zhao Shengli Feng | LALI 26:1 (2025) pp. 123–154
  • 19 July 2024

  • A typology of alternative questions in Chinese and other East Asian languages
    Xinyi Li | LALI 26:1 (2025) pp. 22–77
  • 8 July 2024

  • From negative to conjunctive : bo55 in the Jieyang Southern Min dialect
    Yanxuan Huang , Ruiling Huang Jiaying Huang | LALI 25:4 (2024) pp. 615–643
  • 2 July 2024

  • 名物化與「的」字結構 談轉指與自指
    林若望 | LALI 25:3 (2024) pp. 454–496
  • 從連類複數到真性複數 揭陽閩語複數標記「伊儂」的功能與演變
    黃瑞玲 盛益民 | LALI 25:3 (2024) pp. 395–425
  • 江西吉水方言強調即時性的「來」及相關問題
    李桂蘭 | LALI 25:3 (2024) pp. 426–453
  • 甘青語言區域漢語副動詞附綴「是」 語義、句法和來源
    邵明園 林旭娜 | LALI 25:3 (2024) pp. 497–534
  • 臘羅彝語的度量短語
    卜維美 劉鴻勇 | LALI 25:3 (2024) pp. 351–369
  • 重慶方言句末語氣詞的意義功能及結構
    湯麗 許又尹 | LALI 25:3 (2024) pp. 535–575
  • 韓漢音的分期與中古到現代的演變
    嚴翼相 | LALI 25:3 (2024) pp. 370–394
  • 27 June 2024

  • The syntax of Korean reduced conditionals : Right edge and pronominalization
    Masaya Yoshida Suwon Yoon | LALI 25:4 (2024) pp. 747–784
  • 21 June 2024

  • Waning and waxing : The case of comparative marking in Tujia
    Man Lu , Yu Ma , Jeroen van de Weijer Zhen Yi | LALI 25:4 (2024) pp. 644–672
  • 30 May 2024

  • 西北漢語助詞「著」的比較研究 論語言接觸性演變的一種新模式
    范曉蕾
  • 22 April 2024

  • Verbal marking, intransitivity, and argument structure : The case of Budai Rukai
    Cheng-Fu Chen | LALI 25:4 (2024) pp. 577–614
  • 2 April 2024

  • Interrogatives of reason in Tibeto-Burman languages of Sichuan
    Hongdi Ding Sicong Dong | LALI 25:2 (2024) pp. 187–233
  • The semantics of Mandarin futurates
    Yuyin He | LALI 25:2 (2024) pp. 234–269
  • The sole relative marker
    Xinjunrong Huang Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai | LALI 25:2 (2024) pp. 318–350
  • Sortal classifiers and noun categorization in Zauzou
    Yu Li | LALI 25:2 (2024) pp. 270–317
  • 2 January 2024

  • Topic drop and pro drop
    C. -T. James Huang Barry C. -Y. Yang | LALI 25:1 (2024) pp. 1–27
  • Cleaving idioms with right-node-raising : An LF copying approach
    Jeong-Seok Kim , Duk-Ho Jung Jin Hyung Lee | LALI 25:1 (2024) pp. 28–55
  • Structural position affects topic transition : An eye-tracking study
    Siqi Lyu , Jung-Yueh Tu Chien-Jer Charles Lin | LALI 25:1 (2024) pp. 56–79
  • Sino-Tibetan *w in Tibetan and Old Chinese
    Axel Schuessler | LALI 25:1 (2024) p. 80
  • Causative alternation in Zuo Tradition
    Saina Wuyun | LALI 25:1 (2024) pp. 123–161
  • Revisiting sentence-final adjunct WHAT
    Barry C.-Y. Yang | LALI 25:1 (2024) pp. 162–186
  • 14 September 2023

  • Probabilistic phonology : A review of theoretical perspectives, applications, and problems
    John Alderete Sara Finley | LALI 24:4 (2023) pp. 565–610
  • Tangut and Horpa languages : Some shared morphosyntactic features
    Mathieu Beaudouin | LALI 24:4 (2023) pp. 611–673
  • Rethinking postverbal ‘acquire’ and related constructions in Cantonese : Polyfunctionality and parameters
    Cherry Chit-yu Lam | LALI 24:4 (2023) pp. 674–732
  • The grammaticalization of impossibility : The emergence of the Mandarin modal auxiliary wufa
    Meili Liu Hubert Cuyckens | LALI 24:4 (2023) pp. 733–763
  • The {bei+verb+jiangqu} construction in pre-twelfth century Chinese : Its evolution and transcription
    Jianqiang Sun | LALI 24:4 (2023) pp. 764–794
  • Acknowledgements
    LALI 24:4 (2023) pp. 795–796
  • 10 July 2023

  • 上聲來源(< -ʔ)新證
    梅祖麟 | LALI 24:3 (2023) pp. 502–514
  • 再談漢語「是」字句及幾類相關結構的語義
    劉瑩 程工 | LALI 24:3 (2023) pp. 469–501
  • 廈門閩南語的文、白形式在構詞層面上的分工與競爭
    郭必之 | LALI 24:3 (2023) pp. 437–468
  • 格西霍爾語的示證範疇
    田阡子 孫天心 | LALI 24:3 (2023) pp. 540–563
  • 閩南語的去鼻化音變與原始沿海閩語的清響音
    沈瑞清 | LALI 24:3 (2023) pp. 515–539
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