Studies in Language

General Editors
ORCID logoKatharina Haude | CNRS-SEDYL
ORCID logoNicole Kruspe | Lund University
Associate Editors
I Wayan Arka | The Australian National University
ORCID logoPeter M. Arkadiev | Russian Academy of Sciences
Eleanor Coghill | Uppsala University
ORCID logoDenis Creissels | Lumière University Lyon 2
Jeff Good | University of Buffalo
Tom Güldemann | Humboldt University Berlin
ORCID logoMartin Haspelmath | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Daniel Hole | University of Stuttgart
ORCID logoShoichi Iwasaki | University of California, Los Angeles
Sun-Ah Jun | University of California, Los Angeles
ORCID logoMarianne Mithun | University of California, Santa Barbara
ORCID logoDoris L. Payne | University of Oregon
Editorial Assistant
Viveka Velupillai | Justus Liebig University Giessen

Studies in Language (SL) provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics, with a particular focus on empirically well-grounded research in the functionalist tradition that recognizes the diversity and variability of human languages and of communication patterns, the historical dynamics of languages, and the embedding of language in both social practices and cognition.

Studies in Language provides for three sections and types of contributions:

  • Regular articles: Regular articles are expected to adopt a cross-linguistic or comparative perspective and to advance our understanding of human language as such, in terms of state-of-the-art theories, methods, and analytical models or frameworks. Regular articles on one individual language are published only to the extent that they make a contribution of general interest.
  • News from the Field: SL welcomes short contributions that report on new discoveries in little-known or endangered languages, emphasizing description over theory and comparison. Contributions to this special section typically derive from original fieldwork and are expected to provide concise and well-substantiated analyses of linguistic phenomena that have not been noticed so far and for which the wider theoretical implications have yet to be established.
  • Review articles: Studies in Language invites proposals for Review Articles in which recent book publications relating to and relevant for some specific area of linguistic research are critically discussed. Review Articles must be preceded by a proposal, which will be evaluated by the journal editors. If the proposal is accepted, the Review Article author will receive a physical or digital copy of the book. The Review Article should be a well thought through and balanced survey. Specific areas of interest include morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, and discourse, with priority to a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Review Articles of books on a single language are welcome if the topic is of interest to general linguists, whereas Review Articles of interdisciplinary studies are welcome to the extent that they have a strong functional linguistic orientation.

SL publishes its articles Online First.

Studies in Language now offers online submission.

ISSN: 0378-4177 | E-ISSN: 1569-9978
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Latest articles

30 September 2024

  • Postnominal flagging and OV in Sinitic : Areal and typological perspectives
    Andreas Hölzl
  • 27 August 2024

  • Valency patterns in Mande : Contact vs inheritance
    Maria Khachaturyan , George Moroz , Valentin Vydrin Maria Konoshenko
  • 25 June 2024

  • Voice and transitivity in Äiwoo and Engdewu : A case study in alignment change
    Åshild Næss
  • 6 June 2024

  • Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng, a youth language or stylect of Kenya
    Hannah Gibson , Chege Githiora , Fridah Kanana Erastus Lutz Marten | SL 48:4 (2024) pp. 909–950
  • Discontinuous past interpretation in Abaza
    Evgenia Klyagina
  • 30 May 2024

  • The ventive and the deictic shift : The case of Old Assyrian
    Sergey Koval Sergey Loesov
  • 23 May 2024

  • What can be said? Variation among expressions of modal possibility in a South African language cluster
    Thera Marie Crane , Remah Lubambo , M Petrus Mabena , Cordelia Nkwinika , Muhle Sibisi Onelisa Slater
  • 6 May 2024

  • Asymmetry in temporal specification between affirmation and negation : Adverbials and tense-aspect neutralization
    Matti Miestamo , Olli O. Silvennoinen Chingduang Yurayong
  • Inflection class interactions and valency changes in Matlatzinca
    Enrique L. Palancar Leonardo Carranza Martínez
  • 29 April 2024

  • Associated motion, associated posture and imperfective aspect in Tacana (Amazonian Bolivia)
    Antoine Guillaume | SL 48:4 (2024) pp. 851–908
  • 25 April 2024

  • Specificity contrasts in Lalo Yi : Structure and interpretation
    Yaqing Hu Andrew Simpson
  • 8 April 2024

  • The links between evidentiality, modality, and grammaticalization
    Eric Mélac | SL 48:3 (2024) pp. 513–542
  • 14 March 2024

  • The action reference construction in Mandarin Chinese and typology of lexical flexibility
    Liwei Gong Satoshi Uehara | SL 48:4 (2024) pp. 813–850
  • 30 January 2024

  • Sequentiality : A novel use of the perfect in Gã
    Akua Campbell | SL 48:4 (2024) pp. 781–812
  • 29 January 2024

  • Frequency differences in reportative exceptionality and how to account for them : A case study on verbal reportative markers in French, Dutch and German
    Tanja Mortelmans | SL 48:3 (2024) pp. 682–722
  • Evidentiality as a grammaticalization passenger : An investigation of evidential developments in Tibetic languages and beyond
    Eric Mélac Joanna Bialek | SL 48:3 (2024) pp. 638–681
  • 3 January 2024

  • ‘Until’ constructions and expletive negation in Huasteca Nahuatl
    Jesus Olguin Martinez | SL 48:4 (2024) pp. 753–780
  • 8 December 2023

  • On the link between grammaticalization and subjectification : The case of the Dutch modals
    Jan Nuyts | SL 48:3 (2024) pp. 608–637
  • 28 November 2023

  • The paradigmaticity of evidentials in the Tibetic languages of Khams
    Dawa Drolma Hiroyuki Suzuki | SL 48:3 (2024) pp. 723–752
  • 21 November 2023

  • Evidentiality, discourse prominence and grammaticalization
    Kasper Boye | SL 48:3 (2024) pp. 575–607
  • 17 November 2023

  • Speaking about knowledge : Evidentiality and the ecology of language
    Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | SL 48:3 (2024) pp. 543–574
  • 7 November 2023

  • A new converb originating from the locative noun in Beserman
    Maria Usacheva Natalia Serdobolskaya | SL 48:2 (2024) pp. 472–512
  • 31 October 2023

  • Adjectival intensification in West Germanic : A corpus-based comparison of Afrikaans, Dutch, English and German
    Daniel Van Olmen | SL 48:2 (2024) pp. 436–471
  • 3 October 2023

  • A binary inflectional voice contrast in Mabaan (Western Nilotic)
    Torben Andersen | SL 48:2 (2024) pp. 390–435
  • 1 September 2023

  • Comparing zero and referential choice in eight languages with a focus on Mandarin Chinese
    Maria Vollmer | SL 48:2 (2024) pp. 351–389
  • 24 August 2023

  • Minimal participant structure of the event and the emergence of the argument/adjunct distinction
    Zygmunt Frajzyngier , Natalia Gurian Sergei Karpenko | SL 48:1 (2024) pp. 181–227
  • 27 June 2023

  • Argument indexing in Kamang
    Katherine Walker , Pegah Faghiri Eva van Lier | SL 48:2 (2024) pp. 287–350
  • 23 June 2023

  • The psycholinguistic realization of topic in Chinese : Cross-modal priming in the processing of Chinese OSV sentences
    Liulin Zhang | SL 48:2 (2024) pp. 253–286
  • 22 June 2023

  • Person marking in Longxi Qiang
    Wuxi Zheng | SL 48:1 (2024) pp. 228–251
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    Submission

    Studies in Language offers online submission .

    General

    Studies in Language invites contributions in all areas of linguistics, with special reference for morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, and discourse. For all contributions, the priority of a typological and cross-linguistic perspective is high: articles on one language only are welcome if of interest to the generalist/universalist. Likewise, interdisciplinary studies are welcome to the extent that they have the same perspective.

    Contributions should be in the English language only. Articles previously published or under consideration by another journal cannot be accepted.

    Submission

    Preferably, manuscripts should be submitted online. Please consult the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper. For specifics such as typing format, illustrations and tables, references, glosses etc. please consult the SL style sheet on this website.

    If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact (one of) the editors:

    Katharina Haude   Nicole Kruspe
    CNRS   Lunds University
    SeDyl / CELIA   Centre for Languages and Literature
    F-94801 VILLEJUIF CEDEX   P.O. Box 201
    France   SE-221 00 LUND

      Sweden
    katharina.haude at cnrs.fr   nicole.kruspe at ling.lu.se

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