We are pleased to finally release the present issue of Historiographia Linguistica, which has been in preparation for some time. Although we received a significantly higher number of proposals than for the latest double issue, this did not result in an earlier date of publication, simply because a relatively high proportion of papers were rejected. These circumstances are reflected in the long list of the reviewers (below) who performed the great service of reviewing and critiquing the submissions. Our deepest thanks go to them all for the care they took in assessing and commenting on the papers we sent to them. When the paper is not accepted, it is of course frustrating to see that one’s work as a reviewer (and as an editor!) will remain invisible to our readership.

Reviewers for the three issues of 2022 (vol. 49.1 and 49.2/3):

Producing more special issues would greatly assist in simplifying the long-term planning of future publications. To this end, we have highlighted the possibility of proposing special issues in the instructions to authors on the journal’s website. We very much look forward to receiving many more proposals for special issues in the future.

In the team of editors, the role of our colleague Ekaterina Velmezova became rather undefined and unclear, all the more so since the job of Konrad Koerner had been devolved to yours truly, that is, to a team of two. At the same time, we felt the need to have a native speaker of English who could help us gauge not only the “naturalness” of the expression but also the intrinsic quality of papers written by non-native English speakers. For these reasons, we kindly asked our colleague Ekaterina Velmezova to accept leaving her position. Ekaterina Velmezova remains an active member of the editorial board.

Our new associate editor, James McElvenny (Universität Siegen, Germany), is a specialist of 19th–20th century linguistics, with a focus on the German-speaking area and notably Georg von der Gabelentz, whose magnum opus Die Sprachwissenschaft he reedited with Manfred Ringmacher. He is also the author of a monography on Ogden and Richards, entitled Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism, and the forthcoming A History of Modern Linguistics: From the beginnings to World War II. He has also written numerous papers on G. von der Gabelentz, Ogden and Richards, Schleicher, Boas, Karl Bühler, the concept of grammaticalization etc. Importantly for us, he has editorial experience in a wide range of formats, including online media. He produces regular podcasts, videos and posts for the website hiphilangsci.net, which he founded and now co-edits with Chloé Laplantine (CNRS, Université Paris Cité & Sorbonne Nouvelle). Historiographia Linguistica and hiphilangsci have a near-symbiotic relationship: a number of posts that have appeared in hiphilangsci have later been expanded by their authors into articles for Historiographia Linguistica. We can only encourage our readers to check out hiphilangsci and contribute to the site. The site hosts all kinds of information about the history of linguistics, including updates on new publications. James McElvenny also serves as editor-in-chief of the open access book series History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences (Berlin, Language Science Press).

We are also glad to welcome our colleague Eleanor Dickey (University of Reading, U. K.) to the editorial board. She is a classicist specializing in Latin and Greek and she has contributed a review to this very issue. We know she is on the look out for good papers in her field, and we thank her for this.

We are most grateful to our review editor Klaas Willems, who has been indefatigably looking for reviewers of books which seemed important to us. Finding referees for papers is not always an easy task, but finding experts willing to contribute a review to our journal can be an arduous undertaking. Let all these colleagues whose work appears in these pages be thanked for their good will and their contribution.

Finally, our gratitude goes to our Benjamins colleagues, Anke de Looper and Susan Hendriks. We take comfort in knowing that we can count on their care, kindness, efficiency and patience.