Linguistic Typology
Ed. by Plank, Frans
3 Issues per year
ERIH category 2011: INT1
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Aims and Scope
Following the founding of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) in 1994, the launching of the journal Linguistic Typology under the auspices of ALT is another sign that typology is internationally consolidating its position.
Linguistic Typology aims to distinguish itself as a forum for the typological community, catering to its special professional needs. In particular, these concern the empirical dimensions of the typological enterprise and the ensuing demands to coordinate research and keep track of a profusion of data and results. Therefore Linguistic Typology specifically encourages informed dialogue and the proper recording of past and present achievements. Its content structure is diversified, comprising the following regular and occasional elements:
- articles with peer commentary, complementary articles, other interactive formats
- independent articles
- The Implications Register, documenting the implications on record, with known counter-examples, and gradually building up networks of registered implications
- Language Profiles and Family Portraits, from a typological
viewpoint
basic topical bibliographies - The Present Perfect, featuring highlights from typology as done in the past but persisting into the present (hence this section's title)
- reviews, multiple reviews, book notices, literature surveys
Linguistics is about languages, in the plural and with the universal quantifier understood. Typology is simultaneously about the diversity and uniformity of this universe. What typology thrives on is variation across languages; but what makes the typologist's day is co-variation, the discovery that logically independent variables have identical values in one language after another, or at any rate do not show all logically possible combinations of values. Hence typologists' preoccupation with implications, the relationship which holds when two variables are empirically interdependent.
Typological research has been conducted for more than two centuries but, in view of the daunting complexity of its aims, progress was bound to be neither rapid nor comprehensive. Often, too much was lacking for typology to come into its own:
- reliable, in-depth, and accessible information about less well documented languages (and these number in the thousands)
- technology to store, retrieve, and sort the information collected
- well-chosen representative samples
- sound descriptions of the languages sampled, not couched in extraneous formats
- imagination, and perhaps serendipity, in probing for generalizations, and rigour in checking them against the evidence
- theoretical sophistication
- manpower, and, most importantly, mutual
awareness and cooperation
Such shortcomings have not gone unrecognized and unattended. Owing to numerous individual and collective efforts to give languages their due in linguistics, typology has been coming of age over the last few decades. Today's typology, done competently, is at the cutting edge of theoretical linguistics. With no party line to be followed, it will be poised to discover rather than rehash for some time to come. Its potential for applied linguistics is considerable, as is beginning to be appreciated by those who apply linguistics to more than one language. Language description is rarely done these days in blissful ignorance of what is on record about the possibilities and limits of typological variation. Cultural and cognitive anthropology stand to benefit from being pursued in conjunction with a typology that has long shed its ideological biases.
Linguistic Typology is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal of international scope.
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Instructions for Authors
1. Submitting an article for publication
Submit articles and reviews to the Editor in electronic form (preferably .pdf, email-attached), accompanied by one printout.
Linguistic Typology
Sprachwissenschaft
Universität Konstanz
Germany
Tel: +49-7531-882656/-882552
Fax: +49-7531-884190
email: frans.plank@uni-konstanz.de
Do not submit work that has been published previously or is simultaneously being submitted elsewhere.
The normal language of publication is British or American English.
Divide up your contribution as follows, using those words as headings which are capitalized and italicized in (1)–(10):
(1) title of the article, or full bibliographical details of the book reviewed, followed by the name(s) of the author(s);
(2) Abstract of not more than 100 words, followed by 3–5 suggested Keywords (both in the case of articles only);
(3) body of the work, including footnotes;
(4) full Correspondence Address (i.e. snailmail and email);´
(5) Acknowledgements (if any are due);
(6) Abbreviations, ordered alphabetically, as running text;
(7) Appendix (e.g., for texts or the listing of a sample);
(8) References;
(9) special matter (figures, tables, maps, other artwork), to be inserted in the body of the work at typesetting;
(10) any supporting electronic material not to be included in the printed version, but to be made permanently available online on LT ’s website.
2. Peer review
All submissions to LT are peer-reviewed, with the average reviewing time 2–3 months.
3. Formatting and style
When your submission has been accepted, send an electronic text file to the Editor that can be used for copy-editing and typesetting, accompanied by a .pdf and one printout. Especially at this final stage, follow
LT ’s Instructions for Contributors meticulously and avoid anything liable to complicate copy-editing and typesetting from the text file (fancy formatting, unnecessarily complex tables, figures, artwork, unusual fonts for usual characters).4. Proofs
Authors are asked to check their manuscripts very carefully before submitting them in order to prevent delays and extra costs at proofing. Authors will receive PDF proofs for correction which must be returned by dates given in the publication schedule.
5. Offprints
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Linguistic Typology is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services:
- Brill: Bibliographie Linquistique/Linguistic Bibliography
- Celdes
- CNPIEC
- Dietrich's Index Philosophicus
- EBSCO: Academic Search, Academic Source, Communication and Mass Media Index, Current Abstracts
- Elsevier: Scopus
- ERIH: European Reference Index for the Humanities
- Gale/Cengage: Academic One File
- IBR Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Zeitschriftenliteratur
- IBZ Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
- Linguistic Abstracts
- Minerva
- MLA International Bibliography
- ProQuest: Arts & Humanities
- Xolopo
Editor
Frans Plank
Sprachwissenschaft
Universität Konstanz
78457 Konstanz
Germany
e-mail: frans.plank@uni-konstanz.de
Editorial Assistant
Wolfgang Schellinger
Associate Editors
Joan Bresnan (Stanford University, Stanford, USA)
Joan L. Bybee (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)
Guglielmo Cinque (Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia, Italy)
Alice C. Harris (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Larry M. Hyman (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Stockholms Universitet, Sweden)
Stephen C. Levinson (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands)
Marianne Mithun (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Johanna Nichols (University of California at Berkeley, USA)