Journal of Japanese Linguistics

Submission

JJL invites submissions that fall under the following categories:

1. empirically oriented, descriptive work that includes original observations of linguistic phenomena
2. theoretical application to empirical work
3. experimental work that evaluates a linguistic theory
4. discussion of linguistic issues problematic to language pedagogy and/or pedagogical implications of (1) or (2)

JJL also publishes special issues. If you are interested, please contact the editor.

Your benefits of publishing with us

• High quality manuscript processing
• Optional open access publication
• Every article easily discoverable because of SEO and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
• Secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico

Submission process

• Please format your manuscript according to the JJL template and the De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet. The respective files can be found on this website on the 'Overview' tab under the heading 'Supplementary Files'.
• The manuscript, including inquiries regarding book reviews (500-750 words), should be sent as Word and PDF files to mminami@sfsu.edu as an attachment.
• The journal operates an anonymous peer review process.
• Please attach a 200-word abstract of the article in a separate document, which also specifies the title and the author's name, affiliation, and mailing address. Areas of study to which the article may be of particular interest (such as formal syntax or conversational analysis) should be listed at the end of the abstract.
• The reviewing process takes on average two months. Submissions are sent to 2–3 reviewers. You will be informed by e-mail if your manuscript has been accepted or rejected or if it requires further attention. Every effort is made to respond to authors in a timely manner.
• If accepted: you have the option to publish your contribution open access.

Please note

• Before submitting your article please have a look at our Publication Ethics Statement and our copyright agreement
• Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it open access.
• Our repository policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract
• If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ page for journal authors.

We look forward to receiving your manuscript!

Hybrid Open Access
Authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. The standard article processing charge for a hybrid open access article is 2,000 Euro (plus VAT if applicable). Please note that corresponding authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement, can publishing open access without paying the fee. More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found here.

Editor-in-Chief
Masahiko Minami (San Francisco State University, USA)

Honorary Editors
Masayoshi Shibatani (Rice University, USA)
Taro Kageyama (National Institute for Japanese Language & Linguistics, Japan)
Yukinori Takubo (National Institute for Japanese Language & Linguistics, Japan)
Mineharu Nakayama (The Ohio State University, USA)

Editorial Board
Makiko Hirakawa (Chuo University, Japan)
Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Kaoru Horie (Kansai Gaidai University, Japan)
Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University, Japan)
Kikuo Maekawa (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan)
Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University, USA)
Toshiyuki Ogihara (University of Washington, USA)
Shigeko Okamoto (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Tsuyoshi Ono (University of Alberta, Canada)
Koji Sugisaki (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

Editorial Assistant
Keiko Yukawa (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

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