Linguistics
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Editor-in-Chief:
Volker Gast
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Open Accces from 2022
Starting with volume 60 (2022), Linguistics is transformed into a Diamond Open Access journal thanks to our subscribers participating in the Subscribe to Open (S2O) project. All current content will be published under a Creative Commons License (CC-BY 4.0) at no cost to authors and will be freely available to readers.
All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted.
Objective
Linguistics publishes articles addressing research questions of current or general relevance that make a significant contribution to our understanding of human language as a system of communication or a cognitive, social and historical phenomenon. This includes aspects of grammatical organization (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax) as well as questions of meaning and use (semantics, pragmatics, discourse). Studies may deal with linguistic systems as instantiated in speaking, signing, writing and other modes of communication, as well as the language users themselves and their communities (e.g. psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics). The focus may be on one or several languages, the perspective may be synchronic or diachronic, the methodology may be qualitative or quantitative, and the approach may be exploratory or confirmatory. Linguistics publishes up to two special issues a year in these areas, for which it welcomes proposals.
Article formats
Articles and Replies
Your Benefits
- Comprehensive overview of traditional disciplines of linguistics as well as neighboring disciplines
- In-depth analysis of language within various subfields of linguistics
- Ground-breaking interdisciplinary research from the language sciences
- Rigorous peer-review
History
Linguistics was launched in 1963 by the Dutch publisher, Mouton (now De Gruyter Mouton) based in the Hague. It was initially called “Linguistics: An International Review”. Read more
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Journal Impact Factor | 1.1 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
5-year Journal Impact Factor | 1.4 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
Journal Citation Indicator | 1.08 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
CiteScore | 3.0 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
SCImago Journal Rank | 0.732 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 2.258 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Submission
You can easily submit your manuscript online. Simply go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ling and you will be guided through the whole peer-reviewing and publishing process. Please see the Information for authors before submitting or the special guidelines for Registered Reports (Both the Information for Authors file and the Registered Reports file can be found on this website on the 'Overview' tab under the heading 'Supplementary Files'). If you have any more questions, you can contact linguistics@uni-jena.de
Your benefits of publishing with us
- From 2022: open access publication through Subscribe to Open (S2O).
- Accepted papers will be published online first as DOI-citable, forward-linked articles for quickest possible visibility for the scientific community.
- 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
- Submission of your paper through ScholarOne Manuscripts online submission system.
- Double-blind peer-review process (you will be guided through every step).
- All articles are reviewed by at least two independent, expert peer-reviewers.
- You will receive a first decision on your paper approx. 20 weeks after submission.
- Articles are published approx. 18 weeks after first decision.
- Publication online and in print.
Please note
- Please see the De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet for further information regarding the proper formatting of your manuscript.
- All initial submissions are checked for plagiarism via Crossref Similarity Check.
- Before submitting your article please have a look at our Information for authors, Publication Ethics Statement.
- If you have any general questions, please visit our FAQ page for journal authors.
We look forward to receiving your manuscript!
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Editorial
Linguistics Editorial Office
Department of English and American Studies
University of Jena
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8
D-07743 Jena
Germany
e-mail: linguistics@uni-jena.de
Editor-in-Chief
Volker Gast
University of Jena, Germany
Editorial Board
Harald Baayen, University of Tübingen, Germany
Sonia Colina, University of Arizona, USA
Östen Dahl, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Nick Enfield, University of Sydney, Australia
Ricardo Etxepare, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/French National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Beth Levin, Stanford University, USA
Yen-hui Audrey Li, University of Southern California, USA
Caroline Rowland, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
Board of Consulting Editors
Patrícia Amaral, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Matthew Baerman, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Heike Behrens, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Delia Bentley, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Ruth Berman, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Walter Bisang, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Denis Creissels, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
William Croft, University of New Mexico, New Mexico, USA
Henrik De Smet, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Stephen M. Dickey, The University of Kansas, Kansas, USA
Mark Dingemanse, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dagmar Divjak, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Michael Dunn, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Sam Featherston, University of Tuebingen, Tübingen, Germany
Christiane Fellbaum, University of Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Ad Foolen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Mirjam Fried, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
Matthias Gerner, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
Nancy Hedberg, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Henriette Hendriks, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Daniel Hole, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Sunwoo Jeong, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Andrew Jessop, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
Evelien Keizer, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Ekkehard König, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Martin Kümmel, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Tübingen, Germany
Robert Ladd, The Universty of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Natalia Levshina, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Jo-Wang Lin, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Åshild Næss, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Iván Ortega-Santos, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Chongwon Park, University of Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Isabel Pérez-Jiménez, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
Timo Roettger, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Mamoru Saito, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan
Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Joanna Ut-seong Sio, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Andrew Spencer, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Shiao Wei Tham, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Sze-Wing Tang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
Jacqueline Visconti, Genoa University, Genoa, Italy
Liulin Julie Zhang, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
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