Theoretical Linguistics
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Editor-in-Chief:
Manfred Krifka
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Edited by:
Hans-Martin Gärtner
About this journal
Starting 2025, Theoretical Linguistics will be transferred to Gold Open Access on a year-by-year basis. All articles will thus immediately appear under the Creative Commons license CC-BY. There will be no publication costs for the authors. The Open Access transformation is based on Subscribe-to-Open, an alternative model that enables the full Open Access transformation of journals through the continuation of existing subscriptions. The prerequisite for successful transformation is that subscriptions are continued to the same extent as before. The editors of Theoretical Linguistics and the publisher De Gruyter would therefore like to thank all subscribers for their support, which has made the transformation to Open Access possible.
Theoretical Linguistics is an open peer review journal. Each issue contains one long target article about a topic of general linguistic interest, together with several shorter reactions, comments and reflections on it. With this format, the journal aims to stimulate discussion in linguistics and adjacent fields of study, in particular across schools of different theoretical orientations.
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March 5, 2025
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Issue 3-4Speaker judgments alone cannot diagnose syllable structure
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Issue 1-2Reflections on Theoretical Linguistics; Issue Editors: Hans-Martin Gärtner, Manfred Krifka
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Issue 3-4The information status of iconic enrichments: modelling gradient at-issueness
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Issue 1-2Wh-questions in dynamic inquisitive semantics
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Issue 3-4Subregular linguistics: bridging theoretical linguistics and formal grammar
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Issue 1-2Slavic languages – “SVO” languages without SVO qualities?
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Issue 3-4Another way to look at counterfactuals
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Issue 1-2General linguistics must be based on universals (or nonconventional aspects of language)
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Issue 3-4Truthmaker semantics for natural language: Attitude verbs, modals, and intensional transitive verbs
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Issue 1-2Focus and contrastive topic in questions and answers, with particular reference to Turkish Target Article: Beste Kamali, Manfred Krifka, Issue Editors: Hans-Martin Gärtner, Beáta Gyuris
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Issue 3-4Current Work on Historical Linguistics Target Articles: Anne Breitbarth, Ailís Cournane, Gerhard Jäger, George Walkden, Issue Editor: Hans-Martin Gärtner
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Issue 1-2Communication as commitment sharing: speech acts, implicatures, common ground
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Issue 3-4Visible Meaning: Sign language and the foundations of semantics
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Issue 1-2Shifting animacy
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Issue 3-4Reference Across Pathologies: A New Linguistic Lens on Disorders of Thought
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Issue 1-2Fictional Names in Psychologistic Semantics
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Issue 3-4Stratified reference: the common core of distributivity, aspect, and measurement
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Issue 1-2Monotonicity and the Typology of Front/Back Harmony
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Issue 3-4Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics
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Issue 1-2A probabilistic reconciliation of coherence-driven and centering-driven theories of pronoun interpretation
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Issue 3-4Event Structure, Conceptual Spaces and the Semantics of Verbs
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Issue 1-2Are lexical categories universal? The view from Chamorro
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Issue 3-4On the linguistic status of ‘agreement’ in sign languages
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Issue 1-2Abstractions and idealisations: The construction of modern linguistics
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Issue 2-3Referential CPs and DPs: An operator movement account
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Issue 1Parameters in minimalist theory: The case of Scandinavian
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Issue 2-3A constraint on copy deletion
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Issue 1Austronesian Nominalism and its consequences: A Tagalog case study
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Issue 3Be Articulate: A pragmatic theory of presupposition projection
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Issue 2Priming and unidirectional language change
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Issue 1Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis
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Issue 3Data in generative grammar: The stick and the carrot
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Issue 2The expressive dimension
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Issue 1Phase Extension Contours of a theory of the role of head movement in phrasal extraction
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Issue 3On the semantic motivation of syntactic verb movement to C in German
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Issue 2A theoretical synopsis of Evolutionary Phonology
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Issue 1There is no opposition between Formal and Cognitive Semantics
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Issue 3On the limits of the Davidsonian approach: The case of copula sentences
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Issue 1-2Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure / Sound Patterns of Syntax: Object Shift
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Issue 1-2Comparative markedness
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Issue 3The Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to linguistic meaning
Journal Impact Factor | 0.3 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
5-year Journal Impact Factor | 1.2 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
Journal Citation Indicator | 0.26 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
CiteScore | 0.6 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
SCImago Journal Rank | 0.241 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 0.414 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Please contact the editors at theoretical.linguistics@leibniz-zas.de and hmgaertner@nytud.hu before submitting any manuscripts. include title and abstract in the body of the e-mail message.
Form of manuscript. All pages should be numbered. The first should include the article, title, and the author's name and affiliation. It should also include name and mailing address to be used for correspondence and transmission of proofs. The second page should include a list of symbols used in the article and the number of pages, number of tables, and number of figures. It should also contain a proposed running head of less than 65 characters. The third page should contain an abstract of about 100 words.
Style guidelines. When preparing a manuscript, authors should refer to the De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet, especially regarding the proper format for citations and reference entries.
Tables. Tables are to be numbered consecutively with Roman numerals. Each table should be typed, doublespaced, with due regard for the proportions of the printed page. Footnotes to tables should be identified by superscript letters and placed at the bottom of the page containing the table.
Footnotes in text. Footnotes in the text should be identified by superscript numbers and listed consecutively on a separate page.
Figures. All illustrations are to be considered as figures, and each graph, drawing, or photograph should be numbered in sequence with arabic numerals. Original finished art work of all illustrations should be furnished. Photographic illustrations should not be used unless indispensable. Each figure should have a descriptive legend. Figures should be planned to fit the proportion of the printed page (11,4 x 17,8 cm = 4 3/8 x 6 7/8 inch), and care should be taken that lettering on the original is large enough to be legible after a reduction of 50 to 60%. Each figure should be identified in a margin with the name of the journal, author's name, and figure number.
Formulas and linguistic examples. Formulas, words, phrases, or sentences to which reference is made in the text should be numbered with arabic numerals; they should be referred to by citing the assigned numeral enclosed in parentheses.
Corrections. Authors are asked to check their manuscripts very carefully before submitting them in order to prevent delays and extra costs at the proof stage. In-text citations should be checked against listings in the References section to be sure that publication dates and the spelling of names match, and that all works cited are listed, and vice versa.
Proofs. Authors will receive electronic proofs (PDF format) for correction which must be returned by dates determined by the publishers.
Offprints. Upon publication, authors will receive electronic offprints (in PDF format). Guest editors and contributors to special issues will receive a complimentary print copy of the issue.
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Editor-in-Chief
Manfred Krifka
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Pariser Straße 1
10719 Berlin
Germany
Email: theoretical.linguistics@leibniz-zas.de
Co-Editor
Hans-Martin Gärtner
Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (Hungarian Research Network, HUN-REN) P.O. Box 360
1394 Budapest
Hungary
Email: hmgaertner@nytud.hu
Associate Editors
Stefan Hinterwimmer (Hamburg University, Germany)
Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California, USA)
Jens Michaelis (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Ryan Nefdt (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland, USA)
Pilar Prieto (Universitat Pompeu Fabra at Barcelona, Spain)
Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Rebecca Woods (Newcastle University, UK)
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