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Journal of East Asian Linguistics

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Journal of East Asian Linguistics
TitleJournal of East Asian Linguistics
DisciplineLinguistics
LanguageEnglish
AbbreviationJEAL
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media
CountryNetherlands
FrequencyQuarterly
History1992–present
Issn0921-6546
Eissn1572-8560

Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

The Journal of East Asian Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic periodical focusing on structural, theoretical, and descriptive research concerning languages of East Asia, including linguistic analyses relevant to China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Mongolia, Ryukyu Islands, Sakhalin, and Manchuria. It publishes work that engages with frameworks associated with Generative Grammar, Optimality Theory, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Categorial Grammar, and Lexical-Functional Grammar, often intersecting with fieldwork traditions tied to scholars from University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and University of Tokyo.

History

The journal was established in 1992 during a period of renewed scholarly exchange among institutions such as SOAS University of London, Australian National University, Peking University, Seoul National University, National Taiwan University, Kyoto University, and University of Hong Kong. Early editorial leadership included scholars connected with research networks at Linguistic Society of America, Association for Computational Linguistics, and conferences like Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages. Over successive decades it responded to theoretical shifts influenced by publications from Noam Chomsky, Paul Postal, Richard Kayne, Ray Jackendoff, John S. A. Kaye, and empirical fieldwork models promoted by William Labov and Michael E. Krauss.

Scope and Aims

The journal aims to advance understanding of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics for languages of East Asia and neighboring areas such as Southeast Asia and Central Asia. It encourages comparative studies bearing on typological questions associated with families including Sino-Tibetan languages, Japonic languages, Koreanic languages, Austroasiatic languages, Turkic languages, and Mongolic languages. Special emphasis is placed on interface phenomena linked to works by Ian Roberts, Adrian Brasoveanu, Gennaro Chierchia, David Pesetsky, and Anna Maria Di Sciullo and on documentation efforts in the tradition of Kenneth Hale, Juliette Blevins, and Steve Anderson.

Editorial Board and Publisher

The journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media and managed by an international editorial board drawn from departments such as University of Chicago, Columbia University, University College London, Leiden University, Ewha Womans University, Fudan University, Waseda University, and National University of Singapore. Editors have included figures affiliated with programs at MIT, UCLA, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Cambridge, and guest editors for special issues have been drawn from Yale University, Princeton University, University of Toronto, and Pohang University of Science and Technology.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is indexed in major services used by researchers at Web of Science, Scopus, MLA International Bibliography, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, and library catalogs of institutions such as Library of Congress, National Diet Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and National Library of China. Citations to its articles appear in bibliographies produced by centers including Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and project pages at Doshisha University and Sejong Institute.

Notable Articles and Special Issues

Notable contributions include comparative syntactic analyses engaging with hypotheses advanced by Norvin Richards, Howard Lasnik, Ken Hale, Haj Ross, and Suzanne Flynn, as well as typological surveys that reference corpora from Academia Sinica, Kyoto University Corpus, and field collections curated at Endangered Languages Archive. Special issues have focused on topics associated with research agendas at conferences like Generative Linguistics in the Old World, International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, and workshops sponsored by The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Submission and Peer Review Process

Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's online portal and undergo anonymized peer review by experts affiliated with departments including Indiana University Bloomington, McGill University, University of Edinburgh, University of Oslo, National Taiwan Normal University, and Hanyang University. The review process typically conforms to standards promoted by Committee on Publication Ethics and editorial practices modeled after leading journals such as Language, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and Linguistic Inquiry.

Impact and Reception

The journal is cited in monographs and edited volumes published by presses like Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, De Gruyter, and John Benjamins Publishing Company, and its articles contribute to teaching and research programs at institutions including National Tsing Hua University, Korea University, Osaka University, Zhejiang University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Scholarly reception recognizes its role in bridging descriptive documentation from field projects with formal theoretical inquiry pursued in centers such as Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Santa Fe Institute.

Category:Linguistics journals Category:East Asian studies