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Journal of Linguistics Template

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About the Journal of Linguistics format

Journal of Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation, Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Phonetics and Phonology Research.

PublisherCambridge University Press
Reference styleNumbered
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Journal of Linguistics 12 (2023) 45–58.

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Publishes research inSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Linguistic Variation and Morphology Phonetics and Phonology Research Natural Language Processing Techniques Linguistics and language evolution
ISSN0022-2267
Citation impact (2-yr)0.49
h-index123
i10-index725
Total citations60,940
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Edinburgh
Journal websitejournals.cambridge.org
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Papers published in Journal of Linguistics per year

63
2014
53
2015
38
2016
41
2017
72
2018
41
2019
57
2020
51
2021
56
2022
38
2023
48
2024
51
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Linguistics by publication year

738
2014
1K
2015
325
2016
543
2017
1K
2018
250
2019
261
2020
434
2021
195
2022
148
2023
46
2024
15
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Linguistics

Notes on transitivity and theme in English: Part 2

Μ. Α. Κ. Halliday · 1 Oct 1967

Transitivity, mood and theme . Part I of this paper (sections 1–3) was an attempt to sketch some of the principal syntactic options, having the clause as point of origin, that are available to the speaker of English for the representation of processes and relations, and of objects, persons &c. as participants in them. The…

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Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation

James Milroy, Lesley Milroy · 1 Sep 1985

This paper is concerned with the social mechanisms of linguistic change, and we begin by noting the distinction drawn by Bynon (1977) between two quite different approaches to the study of linguistic change. The first and more idealized, associated initially with traditional nineteenth century historical linguistics, involves the study of successive ‘states of the language’,…

1,259 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Against markedness (and what to replace it with)

Martín Haspelmath · 1 Mar 2006

This paper first provides an overview of the various senses in which the terms ‘marked’ and ‘unmarked’ have been used in 20th-century linguistics. Twelve different senses, related only by family resemblances, are distinguished, grouped into four larger classes: markedness as complexity, as difficulty, as abnormality, and as a multidimensional correlation. In the second part of…

Referring and accessibility

Mira Ariel · 1 Mar 1988

The analysis of referring expressions can be divided into two branches for our purposes. The first includes theories of definite descriptions and proper names. The key to the riddle of the appropriate use of such expressions, it was thought, is the notion of presupposition: existence and/or uniqueness. Indeed, this was the question that dominated the…

Journal of Linguistics template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Journal of Linguistics use?
Journal of Linguistics uses Numbered references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Journal of Linguistics 12 (2023) 45–58.
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