The ''Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris'' (abbr. ''BSL'' or ''BSLP'') is an academic journal published by the

Société de Linguistique de Paris The Société de Linguistique de Paris (established 1864) is the editing body of the ''BSL'' (''Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique'') journal A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a met ...

since 1869.

The journal

Published annually, the journal contains two separate volumes: one of articles, and one dedicated to the review of books recently published in linguistics. The journal's coverage includes most traditional subdisciplines within

linguistics Linguistics is the science, scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure ...

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: # to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages # ...

(with a strong tradition of

Indo-European studies Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...

and

comparative grammar Comparative linguistics, or comparative-historical linguistics (formerly comparative philology) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic relatedness ...

, but also studies of other families); linguistic typology;

theoretical A theory is a rational type of abstract thinking about a phenomenon, or the results of such thinking. The process of contemplative and rational thinking is often associated with such processes as observational study or research. Theories may be ...

and

descriptive linguistics In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or how it was used in the past) by a speech community. François & Ponsonnet (2013). All acad ...

; history of linguistics; natural language processing; language acquisition, and so forth.

Related series

* ''Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris'
(list of publications)
* ''Collection linguistique de la Société de Linguistique de Paris'
(list of publications)

External links

Journal online

Publisher's site

Digitized versions of the first 37 volumes of the ''BSLP'', 1869-1940
(site of ''Gallica'', Bibliothèque nationale de France) Linguistics journals French-language journals French-language literature Publications established in 1869 1869 establishments in France {{ling-journal-stub