''Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics'' is a

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covering

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that was established in 1949. It is published by

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and the

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is Marta Dynel (

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History

In October 2015 the editors and

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resigned en masse to protest their inability to come to an agreement with Elsevier regarding fair pricing models for

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publishing. They subsequently started a new journal, '' Glossa'' since Elsevier refused to relinquish the rights on the name ''Lingua''. Elsevier has continued ''Lingua'' under new leadership. Within the linguistics community, some consider ''Glossa'' as having inherited the reputation of the earlier journal. Elsevier's continuation is referred to (by some linguists) as ''Zombie Lingua'' and is regarded as a new journal. Following a statement from their linguistics faculties, the University of California Libraries requested that Elsevier cancel their subscription to post-2015 volumes of ''Lingua''. In a joint post on Language Log in 2016, Eric Baković and Kai von Fintel noted lower quality standards at the new ''Lingua'' which included a paper withdrawn due to plagiarism.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2022

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of 1.1.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lingua Linguistics journals Elsevier academic journals Academic journals established in 1949 English-language journals Journals published between 13 and 25 times per year Hybrid open access journals