''Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences'' is a

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of general

linguistics Linguistics is the 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. Lingu ...

published by

De Gruyter Mouton Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...

. The journal publishes both articles and book reviews. It publishes two special issues a year. The current Editor-in-Chief is Johan van der Auwera. Since 2010, it publishes 1400 pages per year.

History

''Linguistics'' was started in 1963 by Mouton Publishers in

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, apparently on the initiative of Mouton's Peter de Ridder as well as linguist C.H. van Schooneveld.Johan van der Auwera: Linguistics, the first 50 years, 2013
In 1979, after Mouton had been bought by Walter de Gruyter, a new editorial board was established, consisting of

Brian Butterworth Brian Lewis Butterworth FBA (born 3 January 1944) is emeritus professor of cognitive neuropsychology in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, England. His research has ranged from speech errors and pauses, shor ...

Bernard Comrie Bernard Sterling Comrie, (; born 23 May 1947) is a British-born linguist. Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology, linguistic universals and on Caucasian languages. Early life and education Comrie was born in Sunderland, England on 23 Ma ...

Östen Dahl Östen Dahl (; born 4 November 1945 in Stockholm) is a Swedish linguist and professor best known for pioneering a marker-based approach to tense and aspect in linguistic typology. Dahl finished his PhD at the University of Gothenburg and subsequ ...

, Norbert Dittmar, Flip Droste, Jaap van Marle, and Jürgen Weissenborn. De facto,

was editor-in-chief between 1979 and 1982. From 1982 through 2005, the editor was

Wolfgang Klein Wolfgang Klein (28 January 1941 – 15 September 2017) was a German athlete. He competed in the men's long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He later became a lawyer and served as the president of the football club Hamburger SV Hamburg ...

, who was succeeded by Johan van der Auwera.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: The journal has a Thomson Reuters 2015

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of 0.763 and a 5-year impact factor of 0.872.

References

External links

* Linguistics journals Bimonthly journals English-language journals Publications established in 1963 De Gruyter academic journals {{ling-journal-stub