''Word'', an

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

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 ...

issued four times a year, is the publication of the

International Linguistic Association The International Linguistic Association (ILA) was founded in 1943 as the Linguistic Circle of New York. Its founding members were academic linguists in the New York area, including many members of the École Libre des Hautes Études in exile. The m ...

(ILA). Founded in 1943 as the Linguistic Circle of New York, the ILA became one of the main sources of new ideas in American Linguistics at that time. Its journal ''Word'' was founded in 1945 with a mission to disseminate the scholarly discussion of the day and to become the journal of record for general linguistics. During several decades of intellectual ferment in linguistics, the scholarship published by ''Word'' continued to record the expansion of linguistic ideas - both theoretical and applied. Today, ''Word'' continues its broadly-based mission to reflect and record contemporary linguistic scholarship. Among published articles,

Louis Hjelmslev Louis Trolle Hjelmslev (; 3 October 189930 May 1965) was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics. Born into an academic family (his father was the mathematician Johannes Hjelmslev), Hjelmslev studie ...

's significant work issued in ''Word'' in 1954 — "La stratification du langage" (Volume 10, 1954);

Jean Berko Gleason Jean Berko Gleason (born 1931) is a psycholinguist and professor emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University who has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of language acquisition in children ...

's Wug test debuted in ''Word'' in 1958 — "The Child's Learning of English Morphology" (Volume 14, 1958); Charles Ferguson's "Diglossia" was published in ''Word'' (Volume 15, 1959);

M.A.K. Halliday Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model of language. His grammatical descri ...

's first journal paper on

systemic-functional linguistics # * Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is an approach to linguistics, among functional linguistics, that considers language as a social semiotic system. It was devised by Michael Halliday, who took the notion of system from J. R. Firth, his ...

— "Categories of the theory of grammar" — appeared in ''Word'' (Volume 17, 1961); and

William Labov William Labov ( ; born December 4, 1927) is an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of ...

's very first journal article — "The social motivation of a sound change" — was in ''Word'' (Volume 19, 1963). Each issue contains articles and reviews. Occasionally, special issues on specific topics are produced. Such issues have dealt with: Language and language planning (30/1979); The Spanish and Portuguese language in the Western Hemisphere (33/1982); Text linguistics (37/1986); Systemic linguistics (40/1989). Papers from the 1991 conference on

Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, ...

Linguistics have also been published in ''Word''.

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