Journal of East Asian Linguistics

It is an important policy of the journal to welcome any contribution regardless of the theoretical framework in which the research is carried out. Any piece of work, as long as it provides a formal analysis of observed data, or formulates descriptive generalizations calling for an analysis, will be seriously considered.

Typestyles

Use simple text style, italics, or boldface only. Leave the use of other typestyles to the discretion of the copy editor.

Boldfaces are used for emphasized material within indented examples or italicized cited forms as in the following: the letter m in grammaticality, or the word otagai in karera-ga otagai-o hihansita. They are also used for headings of sections of an article. Italics or underlines should be used for material cited as a linguistic example (within a text), the title of books, journals, dissertations, proceedings, and where necessary, emphases (emphasis?  I’m not sure if you want it to be singular or plural) in the text. They are also used for headings for sub-sections of articles.

Punctuation

Capitals are used as required by standard punctuation rules. Capitalize names of rules, conditions, principles, and abstract symbols for tenses, case markers, etc. Where possible, avoid expressions set completely in capitals: Passivization, the Case Filter, Scrambling, the 3rd Tone Sandhi Rule, Agr (not AGR), Acc (not ACC), Nom (not NOM), Perf (not PERF), but ECP, CED (not Ecp, Ced).

Double quotes are used for quotations of non-linguistic examples and for titles of articles. Single quotes are used for quotes within quotes but primarily they are used for glosses, both in the text and following indented examples: the expression daremo 'everyone', in the following sentence:

1. Masao-ga      daremo-ni        sensei-o       syokai-sita.
2. Masao-Nom  everyone-Dat  teacher-Acc introduced
3. ‘Masao introduced the teacher to everyone.’

Where a period or comma occurs adjacent to a quotation mark, it follows single quotes when they are used for glosses in the text:  the forms zibun 'self', karezisin 'himself', kanozyozisin 'herself', etc. In other instances, a period or comma precedes a quotation mark. This is the case when single quotes are used to enclose the full-sentence translation of an indented example, as in (1) above. It is also the case with all instances of the use of double quotes, as in the following example: The "surprising asymmetries," as they have come to be called, are not surprising at all.

The use of other adjacent punctuation marks depends on the actual situation: I know he did not say "is it grammatical?", but did he say "it is grammatical"?  

Ellipsis in cited material is indicated by three spaced periods. Where the ellipsis occurs at the end of a sentence, the three periods are followed by the original punctuation mark at the end of the cited material.

Where a raised footnote reference number occurs adjacent to a punctuation mark, it always occurs after the punctuation.

Conventions and Representations

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Example Sentences

In the text, all examples should be numbered with Arabic numerals enclosed in parentheses. If several examples are cited together as a group, use a numeral enclosed in parentheses for the whole group, and a lowercase letter of the alphabet followed by a period for each example. Align the first words of all examples (excluding diacritics for grammaticality status) with one another. In the text, examples and subexamples are referred to by their numbers and letters enclosed in parentheses, as in (5), (7a), (8b), etc.

In footnotes, examples are numbered using lowercase Roman numerals: (i), (ii), (iiia), etc.

Each example sentence in languages other than English must be translated into English twice. First give a word-for-word gloss, and then an idiomatic translation. The word-for-word glosses should be neatly aligned under the original forms, and the idiomatic translation follows on the next line, enclosed in single quotes.

Zhangsan.'

Transliterations and Orthography

All examples from languages not using the Latin alphabet, in particular all East Asian languages, must be transliterated using one of a few familiar systems of transliteration. Authors are urged to choose from the systems that are most widely used by linguists. The single most important requirement is that authors use their chosen system consistently throughout the manuscript. Where no standard system has been adopted in the literature (e.g., examples of certain dialects never described before), use symbols to represent sounds that are as close to the IPA symbols as possible, and give explanations where appropriate. Where a transliteration system is already used in the literature, no new transliteration system invented by the author will be accepted.

Unless they are the subjects of discussion, omit all tone and pitch accent marks. Likewise, unless required by the discussion, avoid using the orthographic systems of Chinese, Japanese and Korean. If these systems are used, make sure that the written symbols are clear.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and should not be over-used for speculations and identification of potential problems that are not worked out in the text.  They are sequentially numbered throughout the text and placed at the end of the text, beginning on a new page following the heading Notes.  Footnotes should be enumerated using whole numbers. For instance, footnotes like “12a” are unacceptable. All notes should be typed double-spaced throughout.   In the text, reference to each note is indicated by a raised numeral following the relevant material in the text. Where adjacent to a punctuation mark, the raised number follows it.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section after the Footnotes and before the References.

References

In the text, all bibliographical citations should be given in forms such as the following: Kim (1981:56-77), Lasnik and Saito (1991), Chomsky (1986b:34f and 1995:86-90). The date of publication is not parenthesized if the reference is itself part of a parenthesized expression: . . . (see, for example, Chao 1968).

All bibliographical entries are alphabetically arranged according to the last name of the author (or the first author of a joint work), beginning on a separate page following the footnotes and acknowledgements, under the heading References. The first names of all authors should be given in full if known, except when a given author regularly uses only initials. Each entry is arranged with a "hanging" indent, and typed double-spaced throughout. If a title is transliterated from a foreign language, give a free translation, enclosed in square brackets, immediately following the title. (These guidelines, as exemplified below, follow the Chicago Manual of Style, For further guidance, see the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide on the world wide web at:  http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

• Journal article:

Fukui, Naoki. 1988. LF extraction of naze: some theoretical implications. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 4: 503-526.

Han, Chung-Hye. 2006. Variation in form-meaning mapping between Korean and English counterfactuals. Journal of East Asian Linguistcis 15:167-193.

Hauser, Marc, Noam Chomsky, and W. Tecumseh Titch. 2002. The faculty of language. Science 198:1569-1579.

Zhu, Dexi. 1985. Hanyu fangyan-le de liang-zhong fanfu wenju [Two types of A-not-A question in Chinese dialects]. Zhongguo Yuwen 10-20

• Book:

Chao, Yuen-Ren. 1986. A grammar of spoken Chinese. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.

Hale, Ken and Samuel Jay Keyser, eds. 1996. The view from building 20: essays in linguistics in honor of Sylvain Bromberger.  Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.

Zhu, Dexi (1982) Yufa jiangyi [Lecture notes on grammar]. Beijing: Shangwu Yinshuguan.

• Book chapter:

Miyagawa, Shigeru. 2001. The EPP, scrambling, and wh-in-situ. In Ken Hale: A life in language. Ed. by Michael Kenstowicz, 293-338.  Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.

Peyraube, Alain. 1996. Recent issues in Chinese historical syntax.  In New horizons in Chinese linguistics, ed. by C.-T. James Huang and Y.-H. Audrey Li, 161-214. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Fiengo, Robert, C.-T. James Huang, Howard Lasnik and Tanya Reinhart. 1989. The syntax of wh-in-situ.  In WCCFL VII, Proceedings of the 7th West Coast Conference on Forma Linguistics, 81-98.

• Dissertation:

Kuno, Masakuzu.  2007. Focusing on negative concord and negative polarity: variations and relations.  Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.

Yip, Moira. 1980. The tonal phonology of Chinese. Doctoral dissertation, MIT.

• Others:

Frisch, Mathias. 2007. Does a low-entropy constraint prevent us from influencing the past? PhilSci archive. <http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003390> Accessed 26 June 2007.

Hiraiwa, Ken. 2002. Multiple Agree. Paper presented at the 25th GLOW Colloquium, Utrecht.

Wexler, Kenneth. To appear. Lenneberg’s dream: Learning, normal language development and specific language impairment.  In Variations and universals in biolinguistics, ed. by Lyle Jenkins. Ms., 2002, MIT.

Permissions

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Abstract

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Proofs

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