ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS (ALAL) is a newly-inaugurated international journal, published by John Benjamins Publishing Company with sponsorship from the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Normal University. This journal started in 2020 and will have two issues per year (volume) of 200 pages each. The first issue was published on March 11, 2020. All readers have open access to the inaugural issue. Please visit http://benjamins.com/catalog/alal.1.1 for details.

Asian Languages and Linguistics aims to enhance high-quality research on the description and theoretical analysis of languages throughout Asia. The journal encourages submissions from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to the following:

Theoretical research on the syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, and pragmatics of any Asian language, and the interface studies such as syntax-semantics interface and morphology-phonology interface.

Typological research based on empirical data or theoretical analysis (following any framework) on the structural diversities and cross-linguistic variations among Asian languages or between Asian languages and other languages.

Diachronic research based on a careful investigation of Asian languages data that contribute to the theory or methodology of historical linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary study which links historical linguistics to corpus-based research, language variation, typology, etc.

Cross-disciplinary research between linguistics and philosophy, psychology, language processing, etc. that contributes to the understanding of Asian languages. Contributions from a comparative or typological perspective are especially welcome.

Editors

Danqing Liu Institute of Linguistics, CASS

Ailan Fu Beijing Normal University

Gong Cheng Zhejiang University

Associate Editors

Anvita Abbi Simon Fraser University/Goa University

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald James Cook University

Walter Bisang Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Bernard Comrie University of California, Santa Barbara

Gabi Danon Bar-Ilan University

R.M.W. Dixon James Cook University

N.J. Enfield The University of Sydney

Andrey Filchenko Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Jianhua Hu Institute of Linguistics, CASS

Chenglong Huang Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, CASS

Xing Huang Beijing Normal University

Randy J. LaPolla Nanyang Technological University

Chungmin Lee Seoul National University

Thomas Hun-Tak Lee The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chinfa Lien National Tsing Hua University

Haihua Pan The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jungku Park Seoul National University

Alain Peyraube The French National Centre for Scientific Research

Yukinori Takubo   National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Fuxiang Wu Beijing Language and Culture University

Abdurishid Yakup Minzu University of China

Hongming Zhang University of Wisconsin-Madison

Call for Papers

Asian Languages and Linguistics is a peer-reviewed forum for high-quality linguistic research on Asian languages. Only English papers are accepted. We welcome original papers within the aim and scope of the journal. For further information on the journal, detailed submission guidelines, tables of contents, abstracts, and access to the free sample copy, please visit the website: benjamins.com/catalog/alal.

Asian Languages and Linguistics offers online submission. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site: https://www.editorialmanager.com/alal/default.aspx.

If you have any inquiries, please contact the editors via e-mail: jall@bnuz.edu.cn.