Natural Language & Linguistic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and generative linguistics. It was established in 1983 and originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Since 2004 the journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania).
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| Discipline | Theoretical linguistics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Julie Anne Legate |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1983-present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 0.845 (2015) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Nat. Lang. Linguist. Theory |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0167-806X (print) 1573-0859 (web) |
| JSTOR | 0167806X |
| OCLC no. | 863227917 |
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The journal carries a "Topic-Comment" column (initiated by Geoffrey K. Pullum), in which a contributor presents a personal, sometimes controversial, opinion on some aspect of the field.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- Academic OneFile
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index[1]
- Bibliographie linguistique/Linguistic bibliography
- Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences[1]
- Current Contents/Arts and Humanities[1]
- EBSCO databases
- FRANCIS
- International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
- MLA International Bibliography
- PASCAL
- ProQuest databases
- Scopus[2]
- Social Sciences Citation Index[1]
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.845.[3]