Language and Linguistics | 語言暨語言學

Main information
Editor-in-Chief
ORCiD logo with linkRui-wen Wu | Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
Associate Editors
ORCiD logo with linkAlvin Cheng-Hsien Chen | National Taiwan Normal University
ORCiD logo with linkI-Ta Chris Hsieh | National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Yen-Hwei Lin | Michigan State University, USA
ORCiD logo with linkChen-Sheng Luther Liu | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Juichuan Yeh | National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Elizabeth Zeitoun | Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Editorial Assistants
Jenny Tzu-Chun Chen | Academia Sinica
Abigail Jen-Hui Wang | Academia Sinica
Sandy Ya-Chu Yang | Academia Sinica

Journal metrics

Impact Factor: 0.3 (5-year: 0.5)
Journal Citation Indicator: 0.20
CiteScore: 0.5
SNIP: 0.638 SJR: 0.519

This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: CNKI Scholar ; Dimensions ; Glottolog ; Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique ; Linguistics Abstracts Online ; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA ) ; MLA International Bibliography ; Scopus ; Taiwan Humanities Citation Index – Level 1 (THCI ) ; WoS Arts & Humanities Citation Index ; WoS Social Sciences Citation Index

Language and Linguistics is an academic publication of the Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica. Established in 2000, it publishes research in general and theoretical linguistics on the languages of East Asia and the Pacific region, including Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, and the Austroasiatic and Altaic language families.

Since 2013, Language and Linguistics has been managed by an Editor-in-Chief, with internationally known scholars with different areas of expertise serving as Associate Editors, Editorial Board Members, and Reviewers, in order to present an informative, insightful scholarly dialogue.
To increase international citation rates and visibility, Language and Linguistics has been co-published with international publisher SAGE from 2014 to 2016 (Volume 15-17) and distributed worldwide. Beginning in 2017 (Volume 18), Language and Linguistics has been in partnership with John Benjamins Publishing Company, one of the leading publishers in the field of language and linguistics.

Language and Linguistics is an Open Access journal and the only international linguistic journal that publishes in both English and Traditional Chinese. The journal publishes a single volume yearly. Four issues are published per volume. Each volume contains three English issues (January, April, and October) and one Chinese issue (July). With original studies and a rigorous review process, the journal is indexed by the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), Bibliographie linguistique/Linguistic bibliography, CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, Linguistics Abstracts, MLA International Bibliography, SCOPUS, CNKI Scholar, Dimensions, Glottolog, and THCI.

Language and Linguistics seeks to provide research that is professional, insightful, and current, and welcomes submissions in all areas of linguistics.

Language and Linguistics publishes its articles Online First.

To submit papers or monographs, please visit https://llsubmit.ling.sinica.edu.tw

For more information of L&L, please visit https://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/item/en

Volumes 1-17 can be freely downloaded from: https://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/item/en?act=journal

Volumes 18 and onward are freely accessible on both L&L’s websiteand on the John Benjamins e-Platform. Most of these volumes were first made Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. It has now (January 2023) been decided to change this to the more liberal CC BY 4.0 license. Please note that while we are in the process of making this change, information about licenses can vary between the Benjamins website, platform and in the articles themselves.

ISSN: 1606-822X | E-ISSN: 2309‑5067
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/lali
IssuesOnline-first articles

Volume 27 (2026)

Volume 26 (2025)

Volume 25 (2024)

Volume 24 (2023)

Volume 23 (2022)

Volume 22 (2021)

Volume 21 (2020)

Volume 20 (2019)

Volume 19 (2018)

Volume 18 (2017)

Editorial info
Editor-in-Chief
ORCiD logo with linkRui-wen Wu | Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
Associate Editors
ORCiD logo with linkAlvin Cheng-Hsien Chen | National Taiwan Normal University
ORCiD logo with linkI-Ta Chris Hsieh | National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Yen-Hwei Lin | Michigan State University, USA
ORCiD logo with linkChen-Sheng Luther Liu | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Juichuan Yeh | National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Elizabeth Zeitoun | Academia Sinica, Taiwan
English Editor
Editorial Assistants
Jenny Tzu-Chun Chen | Academia Sinica
Abigail Jen-Hui Wang | Academia Sinica
Sandy Ya-Chu Yang | Academia Sinica
Editorial Board
Mark C. Baker | Rutgers University
ORCiD logo with linkZhiming Bao | National University of Singapore
ORCiD logo with linkMarc Brunelle | University of Ottawa
Keh-Jiann Chen | Academia Sinica
Gennaro Chierchia | Harvard University
Guglielmo Cinque | University of Venice
ORCiD logo with linkBernard Comrie | University of California, Santa Barbara
Ik-sang Eom | Hanyang University
Hiroya Fujisaki | University of Tokyo
ORCiD logo with linkMartin Haspelmath | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
C.-T. James Huang | Harvard University
Larry M. Hyman | University of California, Berkeley
ORCiD logo with linkDaniel Kaufman | Queens College, CUNY
ORCiD logo with linkChristine Lamarre | Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
Richard K. Larson | Stony Brook University
Paul Jen-kuei Li | Academia Sinica
ORCiD logo with linkChinfa Lien | National Tsing Hua University
Kikuo Maekawa | The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Alec Marantz | New York University
James A. Matisoff | University of California, Berkeley
ORCiD logo with linkJames Myers | National Chung Cheng University
Mamoru Saito | Notre Dame Seishin Women University
Rint Sybesma | Leiden University
Pei-chuan Wei | Academia Sinica
Subscription Info
Current issue: 27:3, available as of July 2026
Next issue: 27:4, expected October 2026

General information about our electronic journals.

Subscription rates

All prices for print + online include postage/handling.

Online-onlyPrint + online
Volume 28 (2027): 4 issues; ca. 1100 pp.Open AccessEUR 616.00
Volume 27 (2026): 4 issues; ca. 800 pp.Open AccessEUR 423.00

Available back-volumes

Online-onlyPrint + online
Complete backset
(Vols. 18‒26; 2017‒2025)
36 issues;
6,700 pp.
Open AccessEUR 2,991.00
Volume 26 (2025) 4 issues; 800 pp.Open AccessEUR 399.00
Volume 25 (2024) 4 issues; 800 pp.Open AccessEUR 363.00
Volume 24 (2023) 4 issues; 800 pp.Open AccessEUR 330.00
Volumes 21‒23 (2020‒2022) 4 issues; avg. 733 pp.Open AccessEUR 324.00 per volume
Volume 20 (2019) 4 issues; 700 pp.Open AccessEUR 318.00
Volume 19 (2018) 4 issues; 700 pp.Open AccessEUR 309.00
Volume 18 (2017) 4 issues; 700 pp.Open AccessEUR 300.00
Author info

Language and Linguistics invites contributions relevant to the aim and scope of the journal, which can be submitted through the journal's online submission portal .

Before submitting, please consult these guidelines.

If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence – inquiries regarding suitable topics, length of manuscripts, reviews, etc. – please contact the editors via e-mail: LLeditor at sinica.edu.tw

Ethics

John Benjamins journals are committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and to supporting ethical research practices.

Authors and reviewers are kindly requested to read this Ethics Statement.

Please also note our statement on the use of Artificial Intelligence.

Rights and Permissions

Authors must ensure that they have permission to use any third-party material in their contribution; the permission should include perpetual (not time-limited) world-wide distribution in print and electronic format. For more information, consult our Rights & Permissions page.

For information on authors' rights, please consult the Author Rights page.

Open Access

As of 2022, Language and Linguistics is published Open Access through sponsorship of Academia Sinica, with no author fees. By default, articles are made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, but other licenses can be discussed at the author's request.

Archiving

John Benjamins Publishing Company has an agreement in place with Portico for the archiving of all its online journals and e-books.

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