diff --git a/author.md b/author.md index 34ea11a..b1ff2cc 100644 --- a/author.md +++ b/author.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ title: Guidelines for authors *Semantics and Pragmatics* (S&P) is a peer-reviewed open access journal, located on the web at . Its mission is to bring the very best articles in semantics, pragmatics and allied subfields, to as wide an audience as possible, at no cost to readers or authors, as quickly as possible. The journal is affiliated with, and electronically published by, the [*Linguistic Society of America*](http://www.linguisticsociety.org/). -S&P is a new kind of journal, leveraging the advances in desktop publishing, open source journal management software, and internet communications infrastructure. Our aim is to publish a high-quality, peer-reviewed journal on a par with the established journals but with two very significant advantages: +S&P leverages advances in desktop publishing, open source journal management software, and internet communications infrastructure. Our aim is to publish a high-quality, peer-reviewed journal on a par with established journals but with two very significant advantages: * fast turn-around from submission to publication, facilitated by the all-electronic journal management plus online publication as soon as an article is ready; * open, immediate, and free access to anyone with an internet connection. @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Subject matter and methodology 5. There is a growing sensitivity to differences between speech and written language,[^1] and to the significance of prosody. Where prosody is established to be significant, it is becoming common for data to be presented along with some form of prosodic transcription. 6. Semantics and Pragmatics are undoubtedly the areas of linguistics which most freely import new formal tools from mathematics, computer science, philosophical logic, and elsewhere. A recent example is the importation of Decision Theory and Game Theory from psychology and economics. - *Advice to authors: We will encourage submissions based on primary data, especially from under-studied languages. Whatever the source of data and judgments, whether naturally occurring or constructed, whether from corpora, consultants or colleagues, we ask that authors are as specific as possible about that source. Information as to the source of data and judgments may be specified in footnotes by each example, in a single summary footnote near the beginning of the paper, or in the main text in case the source of the data is of particular relevance to the claims being made. We strongly encourage authors to consider making data publicly available, for example in the form of text or data files that can be hosted on the site.* + *Advice to authors: We encourage submissions based on primary data, especially from under-studied languages. As a rule, examples from languages other than English should be supplied with interlinear glosses in addition to colloquial translations. These glosses can vary in detail (e.g., word-by-word vs. morpheme-by-morpheme), depending on the phenomenon under investigation. Please follow the Leipzig glossing rules. Whatever the source of data and judgments, whether naturally occurring or constructed, whether from corpora, consultants or colleagues, we ask that authors are as specific as possible about that source. Information as to the source of data and judgments may be specified in footnotes by each example, in a single summary footnote near the beginning of the paper, or in the main text in case the source of the data is of particular relevance to the claims being made. We strongly encourage authors to consider making data publicly available, for example in the form of text or data files that can be hosted on the site.* *Many articles will not make use of corpora or web data, but nowadays all authors must be aware that readers and reviewers have rapid access to corpus and web evidence. It would be as well for authors to forestall potential objections based on these sources by considering for themselves whether any such data might be relevant to their claims prior to submission.*