LINGUIST List 18.2924

Sun Oct 07 2007

Calls: General Ling/English Language and Linguistics (Jrnl)

Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org>

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Message 1: English Language and Linguistics
Date: 05-Oct-2007
From: Denis Jamet <djametuniv-lyon3.fr>
Subject: English Language and Linguistics
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Full Title: English Language and Linguistics

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2008

The e-journal Lexis is planning to publish its third issue, devoted toLinguistic Borrowing in English, in October 2009. We are inviting papersdealing with the richness and diversity of loan words in English ingeneral, as well as papers dealing with such questions as the loan wordcontribution of specific languages to English, the historical dimension,the motivation and remotivation of loan words, the various processes ofassimilation and adaptation, the processes of transfer and shift etc, thislist being far from exhaustive. Manuscripts may be written in French or inEnglish, and should be accompanied by an abstract of up to 10 lines inFrench and in English, as well as a list of the relevant key words. Theyshould be sent to the Editor of Lexis, Denis Jamet as email attachments(Word and pdf), and will be refereed by two members of the internationalevaluation committee. Manuscripts may be rejected, accepted subject torevision, or accepted as such. There is no limit to the number of pages.

Deadline for sending in abstracts : 1st February 2008.Deadline for sending in papers accepted : March 2009.

If you plan to submit a manuscript, whether individually or collectively,please advise Aurélia Paulin or Jennifer Vince, who are in charge of thisissue of Lexis, as soon as possible.

Abstracts and articles will be sent via email at lexisuniv-lyon3.fr

- October 2007 : call for papers

- February 2008 : deadline for sending in abstracts to Lexis

- March 2008 : Evaluation Committee's decisions notified to authors

- September 2008 : deadline for sending in papers

- October to December 2008 : proofreading of papers by the Evaluation committee

- January to March 2009 : authors' corrections

- March 2009 : deadline for sending in final versions of papers.