Language and Linguistics | 語言暨語言學

Editor-in-Chief
ORCiD logo with linkRui-wen Wu | Academia Sinica, Taiwan | LLeditor at sinica.edu.tw
Associate Editors
ORCiD logo with linkAlvin Cheng-Hsien Chen | National Taiwan Normal University
I-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 Assistant
Jenny Tzu-Chun Chen | Academia Sinica
Abigail Jen-Hui Wang | Academia Sinica
Sandy Ya-Chu Yang | Academia Sinica

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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

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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
Latest articles

26 February 2026

  • Proto-Tibetic *mbras ‘1grain; 2rice’: Comparative reconstruction and dialect subgrouping
    Joanna Bialek | LALI 27:2 (2026) pp. 175–227
  • 6 February 2026

  • Dynamics of L3 lexical representations of Dutch-English-Mandarin trilinguals
    Xiaowen JiNiels Olaf Schiller | LALI 27:2 (2026) pp. 302–323
  • 27 January 2026

  • Applying popular arguments for and against an independent egophoric grammatical category to Thewo Tibetan
    Abe Powell | LALI 27:2 (2026) pp. 257–301
  • 22 January 2026

  • The associative plural in Cantonese
    Pun Ho Lui | LALI 27:2 (2026) pp. 228–256
  • 15 January 2026

  • Exhaustifying conditionals
    Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai | LALI 27:2 (2026) pp. 324–360
  • 13 October 2025

  • Semantic activation of phonetic radicals in Chinese ideophonetic compound processing
    Meng Jiang, Qi Luo, Xia WangTing Cao | LALI 27:1 (2026) pp. 53–72
  • 6 October 2025

  • Acknowledgements
    LALI 26:4 (2025) pp. 789–791
  • 2 October 2025

  • Vietnamese mình : Attitudes, empathy and the blocking effect
    C.-T. Tim ChouTrần Phan | LALI 27:1 (2026) pp. 1–52
  • 26 September 2025

  • The morphosyntax of the sentence-final negative WHAT in Chinese
    Sze-Wing Tang | LALI 27:1 (2026) pp. 103–133
  • 15 September 2025

  • A new form of Chinese passives: Shou-passives
    Ching-Yu Helen Yang | LALI 27:1 (2026) pp. 134–174
  • 5 September 2025

  • Left/right-node-raising in Korean
    Jeong-Seok Kim, Kihoon Kim, Yoo-Jeong KimJin Hyung Lee | LALI 27:1 (2026) p. 73
  • 22 August 2025

  • Latin h- and Tibetan : A reply to Schuessler
    Nathan W. Hill | LALI 26:4 (2025) pp. 622–631
  • 8 August 2025

  • A phonological and lexical profile of Sastod: A non-Amdo Tibetic language of Khrochu (Sichuan)
    Jackson T.-S. Sun | LALI 26:4 (2025) pp. 695–751
  • 5 August 2025

  • Reevaluating two schwa-initial reconstructions in Proto‑ and Pre‑Proto‑Austronesian numerals with some help from Kra‑Dai
    Alexander D. Smith | LALI 26:4 (2025) pp. 673–694
  • Tones of Beijing dialect since 1900 and their evolution: Evidence from early recordings
    Tianheng Wang | LALI 26:4 (2025) pp. 752–788
  • 28 July 2025

  • Automatic detection of phonological change in Chinese rhymed corpora
    Julien Baley | LALI 26:4 (2025) pp. 595–621
  • 20 June 2025

  • 馮勝利施春宏. 2023. 《漢語韻律語法學綱要》 [The Essence of Chinese Prosodic Grammar]
    審查 王浩銘張和友
  • 2 June 2025

  • 西夏語趨向前綴與動詞的趨向可易性
    章舒婭
  • 23 May 2025

  • The syntactic categories of adverbials and the structural integration of complement clauses in Siwkolan Amis
    Wei-Cherng Sam Jheng | LALI 26:4 (2025) pp. 632–672
  • 16 May 2025

  • 台灣混合腔閩南語通行語化的探討──漳泉融合的多種樣態
    陳淑娟
  • 21 April 2025

  • 閩南方言中「遘」的語法化與主觀化以永春方言為例
    顏鈮婷林華勇 | LALI 26:3 (2025) pp. 553–594
  • 18 April 2025

  • 實現—能力藏語動詞的一個重要範疇
    桑吉次力孫凱 | LALI 26:3 (2025) pp. 496–532
  • 15 April 2025

  • 雙域八調從音節音系學和聲調類型學角度看緬甸語聲調
    段海鳳朱曉農 | LALI 26:3 (2025) pp. 387–430
  • 14 April 2025

  • 普通話上聲變調形式的逆向協同發音作用
    東孝拓王韞佳
  • 20 March 2025

  • 從類同到情態副詞「也」的演變
    林怡岑 | LALI 26:3 (2025) pp. 431–466
  • 17 March 2025

  • 粵語位移事件編碼類型再探
    單韻鳴金立鑫 | LALI 26:3 (2025) pp. 467–495
  • 7 March 2025

  • Pitch, vowel duration, and phonation in Baima and neighboring languages
    Katia Chirkova | LALI 26:2 (2025) pp. 224–261
  • 6 March 2025

  • Labialized onsets in Rma
    Nathaniel Aaron Sims | LALI 26:2 (2025) pp. 294–322
  • 24 February 2025

  • Structures under nominalization: A parametric variation in Mandarin and English
    Chen Wang | LALI 26:2 (2025) pp. 355–385
  • 14 February 2025

  • A unified semantic account of Mandarin ordinal phrases
    Yi-Hsun Chen | LALI 26:2 (2025) pp. 199–223
  • 7 February 2025

  • Num-Cl adjacency and the morphological movement of numerals in Mandarin
    Chen Ran | LALI 26:2 (2025) pp. 262–293
  • 3 February 2025

  • Measure schematicity through information content: A quantitative approach to grammaticalization
    Liulin ZhangJiajun Tao | LALI 26:2 (2025) pp. 323–354
  • 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 | LLeditor at sinica.edu.tw
    Associate Editors
    ORCiD logo with linkAlvin Cheng-Hsien Chen | National Taiwan Normal University
    I-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 Assistant
    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
    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
    Chinfa Lien | National Tsing Hua University
    Ian Maddieson | University of New Mexico
    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 | Nanzan University
    Rint Sybesma | Leiden University
    Pei-chuan Wei | Academia Sinica
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