Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Aims & Scope

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (CLLT) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality original corpus-based research that explicitly tackles an issue in (any) contemporary theory, and/or promises to advance corpus-linguistic methodology, especially in cases where methodological considerations imply or obtain theoretical status. The journal aims to be a forum for researchers from different theoretical backgrounds working on any domain of language (phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces) who share a commitment to the systematic and exhaustive analysis of naturally occurring language. Contributions from all theoretical frameworks are welcome but they should be addressed to a general audience and thus be explicit about their assumptions and discovery procedures and provide sufficient theoretical background to be accessible to researchers from different frameworks. CLLT’s scope excludes most of the important work done in applied linguistics, including areas such as language planning, pedagogy, and policy, stylistics, education, forensic linguistics, and translation research. Similarly, while CLLT welcomes research that employs computational techniques and tools, we make a distinction between computational linguistics (the study of language by means of computational methods), much of which falls within the scope of the journal, and linguistic computing (the study of computational systems and applications that rely on, or involve, language), which falls outside the scope of the journal. CLLT strives to be an outlet for corpus-based research in the world’s diverse languages, and so we welcome studies that are based on any language. In the interest of giving room to a maximally rich represent ation of linguistic diversity, some submissions may be rejected not based on their general quality, but because we want to avert bias towards a minority of languages. Similarly, replication studies (that is, studies that test the power of a previously established theoretical claim, or apply previously employed method, to a different language), while highly important to the field, are unlikely to be published in CLLT, as the main focus of the journal is on promoting novel and innovative work of the highest caliber.

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