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Annual Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2026

Brian D. Joseph
Brian D. Joseph*
Affiliation:
Columbus, Ohio, April 15, 2006
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As one of my annual obligations as editor, I am asked, on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in January, to file a report with the LSA Executive Committee in which I detail and discuss activities and issues pertaining to the running of the journal, highlight any new developments of note, and generally address any matters that either the Executive Committee or I myself consider to be important or noteworthy in some respect. Following what has become my usual procedure for fulfilling this obligation, I give below, in place of my more usual editorial comments in this section of the journal, my fourth ‘State of the Journal’ report, summing up the events of my fourth year on the job. The version given below is essentially the form in which the report was submitted to the Executive Committee in January, though I have taken the liberty of adding some informational updates in footnotes, correcting some errors, and embellishing and elaborating here and there as appropriate.

Information

Type
The Editor's Department
Information
Language , Volume 82 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 466 - 474
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 by Linguistic Society of America

References

1 And, at the point now of preparing this report for publication, the September issue is full and the December is already half-full; Language marches on!

2 Not included here.

3 That indeed did happen, and though it presumably is already well known, inasmuch as I mentioned it in my March 2006 Editor's Department (Language 82.1.5-8) and his name now appears on the inside cover of the journal, I nonetheless state for the record in the official venue of this report that Dr. Gregory T. Stump of the University of Kentucky has taken over as the new review editor for Language.

4 The most important development postdating this report is the Executive Committee's decision to make eLanguage a separate and distinct entity from the print journal. This and other relevant aspects are discussed in my March Editor's Department, and in that issue as well there appears a ‘Request for proposals’ from prospective editors of eLanguage.

5 Not included here.

6 A book notice list covering books received since February 2005 was posted in February of this year, with the proviso that any notices generated from that list would not appear in print but rather would be published in electronic form.

7 As indeed they now have.

8 Not included here.

9 Here is as suitable a place as any for an official announcement of the new associate editors, the nominations of whom were approved by the Executive Committee after the filing of this report; they are: Farrell Ackerman, Jennifer Cole, Nicholas Rollo David Evans, and Laura Michaelis.

10 Moreover, the Executive Committee at the January meeting approved a resolution of thanks recognizing Stan's important contributions to all of us in the LSA.