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Editorial highs and lows: Some reflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2026

Brian D. Joseph
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In my annual report for 2005, published in Language 82.2 (June 2006), I noted that the end of 2005 meant that I was well past ‘the halfway mark of my editorship’ and that I was therefore ‘on the downhill slope ... of my service’ (p. 466). The final part of that slope began in spirit for me just after the January 2008 LSA annual meeting, some six months ago as I write this. But it has really begun in earnest only in the past month, as my successor has (finally) been selected. This happy turn of events puts me in a position to begin to reflect somewhat on my own term of office.

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Editor's Department
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Language , Volume 84 , Issue 3 , September 2008 , pp. 471 - 473
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Copyright © 2008 Linguistic Society of America

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1 And the winner is . . . Greg Carlson, of the University of Rochester. He still needs to be formally elected to the post, following the LSA's procedures, but as he is running unopposed and since I, for one, intend to vote for him, there is no question of his being elected into office.

2 Bloch, of course, was denied by fate the opportunity to do any reflections at the end of his term since he died in office in 1965.

3 Of course, my annual report for 2008 should appear in an issue of Language in 2009, but I will be safely out of the way as editor at that point. I thank my colleague Hope Dawson for reminding me of this detail, and for numerous excellent suggestions for improving a much-too-rough first draft of these remarks.

4 I say this in each of my annual reports, but it doesn't hurt to repeat it here: I am constantly in awe at the seriousness, the dedication, and the high standards that almost all Language referees bring to the task of reviewing papers. I thus applaud them, loudly and proudly, for the work they do for the journal, the Society, and the field.