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.