This is the first issue of volume 35 of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics. The NJL is the journal of the Nordic Association of Linguists. Individuals may subscribe to the Journal by joining the Nordic Association of Linguists. The NAL membership form can be found on the Cambridge University Press web site of the NJL, http://journals.cambridge.org/NJL, as well as on the NAL web site, http://www.uef.fi/nal.

As the NJL has had the same editors since 2001, the time seems right for a change. We will here follow a suggestion from our publishers, Cambridge University Press, about a gradual transition. Instead of an abrupt change from one editorial team to another, the NJL has added three associate editors to the team as of this issue, and then in 2014/2015, the present editors will step down, and the associate editors will become the new editors. We are therefore delighted to announce the new associate editors: Matti Miestamo (Stockholm), Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (Vancouver), and Marit Westergaard (Tromsø).

We also welcome three new members of the NJL editorial board: Johanna Barðdal (Bergen), Naja Trondhjem (Copenhagen), and John Tøndering (Copenhagen). These additions to the editorial board replace the three who are leaving the editorial board, Gunnar Ólafur Hansson and Marit Westergaard, as mentioned above, and also Michael Fortescue (Copenhagen). We would like to thank all three for their services to the journal.

We would like to remind our readers and potential contributors that there are three ways to contribute to the NJL: (longer) articles, short communications, and book reviews. We would very much like to encourage contributions to NJL within all three categories, including short communications, which are like articles in being peer-reviewed, but different from articles in that in such communications, it is possible to make or illustrate an empirical point without necessarily giving a fully-fledged and theoretically integrated analysis. Also, short communications are appropriate for comments on earlier publications in the NJL.

We are furthermore happy to announce that the issue 36.2 (2013) of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics will be a special issue devoted to Object Shift in the Nordic languages, edited by Maia Andréasson, Kristine Bentzen, and Elisabet Engdahl. For full details, see the call for papers immediately after this note.

Last, but not least: To all the reviewers who have reviewed papers for the Nordic Journal of Linguistics in the year 2011, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks for your time and effort (also on the part of the editors of the special issue on the Nordic languages and typology, Pål Kristian Eriksen & Camilla Wide). In addition to the members of our Editorial Board, these reviewers include: