This is the first issue of volume 33 of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics. The NJL is the journal of the Nordic Association of Linguists. Individuals may subscribe to the Nordic Journal of Linguistics 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://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics/nal>.

At this point, we usually remind our readers and potential contributors that there are three ways to contribute to the NJL: (longer) articles, short communications, and book reviews. Although our ‘Note from the Editors’ contains this reminder every year, we have to admit that since autumn 2001 the NJL has only published two kinds of contributions: articles and reviews.

We are therefore very pleased that in this issue of the NJL, there are two examples of the third kind of contribution, namely the short communications. Such communications are like articles in that they are peer-reviewed, but they are different from articles in that they make it possible to state or illustrate an empirical point without necessarily giving a full-fledged and theoretically integrated analysis. Furthermore, short communications are also appropriate for comments on articles published earlier in the NJL.

We are also delighted that the present volume of NJL (volume 33, 2010) will be the first volume to consist of three rather than two issues, published in May, October and December. The second issue of every volume will continue to be a guest-edited thematic one, but from now on both the first and the third issues of every volume will be non-thematic issues.

We are furthermore happy to announce that NJL 34.2 (2011) will be a special issue devoted to the Nordic Languages and Linguistic Typology, edited by Pål Kristian Eriksen and Camilla Wide. 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 2009, 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 sociolinguistics, Frans Gregersen and Unn Røyneland). In addition to the members of our Editorial Board, these reviewers include: