This is the first issue of volume 36 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.

The editorial team is very pleased to welcome Fredrik Heinat (Stockholm) as the new review editor of the NJL, and we would like to thank Cecilia Falk for her efforts as NJL review editor from 2001 to 2012.

One of the papers in the present issue, ‘Two types of case variation’, by Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson, was originally submitted to and accepted for publication in the NJL special issue (35.3) on Case Variation and Change in the Nordic Languages, edited by Jeffrey K. Parrott. For purely technical reasons, however, the paper could not be included in the special issue and we are happy to be able to publish it as part of the present issue instead.

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 a communication, it is possible to make or illustrate an empirical point without necessarily giving a full-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 37.2 (2014) of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics will be a special issue devoted to Corpus Linguistics and the Nordic Languages, edited by Gisle Andersen and Daniel Hardt. 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 2012, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks for your time and effort (also on the part of the editor of the special issue on Case Variation and Change in the Nordic Languages, Jeffrey K. Parrott). In addition to the members of our Editorial Board, these reviewers include: