This is the first issue of volume 38 of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 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 NJL, http://journals.cambridge.org/NJL, as well as on the NAL web site, http://www.uef.fi/nal.
The last few years have been a transition period in the editorship of the Journal. Sten Vikner and Catherine Ringen, who have served as editors since 2001, are stepping down and a new editorial team is taking over. A few years ago it was agreed that in order to avoid an abrupt change in the editorship, Gunnar Ólafur Hansson, Matti Miestamo and Marit Westergaard would join the editorial team first as associate editors, and accordingly, in 2012–2014, the team had five members. Now the time has come for the new editors to take over completely, and from 2015, the editors of the Journal are Hansson, Miestamo and Marit Julien, who now replaces Westergaard on the editorial team. Fredrik Heinat remains review editor as before. We wish to express our warm thanks to Sten and Cathie for their invaluable service to the Journal and to the Nordic linguistic community over the past decade and a half, as well as for their help and advice during our first years as NJL editors. We would also like to thank Marit Westergaard for the smooth cooperation we have had during the last three years.
We would like to point out to our readers and potential contributors that there are now four ways to contribute to NJL. In addition to the three traditional submission categories of (longer) articles, short communications, and book reviews, we have added a fourth category, review articles. We would very much like to encourage contributions to NJL within all four 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 fully fledged and theoretically integrated analysis. Short communications are also appropriate for comments on earlier publications in the Journal. Review articles are like book reviews in discussing a recent book of major importance or relevance to the NJL readership (or two or more books on the same topic), but the greater length allows for more detailed and substantial evaluation and critique; as articles, they will also undergo peer review. Like book reviews, review articles will typically be invited by the Editors, but unsolicited submissions in this category are also welcome. Information concerning submissions and instructions for contributors can be found at http://journals.cambridge.org/NJL. Note that NJL has a dedicated email address for submissions and general queries: [email protected].
We are furthermore happy to announce that issue 39.2 (2016) of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics will be a special issue devoted to discourse, grammar and intersubjectivity, edited by Marja Etelämäki, Ilona Herlin, Tapani Möttönen and Laura Visapää. 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 2014, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks for your time and effort, also on behalf of the editors of the special issue on Corpus Linguistics and the Nordic Languages, Gisle Andersen and Daniel Hardt. In addition to the members of our Editorial Board, these reviewers include:
Jenny Audring (Leiden University), Hans Basbøll (University of Southern Denmark), Johan Brandtler (Lund University), Kurt Braunmüller (University of Hamburg), Ken Ramshøj Christensen (Aarhus University), Philipp Conzett (University of Tromsø), Lars-Olof Delsing (Lund University), Martin Ehala (University of Tartu), Jürg Fleischer (University of Marburg), Hans Götzsche (Aalborg University), David Håkansson (Uppsala University), Marit Julien (Lund University), Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California), Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis (University of Gothenburg), Line Burholt Kristensen (University of Copenhagen), Dave Kush (Yale University), Therese Leinonen (Univesity of Turku), Magnus Levin (Linnæus University), Filippa Lindahl (University of Gothenburg), Hans Lindquist (Malmö University), Conxita Lleó (University of Hamburg), Terje Lohndal (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Leila Mattfolk (Institute for the Languages of Finland), Anne Mette Nyvad (Aarhus University), Bjarne Ørsnes (Copenhagen Business School), Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, College Park), Christer Platzack (Lund University), Eric Reuland (Utrecht University), Doug Saddy (University of Reading), Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Hans-Jörg Schmid (University of Munich), Anja Schüppert (University of Groningen), Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson (Lund University), Jon Sprouse (University of Connecticut), Sverre Stausland Johnsen (University of Oslo), Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø), Anna Lena Wiklund (Lund University), Martina Wiltschko (University of British Columbia), Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut).
