Linguistics (journal)

*Linguistics*
Discipline	Linguistics
Language	English
Edited by	Johan van der Auwera
Publication details
History	1963–present
Publisher	Mouton de Gruyter
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	0.763 (2015) and 0.872 (5-year)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Linguistics
Indexing;
ISSN	0024-3949 (print); 1613-396X (web);
Links
	Journal homepage;

Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences is a peer-reviewed academic journal of general linguistics published by De Gruyter Mouton. The journal publishes both articles and book reviews. It publishes two special issues a year. The current Editor-in-Chief is Volker Gast. Since 2010, it publishes 1400 pages per year.

History

Linguistics was started in 1963 by Mouton Publishers in The Hague, apparently on the initiative of Mouton's Peter de Ridder as well as linguist C.H. van Schooneveld.^[1] In 1979, after Mouton had been bought by Walter de Gruyter, a new editorial board was established, consisting of Brian Butterworth, Bernard Comrie, Östen Dahl, Norbert Dittmar, Flip Droste, Jaap van Marle, and Jürgen Weissenborn. De facto, Brian Butterworth was editor-in-chief between 1979 and 1982. From 1982 through 2005, the editor was Wolfgang Klein, who was succeeded by Johan van der Auwera (2005-2019), and then Volker Gast.