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Use when targeting Language (the Linguistic Society of America journal) or deciding whether a linguistics manuscript fits this discipline-wide flagship. Encodes the journal's fit across all subfields, the claim-plus-data bar, theoretical and cross-linguistic expectations, house style, glossing and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# Language (language)

## Journal positioning

Language is the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America and the
discipline-wide generalist venue for all of linguistics — phonetics and phonology,
morphology and syntax, semantics and pragmatics, sociolinguistics, historical and
typological linguistics, language acquisition, and psycholinguistics. Its defining
expectation is a **clearly stated claim supported by rigorous language data and/or
formal argument** that speaks beyond a single sub-community: a result a linguist in
another subfield will recognize as consequential. A solid descriptive note or a
framework-internal exercise with no broader stake is a poor fit, however careful.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** aid. It does not replace the
journal's current submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Language
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