Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Natural Language & Linguistic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and generative linguistics. It was established in 1983 and originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Since 2004 the journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media. Since 2024, the editor-in-chief has been Daniel Harbour (QMUL).
The journal carries a "Topic-Comment" column (initiated by Geoffrey K. Pullum), in which a contributor presents a personal, sometimes controversial, opinion on some aspect of the field.
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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 1.1.
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