Aims and scope
The Journal of East Asian Linguistics/JEAL is a forum for the description and formal analysis of East Asian (including Southeast Asian) languages. JEAL welcomes submissions of the following nature with a primary empirical focus on data patterns found in languages in this general area.
- Theoretically-oriented work on any aspect of the syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, and morphology of East Asian languages.
- Comparative work between an East Asian language and other, non-East Asian languages that contributes to the theory of universal grammar.
- Formal analyses of diachronic data patterns from East Asian languages.
- Experimental studies on East Asian languages that have direct consequences for the development of formal, generative linguistic theory.
- Remark or reply-type articles which motivate alternative analyses of phenomena previously described and analyzed for these languages.
- Shorter squibs with original observations that raise questions of analysis and explanation with significant theoretical implications.