From The Editor

Abstract

The current issue of JSL offers our usual representative spread of languages and topics, with papers on Croatian collective numerals, Polish gender classes, Bulgarian motion verbs, and a humorous foray into Polish-English bilingualism. What is perhaps unusual is the lack of papers about the Slavist’s traditional mainstay, Russian. Also somewhat unusual is the largely descriptive nature of these papers and their primary focus on matters of language use. Whether this represents trends in the field or accidents of publishing I cannot say, but I do know that each article in these pages makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of how Slavic languages work. This issue also includes three book reviews—again of very different kinds of books. Finally, we have provided at the end what we hope will be a useful resource: a newly compiled set of guidelines for authors. An updated version of these, first printed in JSL 2(2), has never been made available. Not only have the logistics of publishing changed much since 1994, but so has our appreciation of how submissions should best be formatted to streamline the review and production process. In my last “From the Editor” column I invited suggestions for a silver anniversary volume to appear in 2017. I am happy now to report that there will be a special double-issue with state-of-the-art papers on a survey of subdisciplines of Slavic linguistics, written by leading scholars in those areas. The volume will be guest-edited by Stephen Dickey, Laura Janda, Keith Langston, and Catherine Rudin. Their aim is to have the anniversary issue ready by the annual SLS meeting. Which brings me to the next topic… annual meetings! The 2017 meeting, which will mark the 25th year of JSL and the 12th annual meeting of SLS, is scheduled to take place in Ljubljana. Working backwards from that point, SLS XI will be in Toronto in 2016 and, this year, SLS X is in Heidelberg (where this issue of JSL will be available). It is truly exciting to see how robust and international the organization has become, as SLS and JSL evolve in tandem.