A new journal in semantics is here: Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL), a diamond open-access journal dedicated to the study of meaning in natural languages and the scholar-owned, scholar-led successor to Natural Language Semantics.
There are several MIT connections to the launch:
- Irene Heim, founding co-editor of Natural Language Semantics, is one of the signers of the open letter
- Danny Fox and Kai von Fintel are on the editorial board
- Three of the first five accepted articles are MIT-connected:
- Yurika Aonuki (4th year): Scale-sensitivity of comparatives and measure phrase interpretations in Gitksan
- Keny Chatain (PhD 2021) & Philippe Schlenker (PhD 1999): Local Pragmatics Redux: Presupposition Accommodation Without Covert Operators
- Jingyi Chen & Valentine Hacquard (PhD 2006): Being pragmatic about anankastic conditionals
Learn more here: https://snl-journal.org/
Browse accepted articles: https://snl-journal.org/news/944/
Read the open letter: https://snl-journal.org/news/942/
Submissions: https://snl-journal.org/submissions/