Semantics etc.

Today is a big day for semantics, for open access, open science publishing in our field: the first research article in our new journal Semantics and Pragmatics (S&P) has been published!

Barker, Chris & Chung-chieh Shan. 2008. Donkey anaphora is in-scope binding. Semantics and Pragmatics 1(1): 1–42. doi:10.3765/sp.1.1.

We will comment on this occasion further on the editors’ blog. But take a look at the pdf and enjoy the extensive hyper-features: active links from the text to the bibliography, clickable DOIs in the bibliography for most of the cited literature, links from example numbers in the text to the examples, etc. Also, note that the bibliography style follows the guidelines agreed to by a working group of linguistics journal editors. In particular, note that our bibliography style gives full first names (looking at you, Springer!).

Of course, we welcome any comments and feedback. Just send us email at editors@semprag.org or comment here or on the editors’ blog.

And, given that all of us are using the summer to write new papers, please submit your best work to S&P. We’re ready to give you the best publishing experience you have ever had.

Update: See now also David’s post on “Donkeys in Cyberspace” on Language Log, which has a growing comment thread where we learn that the problem of donkey anaphora is not an obvious problem.