UPDATE (September 5th, 2025): We are changing publishers! Starting January 1st, 2026, the publisher for Language will be Cambridge University Press. This partnership reflects our commitment to providing the highest standards of scholarly publishing, visibility, and accessibility for our authors' work. Cambridge brings a long-standing solid reputation for academic excellence, global reach, and strong author support. In preparation for this transition, we are now accepting all new submissions over at the Language website on Cambridge's submission portal, ScholarOne. Note that the website itself is still under construction, but it is accepting submissions.

Language, the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America, publishes peer-reviewed research dealing with issues in linguistic theory and a wide range of subfields in linguistics and related disciplines, as well as book reviews and notes and commentary of interest to the linguistics community. Language is published both in a print edition and on online platforms containing the print-edition content as well as online-only content in various special sections, including the thematic sections below:

Teaching Linguistics is an online section of Language featuring high-quality scholarship that analyzes a pedagogical issue, or introduces an innovative teaching methodology in linguistics. More ...

Language and Public Policy, another online section of Language, features scholarship exploring and analyzing areas of public policy that benefit from the findings and methods of linguistics. More ...

Language Revitalization and Documentation is another online section of the journal. It features research focusing on language documentation and revitalization, including reports on documentary corpora. More ...

Access to Language – To access published volumes of Language, please visit our partners for online publication: Project MUSE and JSTOR. More information about individual subscriptions is available at this link.