Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and generative linguistics. It was established in 1983 and originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Since 2004 the journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania).

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

Discipline	Theoretical linguistics
Language	English
Edited by	Julie Anne Legate
Publication details
History	1983-present
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	0.845 (2015)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Nat. Lang. Linguist. Theory
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0167-806X (print) 1573-0859 (web)
JSTOR	0167806X
OCLC no.	863227917
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

The journal carries a "Topic-Comment" column (initiated by Geoffrey K. Pullum), in which a contributor presents a personal, sometimes controversial, opinion on some aspect of the field.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Academic OneFile
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index^[1]
• Bibliographie linguistique/Linguistic bibliography
• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences^[1]
• Current Contents/Arts and Humanities^[1]
• EBSCO databases
• FRANCIS
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
• MLA International Bibliography
• PASCAL
• ProQuest databases
• Scopus^[2]
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[1]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.845.^[3]