Journal of East Asian Linguistics

期刊简介：The study of East Asian languages, especially of Chinese, Japanese and Korean, has existed for a long time as a field, as demonstrated by the existence of programs in most institutions of higher learning and research that include these languages as a major component. Speakers of these three languages have shared a great deal of linguistic heritage during the development of their languages through cultural contacts, in addition to possible genealogical linkage. These languages accordingly possess various common features. Another important factor that ties them together as a field is that they have shared a common tradition of linguistic scholarship, a tradition that distinguishes itself from the study of western languages. Against this tradition, much recent work has approached these languages from a broader perspective beyond the area, considering them within contexts of general theoretical research, bringing new lights to old problems in the area and contributing to current issues in linguistic theory. But there continues to be good reason for scholars working in this approach to hold a special interest in each other's work. Especially with the amount of most recent theoretical work on these languages, the field of theoretical East Asian linguistics has been fast growing. The purpose of the Journal of East Asian Linguistics is to provide a common forum for such scholarly activities, and to foster further growth that will allow the field to benefit more from linguistic theory of today, and enable the languages to play a more important role in shaping linguistic theory of tomorrow.

【译文】东亚语言的研究，尤其是中文、日语和韩语的研究，作为一个领域已经存在很长时间，这从大多数高等教育和研究机构中存在这些语言的课程中可以看出。这三个语言的说话者在他们语言的发展过程中，通过文化交流共享了大量的语言遗产，除了可能的血缘联系。因此，这些语言具有各种共同特征。将它们作为一个领域联系起来的另一个重要因素是，它们有一个共同的学术传统，这个传统与西方语言的研究不同。在这个传统下，最近的工作从更广泛的视角来研究这些语言，将它们置于一般理论研究的背景下考虑，为该领域的老问题带来了新的光明，并为当前的语言理论问题做出了贡献。但学者们继续有很好的理由对这个方法的研究工作特别感兴趣。特别是随着最近这些语言的理论工作的增加，理论东亚语言学领域正在迅速发展。东亚语言学杂志的目的是为这样的学术活动提供一个共同的论坛，并促进该领域的进一步增长，使该领域能够更多地从今天的语言理论中受益，并使这些语言在塑造明天的语言理论中发挥更重要的作用。