Mediterranean Language Review
Presentation of the Mediterranean Language Review
Guidelines for Contributors
Past Issues
Contact
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Presentation of the Mediterranean Language Review
The MEDITERRANEAN LANGUAGE REVIEW is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed forum for the investigation of language and culture in the Mediterranean. The editors of this periodical welcome articles, reviews, review articles, and bibliographical surveys in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish relating to the following aspects of Mediterranean languages, past and present:
- linguistic contact and diffusion in the Mediterranean area and its hinterland;
- interaction of language and culture in the region; cases studies of linguistic relativity; culturally determined language behaviour;
- sociolinguistic aspects: dialectology, language policy, koiné and levelling, sociolects, diglossia and bilingualism;
- the historical evolution and present state of languages spoken by small nations and ethnic minorities (e.g. Berber, Albanian in Italy and Greece, Neo-Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Judezmo, the languages of Gypsies, etc.); language problems endemic to small spaker communities in the region; ethnolinguistic research on Bedouin;
- religion and language: confessional affiliation and language use; liturgical languages;
- ethnolinguistic studies on island communities in the Mediterranean (Corsica, Sardinia, Cyprus, Malta, the Greek islands, etc.); linguistic obsolescence;
- linguistic stratification: areal typology and the languages of the Mediterranean littoral; substratal phenomena;
- interlinguas: Kultursprachen of the Mediterranean (Greek, Latin, Italian, Arabic, etc.); the lexical impact of globalization; Mediterranean Lingua Franca; maritime linguistics; lexical convergence; relics of colonial and maritime English, e.g. in Maltese, Egyptian Arabic, Cypriot Greek, etc.; marginal language;
- approaches to Mediterranean lexicology (Worte und Sachen); ethnolinguistic studies of traditional professions; the levelling linguistic impact of globalization.
Guidelines for Contributors
Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be submitted as doc(x)-files, together with a pdf version. Please provide a right and left margin of at least 3,5 cm and a font size of 12p (including quotations, footnotes and references). The text should not be preformatted, it should be aligned left without paragraph indentation, and should be submitted without page numbers. If you use special characters or signs please provide the font.
Text
Articles and review articles should generally not exceed 40 pages (including tables etc.). Since the text will be given to anonymous referees, the name of the author must be concealed. On a separate sheet please submit name of the author with postal and e-mail address.
Footnotes and bibliographical references
Footnotes are placed under the text on each page with progressing numbers. Bibliographical references in the footnotes and in the main body of the text are given only in short (e.g. Behnstedt 1997: 30).
References
The complete references are listed alphabetically at the end of the article. Periodicals should not be abbreviated. Please observe the following rules for the references:
Examples:
Behnstedt, Peter 1997. Sprachatlas von Syrien. (Semitica Viva. 17.) Wiesbaden.
Fischer, Wolfdietrich & Jastrow, Otto 1980. Handbuch der arabischen Dialekte. (Porta Linguarum Orientalium. N.S. 16.) Wiesbaden.
References to articles published in collective works: author, year of publication. title (not italic). In: editor(s), title (italic), place of publication: pages.
Examples:
Webber, Sabra 1995. Children’s Games and Songs from Tunisia. In: E. Warnock Fernea (ed.), Children in the Muslim Middle East. Austin: 448–452.
Davy, Jim; Ioannou, Yiannis & Panayotou, Anna 1996. French and English loans in Cypriot diglossia. In: Chypre hier et aujourd’hui entre Orient et Occident. (Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient méditerranéen. 25.) Lyon: 127–136.
References to articles published in periodicals: author, year of publication. title (not italic). periodical (italic) volume: pages.
Examples:
Demir, Nurettin 2002. “Wollen” im Zyperntürkischen. Mediterranean Language Review 14: 9–20.
Arvaniti, Amalia & Joseph, Brian 2000. Variation in voiced stop prenasalisation in Greek. Glossologia 11–12: 131–166.
Review articles
The reviewed book has to be quoted as follows: title (italic). author. series place of publication: published, year of publication. number of pages. ISBN.
Examples:
Der arabische Dialekt von Nabk (Syrien). Von Sabine Gralla. (Semitica Viva. 37.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2006. XII + 191 S. ISBN 978-3-447-05449-2
Semitic Studies in honour of Edward Ullendorff. Ed. by Geoffrey Khan. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics. 47.) Leiden-Köln: Brill 2005. VI + 367 S. ISBN 90-04-14834-5
Past Issues
- Issue 29 (2022)
- Issue 28 (2021)
- Issue 27 (2020)
- Issue 26 (2019)
- Issue 25 (2018)
- Issue 24 (2017)
- Issue 23 (2016)
- Issue 22 (2015)
- Issue 21 (2014)
- Issue 20 (2013)
- Issue 19 (2012)
- Issue 18 (2011)
- Issue 17 (2006-2010)
- Issue 16 (2005)
- Issue 15 (2003-2004)
- Issue 14 (2002)
- Issue 13 (2001)
- Issue 12 (2000)
- Issue 11 (1999)
- Issue 10 (1998)
- Issue 9 (1995-97)
- Issue 8 (1994)
- Issue 6-7 (1990-1993) Special Band commemorating the 5th centenary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain: 1492-1992
- Issue 4-5 (1989)
- Issue 3 (1987)
- Issue 2 (1986)
- Issue 1 (1983)
Contact
Manuscripts for publication, books for review, and other correspondence should be sent to one of the following addresses:
Prof. Dr. Matthias Kappler
Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa mediterraneo / Department of Asian and Nort African Studies
Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
Ca' Cappello, San Polo 2035
I-30125 Venezia
E-Mail: mkappler@unive.it
Homepage: www.unive.it/persone/mkappler
Prof. Dr. Werner Arnold (semitic world)
Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg
Landfriedstraße 12
69117 Heidelberg
E-Mail: rektor@hfjs.eu
Homepage: www.hfjs.eu/hochschule/dozenten/professoren/arnold.html
Dr. Till Stellino (Romance languages)
Romanisches Seminar
Seminarstrasse 3
D-69117 Heidelberg
Tel: 06221 / 54-2750
E-Mail: stellino@uni-heidelberg.de
Homepage: www.uni-heidelberg.de/rose/personen/stellino.html
Prof. Dr. Christian Voß (South-Eastern-Europe)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Slawistik
Dorotheenstraße 65
10099 Berlin
E-mail:christian.voss@hu-berlin.de
Homepage: https://www.slawistik.hu-berlin.de/de/member/cvoss/standardseite
Website of the publisher: mlr.harrassowitz-library.com/