Hello everyone,
We are happy to announce again that we are now accepting submissions for our annual departmental journal, USC Working Papers in Linguistics! For this year's volume, we will be accepting paper submissions until the deadline, May 15th, 2023.
For this year’s volume, we are looking for submissions from both students and faculty that are completed projects which are close to being ready to send to journals. This includes things like screening project papers, manuscripts, and conference presentations for conferences without proceedings. If you have a question about whether something should be submitted, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us!
Please note that the publications in this journal are considered a work-in-progress, and publication in this journal does not preclude publication of the same work in a different journal. The idea behind these submissions is to provide opportunities for students and faculty to get smaller publications on their way to more outward-facing journal publications. This allows those who submit to receive more feedback from other members of the department, and also acquire more publications for their CVs/websites/etc. It also allows other linguistics departments see what sort of work we are producing at USC.
You can find the call for papers with more information on submission requirements on below. Submissions should be sent to uscwpinling@gmail.com. You can also find the style sheet linked below. We are accepting both LaTeX and word submission this year.
We look forward to your submissions! Please feel free to email us with any questions you might have!
Thank you,
Darby & Mete
(USC Working Papers Organizational Committee)
Additional Information for Submissions:
Submissions do not have an official page limit, but we prefer for each paper to be no longer than 30 pages if possible (exceptions are possible though).
All submissions should follow the style requirements. There is a LaTeX style sheet to help with this, as well as a Word document version. You can find the download links for the style sheets below.
After you submit your paper, you will receive feedback on your submission from at least two other members of the USC Department of Linguistics by early July. You may then be asked to make some edits to your paper before Volume 6 is officially published (due by mid-August).
All submissions should be sent to uscwpinling@gmail.com.
If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Darby (grachek@usc.edu) and/or Mete (moguz@usc.edu)!
Download the style sheet