{"id":18059,"date":"2026-06-08T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18059"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:57:43","slug":"new-journal-announcement-semantics-of-natural-languages-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/06\/08\/new-journal-announcement-semantics-of-natural-languages-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"New journal announcement: Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new journal in semantics is here: <strong>Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL)<\/strong>, a diamond open-access journal dedicated to the study of meaning in natural languages and the scholar-owned, scholar-led successor to <em>Natural Language Semantics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There are several MIT connections to the launch:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Irene Heim, founding co-editor of <em>Natural Language Semantics<\/em>, is one of the signers of the open letter<\/li>\n<li>Danny Fox and Kai von Fintel are on the editorial board<\/li>\n<li>Three of the first five accepted articles are MIT-connected:\n<ul>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/yurikaaonuki.github.io\">Yurika Aonuki<\/a><\/strong> (4th year): Scale-sensitivity of comparatives and measure phrase interpretations in Gitksan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keny Chatain<\/strong> (PhD 2021) &amp; <strong>Philippe Schlenker<\/strong> (PhD 1999): \u00adLocal Pragmatics Redux: Presupposition Accommodation Without Covert Operators<\/li>\n<li>Jingyi Chen &amp; <strong>Valentine Hacquard<\/strong> (PhD 2006): Being pragmatic about anankastic conditionals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Learn more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/snl-journal.org\/\">https:\/\/snl-journal.org\/<\/a><br clear='none'\/>\nBrowse accepted articles: <a href=\"https:\/\/snl-journal.org\/news\/944\/\">https:\/\/snl-journal.org\/news\/944\/<\/a><br clear='none'\/>\nRead the open letter: <a href=\"https:\/\/snl-journal.org\/news\/942\/\">https:\/\/snl-journal.org\/news\/942\/<\/a><br clear='none'\/>\nSubmissions: <a href=\"https:\/\/snl-journal.org\/submissions\/\">https:\/\/snl-journal.org\/submissions\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new journal in semantics is here: Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL), a diamond open-access journal dedicated to the study of meaning in natural languages and the scholar-owned, scholar-led successor to Natural Language Semantics. There are several MIT connections to the launch: Irene Heim, founding co-editor of Natural Language Semantics, is one of the signers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-faculty-news","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18059"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18094,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18059\/revisions\/18094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}