Eastern Linguistics. Issue 1. Volume 1

Author: Shanghai College Comparative Linguistics E-Institute
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Journal of East Asian Linguistics primarily focuses on East Asian languages as its research subjects. Its purpose is to study languages using the general principles of linguistics and to enrich these principles by discovering patterns from the unique phenomena in these languages. Linguistics is an empirical science, grounded in the empirical world. It identifies universal phenomena from vast linguistic materials, summarizes rules, proposes hypotheses, forms theories, and provides deeper explanations. As an immature empirical science, linguistics requires more exploration and innovation. From this perspective, this journal is more inclined to propose and solve problems, welcoming new materials, new perspectives, and new interpretations. Journal of East Asian Linguistics provides a testing ground for researchers studying East Asian languages. It is not closed off but rather open to the world. The study of East Asian languages should, like other languages and researchers, focus on and engage in the research of linguistic universal principles. With its unique resources, such as a long continuous historical record, diverse language families, and complex relationships between language dialects, it can make its own distinctive contributions to developing more general and universal theories of general linguistics.