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This guide provides methodological standards for defending the empirical design of a language manuscript. It covers various subfields—including fieldwork, corpus construction, phonetics, and typological comparison—ensuring that the evidence base is transparent, rigorous, and directly supports the stated theoretical claims. Use this when justifying data collection methods or addressing reviewer concerns about evidence validity.

A comprehensive preflight checklist designed for authors submitting academic manuscripts to major publishing portals (e.g., Cambridge University Press ScholarOne). It ensures adherence to strict academic standards, including double-anonymous anonymization, verifying sectional word limits, checking specific style guides (like Language Style Sheet), and validating specialized linguistic elements such as Leipzig glossing and IPA before the final submission.

This guide details the strict conventions for preparing exhibits in linguistics manuscripts, such as numbered examples, Leipzig-style interlinear glosses, IPA transcriptions, and quantitative data tables. It ensures that academic papers maintain high standards of clarity and rigor for publication, covering everything from morpheme alignment to effective figure alt text.

This guide teaches how to elevate descriptive linguistic data (such as glossed patterns or corpus trends) into robust, theoretically grounded claims. It outlines the necessary structure for presenting an argument with explicit assumptions, testable predictions, and critical engagement with competing theoretical frameworks, moving beyond mere description to achieve genuine theoretical depth.

A comprehensive guide for linguists on determining if their research project has sufficient theoretical scope and general significance for submission to a generalist, high-impact journal. It helps researchers transition from descriptive findings to theoretically grounded, cross-subfield claims, improving their structuring and argumentation before submission.

This skill polishes the prose and ensures the house style of a linguistics manuscript, making it legible to a general audience across diverse subfields and frameworks. It focuses on structuring the argument for clarity, defining jargon, leading with the main claim, and conforming citations to the specific Language Style Sheet, rather than building the core theoretical argument itself.

This skill guides authors on whether their linguistics research is broad enough for Language (LSA's flagship journal). It checks for a clearly stated, generalizable claim backed by rigorous, cross-linguistic data, and adherence to high academic standards, ensuring the work transcends a single subfield.

This skill provides expert guidance on positioning theoretical work for Linguistic Inquiry, a premier venue in generative grammar. It helps authors structure rigorous formal analyses of syntax and its interfaces (morphology, semantics, phonology). Use this when developing explicit, falsifiable theoretical proposals, crafting focused 'squibs,' or navigating the high standards required for top-tier academic linguistics publications.

This skill refines complex philosophical prose, ensuring rigorous arguments are highly accessible and easy to follow for a broad academic readership. It focuses on maximizing clarity, achieving linguistic economy, and ensuring all technical concepts are accompanied by plain-language exposition. Ideal for final drafting passes, improving readability, and adhering to strict word limits.

A comprehensive guide for revising technical submissions, particularly in computational linguistics and NLP. It details how to enforce linguistic scope discipline, present examples as verifiable arguments, structure the first page for maximum impact, anticipate reviewer limitations, and maintain strict terminology consistency for high-stakes academic publishing.

This skill serves as a detailed guide for authors submitting theoretical articles in syntax or morphology to Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (NLLT). It outlines the journal's specific expectations, emphasizing that formal analyses must be deeply grounded and rigorously tested using rich, representative, and often cross-linguistic empirical data. Use this tool to assess the methodological rigor, scope fit, and structural requirements of your manuscript against NLLT's high academic standards.

A comprehensive guide for authors targeting the NAACL conference. It helps strategize the fit, framing, and rigor required for NLP and Computational Linguistics manuscripts. Use this to structure your paper, understand the evidence bar, and position your work for a top-tier conference audience.