This is the first issue of volume 32 of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics. The NJL is the journal of the Nordic Association of Linguists. Individuals may subscribe to the Nordic Journal of Linguistics by joining the Nordic Association of Linguists. The NAL membership form can be found on the Cambridge University Press website of the NJL, <http://journals.cambridge.org/NJL>, as well as on the NAL website, <http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics/nal>.
We would like to thank the following members of the NJL Editorial Board who are stepping down this year for their services to the journal: Kirsti Koch Christensen (Bergen), Robin Cooper (Göteborg), Auli Hakulinen (Helsinki), Inger Rosengren (Lund) and Peter Trudgill (Norwich). We would furthermore like to welcome the new members of the NJL Editorial Board: Ute Bohnacker (Uppsala), Kersti Börjars (Manchester), Kristin Melum Eide (Trondheim), Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (Vancouver), Eva Skafte Jensen (Roskilde), Satu Manninen (Lund), Maria Vilkuna (Helsinki) and Marit Westergaard (Tromsø).
We are very pleased to report that after talks with our publishers, Cambridge University Press, we expect the Nordic Journal of Linguistics to go from two to tree issues a year next year, 2010.
We are furthermore happy to announce that the issue 33.2 (2010) of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics will be a special issue devoted to the Nordic Languages and Second Language Acquisition Theory, edited by Ute Bohnacker and Marit Westergaard. For full details, see the call for papers immediately after this note.
We would like to remind our readers and potential contributors that there are three ways to contribute to the Nordic Journal of Linguistics: (longer) articles, (shorter) debate contributions, and book reviews.
Last, but not least: To all the reviewers who have reviewed papers for the Nordic Journal of Linguistics in the year 2008, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks for your time and effort (also on the part of the editors of the special issue on the syntax of nominals and noun phrases, Lars-Olof Delsing and Kersti Börjars). In addition to the members of our (old) Editorial Board, these reviewers include:
Paolo Acquaviva (Dublin), Ash Asudeh (Ottawa), Dorothee Beermann (Trondheim), Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge), Eva Engels (Oslo), Hans-Olav Enger (Stavanger), Cecilia Falk (Stockholm), Eric Fuß (Frankfurt), Charlotte Gooskens (Groningen), Martine Grice (Köln), Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (Vancouver), Lars Johnsen (Bergen), Marit Julien (Lund), Olaf Koeneman (Amsterdam), Gjert Kristoffersen (Bergen), Aditi Lahiri (Oxford), Arne Lindstad (Oslo), Marie Maegaard (Copenhagen), Satu Manninen (Lund), Bruce Morén (Tromsø), Bjarne Ørsnes (Copenhagen), Jörg Peters (Oldenburg), Cecilia Poletto (Padova), Torben Thrane (Århus), Ole Togeby (Århus) and Øystein Vangsnes (Tromsø).
