Natural Language and Linguistic Theory


Natural Language & Linguistic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and generative linguistics. It was established in 1983 and originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Since 2004 the journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Julie Anne Legate.
The journal carries a "Topic-Comment" column, in which a contributor presents a personal, sometimes controversial, opinion on some aspect of the field.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.845.