About the Journal

Focus and scope

In its beginnings, the journal placed special emphasis on etymological studies, and subsequently broadened its thematic horizon to include works from various linguistic disciplines such as Sociolinguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, Psycholinguistics (especially the processes of comprehension and production of texts), Hispanic Philology, Grammar, Discourse Analysis (particularly academic-scientific), Applied Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, among others.

History of the journal

The journal Anales de Lingüística was founded in 1940 by the Catalan philologist Joan Corominas, founder of the Instituto de Lingüística of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and author of the famous Diccionario Crítico Etimológico de la Lengua Castellana, among other great dictionaries and additional works. Apart from being an organ for the dissemination of the activities of the Instituto de Lingüística, the journal had an international scope since its origin, since linguists of the stature of Corominas himself, Leo Spitzer, Robert Salmon, Antonio Tovar, Theodor Elwert and Salvador Canals Frau published in it. Although in its beginnings the journal placed special emphasis on etymological studies, it gradually broadened its thematic horizon to include works from various linguistic disciplines, such as Sociolinguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, Psycholinguistics (in particular, on the processes of comprehension and production of language production) and Linguistics, The research articles presented in the journal have been published in the fields of Sociolinguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, Psycholinguistics (especially on the processes of comprehension and production of texts), Hispanic Philology, Grammar (especially descriptive and cognitive-functional), Discourse Analysis (especially academic-scientific), Applied Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, among others. The research articles presented