ISSN 1132-0214
ISSN on-line version 2079-312x

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS (2024)

Editorial policy. Lingüística aims to disseminate research on topics related to Spanish, Portuguese and Native American languages, their associated literatures and cultures. It hosts unpublished articles, in the different areas of the disciplines involved; it also publishes notes, reviews of recent works and discussions among those interested in commenting on a text published in the magazine. Contributions must be written in Spanish or Portuguese, official languages of ALFAL. Lingüística works under the modality of continuous publication; articles published during a calendar year are collected in one volume that appears in December of that year.

Access to the magazine is free. It can be consulted both at www.mundoalfal.org/ and at www.facebook.com/people/Revista-Lingüística/100063471395141/ and on other sites. The owner of the rights is the Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina, ALFAL, a non-profit corporation. Published texts may be reproduced in whole or in part, provided that their origin and authorship are adequately cited. As of issue 30 (2), December 2014, the journal is protected by the CC-by license on the SciELO network.

Evaluation and publication process. The collaborations are, first of all, considered in terms of strict compliance with the required formal requirements (“Writing Rules”, see infra). If the work is not adequate to these requirements, the author may be asked, for a single time, a correction of this aspect. Once the correction has been made and if there are still formal inadequacies, the work may not be sent for evaluation.

The evaluation itself is carried out by the Editorial Committee and by external evaluators who may or may not belong to the Scientific Commission of the journal. The reception, acceptance or rejection of the work will be communicated in a timely manner. The editorial process includes the use of the Viper anti plagiarism program.

The author will receive, in the shortest possible time, the result of the evaluations of his work. If the general opinion recommends publication with modifications (minimum or numerous), the Author may or may not accept the opinion. If s/he does not accept it, his work will be withdrawn from the journal's consideration. If s/he accepts it and agrees to modify, s/he will receive a new date to deliver the final version of her/his work. During this period, the Author may ask three clearly formulated questions about the opinion received, which will be answered briefly and clearly as soon as possible.

Submission of collaborations. The originals must be sent to: elizaincin.alfal@gmail.com, with a copy to rscavarelli@gmail.com in Word for Windows format. THE MESSAGE WILL INDICATE THE TITLE OF THE WORK, THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR OR AUTHORS, INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION, TELEPHONE NUMBER, EMAIL AND ORCID NUMBER OF THE AUTHOR OR AUTHORS.

Each author (individual or collective) of an article sent to the journal must express, in a separate email sent after the previous one, his/her agreement with the “Standards of ethical behavior” of the journal. In other email, s/he must declare that s/he knows and has strictly applied the “Instrucciones para los autores”. (cf. below, other requirements for submitting a work to be published)

Both the rules of ethical behavior and the instructions for authors are available at www.mundoalfal.org/ in Spanish and Portuguese.

By the very fact of submitting an article for evaluation, the authors accept that it (if approved for publication) be reproduced in the databases in which the journal is included.

The authors of the article sent for evaluation, will include, at the end of the text, after the “Bibliographic references” a “NOTE” in which it is expressed which parts of the article in question have been prepared by which author. This clarification may be expressed both qualitatively (for example, “The introduction and analysis of the data has been carried out by XXX and the discussion of the data and the conclusions by XXX”) and quantitatively (for example, “the 80 percent of this text has been written by XXX and the rest by XXX.”).

Likewise, the authors of the type of text “research article” (see below the different sections in which an approved text can be published) will include, in their article, a section called “Data availability” located after the “NOTE” referred to above indicating whether the analyzed data set is available (for example, “The data set that supports the results of this study are available at...”) and, if so, where it can be accessed For justified reasons, in the same section referred to above, s/he can declare the opposite, that is, that the data in question is not available.

Articles will be received at any time of the year at the above address. (See “Sending of collaborations”, supra)

In general terms, and when its application is pertinent, compliance by the authors with the 14 roles that they must fulfill (“Contributor Roles”) formalized by the CRedIT Taxonomy and which must be consulted at https://credit. niso.org/ is required.

Compliance with the 14 roles that must be verified in the submitted article is subject to its compatibility with research in the area of humanities and social sciences

SUMMARY OF THE EVALUATION PROCESS (pay special attention!)

EVERY ARTICLE RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS OF THE JOURNAL IS IMMEDIATELY SUBMITTED TO A RAPID REVIEW FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE FORMAL ISSUES (“STYLE”) THAT CHARACTERIZES THE MAGAZINE. IF AN INCONSISTENCY IS FOUND WITH WHAT IS EXPRESSED IN THE “INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AUTHORS”, IT WILL BE RETURNED TO THE AUTHOR, POINTING IT IN A SPECIAL WAY. THIS RETURN DOES NOT MEAN THAT THIS IS THE ONLY INCONSISTENCY, THERE MAY BE OTHERS. THE AUTHOR MUST THEN, WITHIN A VERY SHORT PERIOD, REVIEW THIS ASPECT OF HIS WORK AND RE-SUBMIT IT WITHOUT ANY DIFFERENCE WITH WHAT IS STATED IN THE “INSTRUCTIONS”.

BEFORE SUBMISSION, IN ADDITION, COMPLIANCE WITH THE AUTHOR ROLES (“Contributor Roles”) ESTABLISHED BY CRedIT MUST BE VERIFIED, APPLYING COMMON SENSE. (https://credit.niso.org/).

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JOURNAL DOES NOT USE ANY STANDARDIZED SYSTEM FOR THE QUOTES AND REFERENCES, BUT ONE OF ITS OWN.

ON THE OTHER HAND, THE AUTHOR MUST HAVE ALREADY SENT HIS CONSENT WITH THESE RULES AND HIS ADHESION TO THEM, CLARIFYING THAT S/HE HAS FULLY COMPLIED WITH THEM.

ONLY AT THIS MOMENT WILL THE ARTICLE BE SENT FOR EVALUATION, PRIOR TO VERIFICATION OF POSSIBLE PLAGIARISM, IN CASE OF SUSPICION OR WARNING IN THIS REGARD BY THE EDITORS. IF PLAGIARISM IS VERIFIED, THE ARTICLE WILL BE WITHDRAWN FROM ITS CONSIDERATION AND THE AUTHOR WILL BE INFORMED OF SUCH CIRCUMSTANCE. AFTER RECEIVING THE ARTICLE CONTENT EVALUATION OPINIONS, THEY WILL BE STUDIED AND, IF THEY ARE NOT ENTIRELY CONVINCING, A NEW EVALUATION MAY BE REQUESTED. THE MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE OF THE MAGAZINE NORMALLY ACT AS ONE OF THE EVALUATORS OF EACH ARTICLE.

Journal Sections

The texts received by the Editor must fit in the following Sections that the magazine has:

A) Scientific research articles. Texts of up to 20 pp, in the format indicated below (see “Writing rules”). Unpublished work, not sent to another newspaper simultaneously.

A “scientific research article” is understood as a text that reports the result of an investigation on any subject (treated or not in the previous literature) that involves reaching certain generalizations or regularities in the behavior of the object studied, a result achieved through the collection or organization of a series of data (quali- or quantitative) collected by the author. The work will include a brief review of the antecedents of the study of this object in the specialized literature, as well as a brief discussion of this tradition. These data must be deposited in a specific repository (see “Submission of collaborations”, supra).

The work will strictly attend to the indications on its form, especially in relation to the reference and citation of the bibliography used (See below the pertinent indications on this and other formal aspects);

B) Notes. Texts up to 12 pp. in which the Author freely discusses any aspect or topic that, preferably, is in the current discussion of the critical mass of the discipline, but not limited to them. It will have an essay aspect, which, among other things, means that it is not necessary to collect and manage data (quanti- or qualitative) in the way that “scientific research articles” should be done;

C) Reviews of recently published books no more than three or four years old (they can be recent editions of old books). The required review model can be seen in any of those published in the magazine to date;

D) Obituaries. Texts requested by the Editor to a specific person; and

E) Discussion. Any member may send the Editor a text of no more than 3,000 words, in which s/he may discuss any text published in the magazine, whatever the year. Once the contribution has been received, the Editor will inform the Author of the commented text - if possible - of the same, and she/he will be able to respond to what was expressed by the previous author. The exchange of opinions will have a limit of four interventions per author. For these interventions, subsequent to the original, the Editor will consult with the Author of the response the appropriate number of pages.

WRITING RULES

Format. A4 size sheet, with 2.5 cm margins, Verdana font size 12, single spaced and justified.

Extension. For articles, it will be a maximum of 20 pages, including bibliographical references, illustrations and annexes. The notes will have a maximum of 10 pages, and the reviews, a maximum of 6. In the “Discussion” Section, the initial intervention may not exceed 3000 words.

Originals of the works. They must abide by the following rules:

Qualification. They will have a title -centered and in capital letters-, in 1) the language in which the article is written, 2) in the other official language of ALFAL (if written in Portuguese, the other will be Spanish, and vice versa) and 3) in English. In the next line, on the right margin, in additions and deletions, the name of the author(s), institution and electronic address(es). In case of multiple institutional affiliation, ONLY one institution will be entered, the main one. The institution should be named with its full name, avoiding acronyms. Finally, after the name, the institution and the electronic address, the ORCID number of the author will be noted. In the case of multiple authorship, the journal will consider the first name as the corresponding author by default. If this is not the case, it must be announced who will fulfill that role.

Summary. In 1) the language of the article, 2) the other official language of ALFAL and 3) in English, no more than 150 words, indicating purpose, methodology, results and conclusions. After each one, write down 3 to 5 keywords also in the three languages.

Sections. The text must be divided into sections, identified in whole Arabic numerals.

The subsections (if any) will be numbered in decimalized form (1.1., 1.2., 1.3.; 1.1.1., 1.1.2., etc.).

Use of italics. Technical terms and words or phrases in a language other than the one used in the body of the work will be written in italics.

Illustrations. There will be three types of illustrations: a) charts (qualitative or quantitative information arranged in rows and columns); b) graphics (information processed and presented abstractly through lines, curves, circles or other means); and c) figures (photos, drawings, etc.). They must be correlatively numbered and with their respective legend UNDER the illustration in question. The legend, in turn, will be preceded by “Table/graph/figure X”.

Footnotes. The possible notes to the text will be located, correlatively, at the foot of the page in Verdana font size 10 and will be indicated in the text by means of a superscript, without parentheses and, if applicable, always before the punctuation marks.

Quotes. The textual quotations of less than three lines will be integrated into the paragraph, highlighting them with double quotation marks. Longer citations will be indented. After the citation, the source should be noted, between parentheses: author's last name, followed by comma (,) year of publication, and page(s). (Comrie, 1981: 86), (Lahuerta y Puyol, 1996: 122).

Examples. They will be written in Verdana size 9, headed by Arabic numerals, without parentheses. They will be cited in the text, enclosing the number in parentheses.

References. References to authors in the text will be indicated as follows:

(i) If it is part of the text, the author's last name will be noted and, between parentheses, the year of publication of the work: Coseriu (1988), Ávila (2006: 95).

(ii) If the indicated data is not part of the text, it is included in parentheses: (Samper, 1999), (Menéndez Pidal, 1960: LI), (Bello y Cuervo, 1847).

(iii) If the work has more than two authors, write down the last name of the first followed by “et al.”: (Gougenheim et al. 1956). In the Bibliographical References, the names and surnames of all the authors should be noted.

(iv) In the case of more than one author (or Editor, or Coordinator of collective volumes, if the volume in question is an independent entry in the “References”) only the first of them will enter the last name first and second the name; the second and subsequent ones will enter in the reverse order. Example: “Paredes García, Florentino y María Sancho Pascual. 2018. Influencia de las expectativas de permanencia o retorno en la integración sociolingüística de la población migrante en la comunidad de Madrid, RILI, XVI, 1 (= 31): 41-68”.

(v) The conjunction “y” or “e” will be used to coordinate author names, depending on the language in which the article is written (Spanish or Portuguese, respectively), regardless of the language in which the cited text is written. For example, if the article that illustrates (iv) were cited by an author who writes in Portuguese, they will refer to the work, in the text, as Paredes García e Sancho Pascual. If the text is written in Spanish, it will be referred to as Paredes García y Sancho Pascual.

(vi) The same criteria will be followed in the use of the preposition EN to indicate the book or collective work in which the quoted text is found, that is, if the text sent to the magazine is written in Spanish, use “en” and, if it were in Portuguese, “em”, regardless of the language in which the quoted text is.

(vii) If there is more than one work by the same author, alphabetical sequence will be added: Lucchesi 2001a, 2001b.

(viii) If an author appears more than once in the final bibliographic list (“Bibliographic References”), the author's name will be repeated as many times as there are entries in his work, avoiding the use of the line ( ______________ ) with the meaning of “the same author of the previous line”.

(ix) All -and only- the works cited in the text must be included in the Bibliographic References.

Bibliographic references. They go to the end of work. Authors should be listed with their full names. The titles of books, magazines, proceedings, annals, degree thesis, are written in italics and only with an initial capital letter. The titles of articles in magazines, proceedings, or chapters in books, are written in normal characters and only with an initial capital letter. Page numbers will be noted only in journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. In the case of unpublished papers, the place and date of the respective event will be indicated.

Special attention should be paid to the fact that, when referring to a book (of whatever type) THEY CANNOT BE MISSING, Author, (or publishers), book title, year of publication, city of publication and publisher. In the event that the edition number (2nd, 3rd, etc.) is a relevant fact, since the book has undergone important modifications since that edition, it must also be recorded. In the case of periodical publications, the author (or authors) , year of publication of the journal, title of the article, name of the journal, volume and number, and number of pages among which the article is located MUST NOT BE MISSING.

Some examples below:

Books

Neves, Maria Helena de M. 2000. Gramática de usos do português, São Paulo, Editora de UNESP.

López Morales, Humberto. 2004. Sociolingüística, 3ª ed., Madrid, Gredos.

Benveniste, Émil. 1977. Problemas de lingüística general, Tomo II, México, Siglo XXI.

Magazine Articles

Ferguson, Charles. 1959. Diglosia, Word, 15: 325-340.

Bosque, Ignacio y Juan Carlos Moreno. 1984. Las construcciones con lo y la denotación del neutro, Lingüística, 2: 5-50.

Book chapters or compiled editions

Val Álvaro, José Francisco. 1999. La composición, en Ignacio Bosque y Violeta Demonte (directores), Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española, Vol. 3, Madrid, Espasa: 4757-4839.

Palacios, Azucena. 2005. Aspectos teóricos y metodológicos del contacto de lenguas: el sistema pronominal del español en áreas de contacto con lenguas amerindias, en Volker. Noll, Klaus Zimmermann e Ingrid Neumann-Holzchuh (eds.), El español en América. Aspectos teóricos, particularidades, contactos, Frankfurt/Madrid, Vervuert/Iberoamericana: 63-92.

Old editions republished or reprinted

Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. [1583] 1991. Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, editado por Carmelo Sáenz de Santa María, México, Alianza Editorial.

The resource of the two dates, the first one between straight brackets ([ ]) WILL ONLY BE USED for old texts, more than 100 years old, to distinguish them from modern editions of the text, whose date will appear after the original.

THIS RESOURCE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO CITE TRANSLATIONS, putting the date of the original in parentheses and then the date of the translation. In this case, the translator will be appointed as follows:

Sapir, Edward. 1956. El lenguaje. Introducción al estudio del habla (Tr. de Margit y Antonio Alatorre), México, Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Communication/paper presented at a congress (unpublished)

Hora, Dermeval da. 1996. Comportamento das oclusivas dentais /t/ e /d/ na comunidade pessoense, Comunicação apresentada no XI Encontro Nacional da ANPOLL, João Pessoa, Paraíba, 3-6 junho 1996.

Communication/paper presented in congress (published)

Leitzke, Eva. 1990. On Ambivalent (De)nominal Adjectives, en Werner Bahner, Joachim Schildt y Dieter Viehweger (eds.), Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Linguists (Berlin 1987), Berlin, Akademie Verlag: 676-680.

Graduate thesis

There are only three possibilities to refer to postgraduate thesis:

a) The thesis has been published as a book: in this case it is cited as any book by an author. Example: Laca, Brenda. 1986. Die Wortbildung als Grammatik des Wortschatzes. Untersuchungen zur spanischen Subjektnominalisierung, Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag.

b) The thesis can only be found on the INTERNET: in this case, indicate first if it is a PhD or Master's thesis; then the university where the thesis was defended, then the city where the university is located, then write down “[online]” and finally its location with this formula “Available in...” Eg: Garcia, Talita Storti. 2010. As relações concessivas no português falado sob a perspectiva da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional. Tese de doutorado, Universidade Estadual Paulista. São José de Rio Preto [en línea]. Disponible en: http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/100114

c) The thesis is unpublished: in this case, the same steps are followed as in the previous case, but after the city, write “Unpublished”. Eg: Pezatti, Erotilde Goreti. 1992. A ordem de palavras em português: aspectos tipológicos e funcionais, Tese de Doutorado, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara. Inédita.

Electronic documents

Borrego Nieto, Julio. 2003. Norma hispánica y normas regionales en los medios de comunicación, XIV Congreso Internacional de ASELE, Medios de Comunicación y Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera, Burgos [online]. Disponible en: https://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/asele/pdf/14/14_0066.pdf

THE AUTHORS WILL PAY ATTENTION, BEFORE SENDING THEIR PAPERS TO LINGÜÍSTICA, ON THE CORRECTION OF THE INDICATED LINK, MAKE SURE THAT IT LEADS TO THE SITE RELEVANT TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE.

Aspects not covered in these Instructions

All aspects related to the organization and editing of the text by the Author that are not referred to here, will respond to the will of the latter, even when they may be modified, for greater stylistic uniformity, in the process of reviewing the manuscript by the Director- Editor.