About this Journal

Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL) is a diamond open-access journal published by the Open Library of Humanities. It is a linguistics journal dedicated to the study of meaning in natural languages, with a particular focus on the relation between meaning and linguistic structure. While SNL is firmly grounded in semantics, it welcomes contributions that draw on insights from related fields such as logic, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics and cognition, typology, and the core domains of linguistics — provided the work is specifically directed toward linguists and advances our understanding of semantics. 
 
A central aim of the journal is to elucidate how meaning interacts with linguistic structure, while at the same time broadening the empirical foundation of semantics research beyond English. Articles typically take a particular linguistic phenomenon as their point of departure and approach it with formal rigor, often making use of concepts from logic, philosophy of language, or mathematics.