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About this Journal

Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL) 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. 


Latest News Posts

First Accepted Articles (Pre-publication Versions)

Posted by The Editors, Semantics of Natural Languages on 2026-06-02

We are excited to launch with a slate of first articles already accepted, which we are making available as pre-publication versions here (official, typeset versions coming soon): Yurika Aonuki: Scale-sensitivity of comparatives and measure phrase interpretations in Gitksan Keny Chatain & Philippe Schlenker: ­Local Pragmatics Redux: Presupposition Accommodation Without Covert Operators Jingyi [...]

Semantics of Natural Languages Open Letter

Posted by The Editors, Semantics of Natural Languages on 2026-05-19

We, the editors and former editors of Natural Language Semantics, are thrilled to announce the launch of Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL), a new diamond open access journal. SNL is the scholar-owned and scholar-led intellectual successor to Natural Language Semantics. It is published with Open Library of Humanities under the auspices of LingOA. The editors and editorial board of Natural [...]