Natural Language Semantics

Aims & Scope

Natural Language Semantics is devoted to semantics and its interfaces in grammar, especially syntax.

The journal seeks to encourage the convergence of approaches employing the concepts of logic and philosophy with perspectives of generative grammar on the relations between meaning and structure.

Natural Language Semantics publishes studies focused on linguistic phenomena as opposed to those dealing primarily with the field's methodological and formal foundations.

Representative topics include, but are not limited to, quantification, negation, modality, genericity, tense, aspect, aktionsarten, focus, presuppositions, anaphora, definiteness, plurals, mass nouns, adjectives, adverbial modification, nominalization, ellipsis, and interrogatives.

The journal features mainly research articles, but also short squibs as well as remarks on and replies to pertinent books and articles.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.969

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	55

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	5094

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	41

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• A theory of focus interpretation

  Citation: 1178

  Authors: Mats

• Reference to Kinds across Language

  Citation: 783

  Authors: Gennaro

• GIVENNESS, AVOIDF AND OTHER CONSTRAINTS ON THE PLACEMENT OF ACCENT*

  Citation: 352

  Authors: Roger

• Sluicing and logical form

  Citation: 250

  Authors: Sandra, William A., James

• The progressive

  Citation: 178

  Authors: Fred

• Intervention Effects Follow from Focus Interpretation*

  Citation: 178

  Authors: Sigrid

• Free Choice Disjunction and Epistemic Possibility

  Citation: 165

  Authors: Thomas Ede

• On the characterization of alternatives

  Citation: 159

  Authors: Danny, Roni

• Imperatives and modals

  Citation: 157

  Authors: Paul

• A theory of individual-level predicates based on blind mandatory scalar implicatures

  Citation: 148

  Authors: Giorgio

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