Focus and Scope

Glossa Contact is an international peer-reviewed Diamond Open Access journal devoted to furthering the understanding of the sources, processes, and effects of language contact, symbiosis, and change in multilingual settings. Articles in Glossa Contact must combine theoretical and empirical perspectives to illuminate synchronic, diachronic, oral, written or signed dimensions of language contact. Submissions may adopt a variety of methodologies ― including historical, typological, anthropological, sociolinguistic, philological, experimental, and computational methods ― in order to shed light on both the language faculty and language as a social system. Submissions from all subfields and theoretical perspectives are appropriate. The journal particularly welcomes contributions that attempt to cross disciplinary divides, and that present their findings in a way that is accessible to the wide and diverse community of language-contact scholars.

The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready, to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in getting content publically available.

Special Collections of articles are welcomed and will be published as part of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page.

Glossa Contact is part of the Glossa family of journals, together with Glossa: a journal of general linguistics and Glossa Psycholinguistics. The journals of the Glossa family are independent entities, but we strive to align our policies and standards and to share best practices. 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Authors of published articles remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to a Creative Commons license agreement.   

One of the benefits of open access publishing lies in others being able to re-use material. We believe that the greatest societal good is possible when people are free to re-distribute scholarship and to create derivative works. This is why we use the CC BY 4.0 license, under which others may re-use your work, on condition that they cite you.  

If a more restrictive licence is required (for example, if you are reproducing third party material that cannot be reproduced under more open licences), please make this request upon submission in the ‘Comment to the Editor’ field or email your editor directly, stating the reasons why.

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Publication data

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All papers within the journal are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) at the time of publication, providing a more persistent identifier to the article and helping to track citations.

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