New journal alert: Ampersand (Elsevier)

The world seems to be bursting at the seams with linguistics news ... Word of the Year stuff is cranking up, and the frenzy over mapping language continues (see this cool piece from WaPo) and I'm more puzzled than ever about how language works.

But there's also a new journal, Ampersand, that just published its first article. It's part of the new wave of open access scholarly publishing, so you can get to material even without library privileges. The first article is definitely worth reading ... nice take on a classic issue.