LANGUAGE: JOURNAL OF THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA Language Style Sheet

This style sheet results from the accumulated wisdom of those people who have participated in the editing of Language over the years, and have worked to establish and maintain consistency in formatting in the journal’s publications. Please note that this style sheet does not need to be followed in the preparation of manuscripts that are being submitted to the journal for review. Its purpose is to guide authors whose papers have been accepted for publication in the final preparation of their manuscripts for typesetting. Manuscripts that depart from the style sheet will be returned to the author for corrections in egregious cases. Important note about file formats: If at all possible, please prepare the text of your manuscript in a basic word-processing program like Word and submit it as a.doc/.docx/.rtf file. Trees, AMVs, or anything else that requires formatting that is difficult in such programs can be submitted in other formats as special matter (see below for details). Please note that our typesetting process does not use camera-ready text. If you work in LaTeX and submit your manuscript as a.tex file, our typesetters will charge us to convert it to.doc, which is required for both us and them to work with the file an