Governance Framework
Explorations in Linguistic Review uses a governance structure that distinguishes collective institutional responsibility, executive administration, and scholarly editorial judgment.
This structure is intended to preserve both editorial independence and clear responsibility for the journal's academic direction, administration, and publication operations.
General Assembly
The General Assembly is the principal collective governance body of ELR. It safeguards the journal's mission and considers major questions concerning institutional governance and long-term development.
- determining major strategic directions of the journal;
- overseeing the organisational and governance framework of ELR;
- approving or revising the journal's governing framework;
- appointing members from among the General Assembly to constitute the Executive Centre;
- reviewing commitments undertaken by the Executive Centre on behalf of the journal.
The General Assembly may appoint one or more of its members to constitute the Executive Centre. The Executive Centre may represent the General Assembly in relations with third parties and remains accountable for commitments undertaken in that capacity.
Executive Centre
The Executive Centre coordinates ELR's administrative, technical, production, and publication work and supports the implementation of decisions made through the journal's governance structure.
Academic acceptance and rejection decisions remain part of the scholarly editorial process. Administrative and production responsibilities do not replace peer review or academic editorial judgment.
Executive Director · Co-Editor-in-Chief
Ryan Hong-Kit SHEUNG
Executive Director
Co-Editor-in-Chief — Academic & Technical
Zhejiang Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Technician
Hunan University (Changsha, China)
Historical Chinese Grammar · Syntax · Distributed Morphology · Chomskyan Frontier Theories
Academic WebsiteCo-Editor-in-Chief
Adæmrys Chihjen CHENG
Co-Editor-in-Chief — Academic & Language
University of Ottawa
Syntax · Semantics
Co-Editors-in-Chief
The Co-Editors-in-Chief share responsibility for the journal's academic direction and final scholarly editorial decisions.
They conduct or coordinate initial editorial screening, work with the relevant Subject Editor in reviewer selection, consider peer-review reports and editorial assessments, and jointly confirm final academic decisions.
The inaugural Co-Editors-in-Chief are appointed through the journal's initial organisational arrangements. Subsequent appointments are made through consultation and nomination involving the Editorial and Academic Committee and the Executive Centre.
Subject Editors
Subject Editors provide specialist academic oversight within major research areas represented by ELR. They assist with reviewer selection, scholarly evaluation, and interpretation of reviewer reports in their fields of expertise.
Editorial and Academic Committee
The Editorial and Academic Committee brings together scholars whose expertise supports the academic mission, disciplinary breadth, and long-term scholarly development of ELR.
The Committee contributes to scholarly stewardship, development of editorial standards, consultation on major academic appointments, and the wider academic direction of the journal.
Invitation to Become an ELR Reviewer
ELR welcomes qualified linguists worldwide to contribute to its double-anonymous peer-review process through careful, independent and constructive scholarly evaluation.
International Peer Review
We invite linguists worldwide to contribute as independent peer reviewers.
Reviewers are selected according to the subject matter and needs of individual manuscripts. ELR welcomes researchers with demonstrable expertise in relevant linguistic subdisciplines, theoretical frameworks, languages or empirical domains.
Registration or an expression of interest does not guarantee a review assignment. Reviewers are expected to provide impartial, confidential, constructive and timely reports in accordance with ELR's editorial policies.
Editorial Responsibility and Independence
ELR distinguishes scholarly editorial decision-making from administrative production. Subject Editors and the Co-Editors-in-Chief manage academic evaluation, while the Executive Centre supports administration, technical operation, production, and publication.
Editors involved in a manuscript should disclose circumstances that could reasonably compromise impartiality and should recuse themselves where appropriate.
ELR Governance Principle
Scholarly authority should be identifiable, distributed, and accountable.
ELR's governance model is intended to support collective academic stewardship while maintaining clear responsibility for scholarly decisions, administrative commitments, and the integrity of the published record.