Re: proceedings and journals


benlizross wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:

Proceedings of regular
meetings tend to become volumes in a series, or independent books. Of
course occasionally linguistics is published in the Proc. Nat. Acad.
Sci., but they tend to be on the level of papers in its journal Science.

If BLS and CLS volumes appear annually and can be paid for by
subscription, does that make them journals? This has always bothered me.

Maybe it's different now, but in my day there was no possibility for an
individual, at least, to "subscribe" to the CLS volumes. For one thing,
there was no permanent CLS staff, just the three officers who were
elected each year, normally from second-year students (i.e., before
anyone had time to get burned out). I don't know how they or who
handled library orders. (Hey, that doesn't seem ungrammatical, though
it would seem to violate the Coordinate Structure Constraint!)

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