2020年3月11日，《亚洲语言与语言学》期刊创刊号正式出版。《亚洲语言与语言学》（Asian Languages and Linguistics，简称ALAL）为北京师范大学和欧洲约翰·本杰明出版社联合出版的语言学英文半年刊，是国际上第一个以整个亚洲的语言为研究对象的语言学期刊，旨在介绍对亚洲语言进行描写与理论分析的高质量研究。该刊由北京师范大学人文和社会科学高等研究院语言科学研究中心主办，刘丹青教授、傅爱兰教授、程工教授担任主编，21名编委会成员来自全球12个国家及地区。
《亚洲语言与语言学》创刊号刊登了主编序言，并收录了6篇研究性论文。主要内容包括：印度果阿大学Avita Abbi教授和印度理工学院Aysakh R.博士介绍了印度安达曼地区尼克巴群岛的濒危语言卢罗语（Luro）格标记形态；德国美因茨大学Bisang教授从类型学角度论述了中国以及东南亚语言中常见的强代词脱落和强分析性现象之间的关系；浙江大学程工教授和刘莹博士运用分布形态学分析了汉语中的构词形态问题，并与希伯来语进行了比较；日本北海道教育大学Katsunobu Izutsu教授和美国佐治亚理工学院Yong-Taek Kim博士从话语-语用角度比较了日语和韩语中受格、与格和伴随格标记交替现象的异同；新加坡南洋理工大学罗仁地教授的文章涉及语言学史，指出现有类型学研究应该更加重视早期学者的优秀学术传统；中国社会科学院语言研究所周晨磊博士重点分析甘肃-青海地区汉语方言格标记的形式与功能，从而探讨中国西北多样化的语言接触面貌。
《亚洲语言与语言学》刊物创刊号将作为样刊，供所有读者免费下载阅读。 具体内容请参见：http://benjamins.com/catalog/alal.1.1
The inaugural issue of Asian Linguistics and Linguistics (ALAL), sponsored by the Center for Language Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences of Beijing Normal University, was published on March 11, 2020.
ALAL is a semi-annual English journal published jointly by Beijing Normal University, China, and John Benjamins Publishing Company, the Netherlands. It is the first international journal of linguistics that covers all Asian languages and aims to enhance high-quality research on the description and analysis of languages throughout Asia. The journal is edited by Prof. Danqing Liu, Prof. Ailan Fu, and Prof. Gong Cheng.21 well-known scholars from 12 countries or regions serve as members of the editorial board.
ALAL’s inaugural issue includes a foreword by the editors-in-chief and six research articles: 1) The first paper by Prof. Anvita Abbi from Goa University and Dr. Vysakh R from Indian Institute of Technology reports the word-formation processes in Luro, a critically endangered language spoken on one of the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, India. 2) The second paper by Prof. Walter Bisang from Mainz University looks at the relationship between radically analytic morphology and radical pro-drop in Chinese, Mainland South-east Asian languages, West African languages, and Pidgin and Creole languages from the diachronic perspective. 3) The third paper by Prof. Gong Cheng and Dr. Ying Liu from Zhejiang University attempts to unify two seemingly divergent word-formation processes: compounding in Chinese and the root-and-pattern system in Hebrew. 4) The fourth paper by Prof. Katsunobu Izutsu from Hokkaido University of Education and Dr. Yong-Taek Kim from Georgia Institute of Technology presents a discourse-pragmatic analysis of event conceptions with accusative, dative and comitative cases and the (ir)regular alternations between these cases in Korean and Japanese. 5) The fifth paper by Prof. Randy LaPolla from Nanyang Technological University focuses on the history of linguistics. He criticizes the structuralist view of linguistic study and argues that the study of language should be understood as a type of behavior involved in communication, which could be exemplified by some Asian languages. 6) The last paper by Dr. Chenlei Zhou from the Institute of Linguistics, CASS describes the forms and usages of case markers in the border area of Gansu and Qinghai in northwest China and examines the effects on linguistic forms in a particular scenario of language contact.
All readers have open access to the inaugural issue. Please visit http://benjamins.com/catalog/alal.1.1 for details.