| Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | |
| Cover: | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.jpg |
| Editor: | Julie Anne Legate |
| Discipline: | Theoretical linguistics |
| Abbreviation: | Nat. Lang. Linguist. Theory |
| Publisher: | Springer Science+Business Media |
| Frequency: | Quarterly |
| History: | 1983-present |
| Impact: | 0.845 |
| Impact-Year: | 2015 |
| Website: | https://www.springer.com/journal/11049/ |
| Link2: | https://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/11049 |
| Link2-Name: | Online archive |
| Jstor: | 0167806X |
| Oclc: | 863227917 |
| Issn: | 0167-806X |
| Eissn: | 1573-0859 |
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and generative linguistics. It was established in 1983 and originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Since 2004 the journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania).
The journal carries a "Topic-Comment" column (initiated by Geoffrey K. Pullum), in which a contributor presents a personal, sometimes controversial, opinion on some aspect of the field.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.845.[1]