¹ As it happened, there was only one letter in the March issue, but this present issue has two, as well as three discussion notes.

² Indeed, there have been three submissions under this rubric just since January.

⁴ The January 2008 presentation was entitled ‘Authorship provenance in Language: An increasingly international scope’.

⁵ The Executive Committee was unable to act on this request as there is no provision in the LSA's constitution for such recognition; but the group was encouraged to continue to meet under the auspices of the annual meeting and was invited to bring to the Executive Committee and the LSA membership at large, in the form of resolutions or endorsements, any issues that the group feels are of relevance to the field where LSA involvement would be helpful. As always, I take this opportunity to invite any linguistics journal editors (broadly construed, that is, from any area within linguistics and with any degree of editorial involvement, review editor, associate editor, and the like) among those reading this report to contact me about joining the group and the listserv we maintain.

⁶ The Executive Committee did not feel it could act positively on this request, given the constraints of the LSA's constitution. It did develop an addition to the Society's by-laws, one that was adopted at the open business meeting in January, extending an official invitation to the editor to participate in the Executive Committee meetings. While I welcome this step, I am not convinced it is sufficient, but may leave it to my successor to pursue this issue further.

⁷ The recommendations were approved by the Executive Committee and a new copyright agreement form has been developed, with considerable help from Paul Newman, and is currently being used with all items newly accepted for publication. The debt that I, and all LSA members, owe to Paul for his expert assistance is enormous, and I am pleased to be able to publicly acknowledge his role in guiding Language through some tricky legal terrain.

⁸ This request was approved, as it was considered to fall under the regular budgetary needs of the journal.

⁹ Similarly, if any readers have suggestions, please let me know.

¹⁰ The Secretariat will look into this, but if any readers have opinions as to whether they would be interested in receiving Language in this way, please let me or the Secretariat know.