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LSAFriday EveningChanges.Language Annual Report for 2012Greg CarlsonOur deepest thanks to outgoing associate editors Harald Baayen, Jen Hay, and Jason Merchant. And warm welcomes to incomingassociate editors James McCloskey, Elsi Kaiser, Claire Bowern, and Michael Cysouw. Their efforts and their dedication toexcellence are essential to the journal, and deeply appreciated.Volume 88 of Language for the year 2012 consists of four issues comprising 936 pages. The volume contains 19 articles, 4discussion notes, 1 short report and 55 book reviews.Papers submitted in 2012. In all, 120 new submissions were received between November 15 of 2011 and November 15 of 2012.There were 97 first submissions and 23 revised submissions.This represents a decrease of 20 submissions from last yearTopic areas of the 120 submitted papers were distributed as follows:Discourse 1Discussion Note 5History of Linguistics 1Language Acquisition 5Language Change 11Language teaching 7Linguistics Terminology 1Literacy 1Literary interpretation 1Metatheory 1Morphology 10Phonetics 3Phonology 8Pragmatics 6Psycholinguistics 7Semantics 16Sociolinguistics/Language variation 5Syntax 28Translation 2Total papers acted on in 2012 . Including papers submitted the previous year, but still pending action as of November 15, 2011, atotal of 128 papers were acted on between November 15, 2011 and November 15, 2012. In all, 14 papers were accepted, 10 wereaccepted with minor revisions, 35 were returned for revision with suggestion to resubmit, and 69 were rejected. One paper waswithdrawn. Percentage accepted rate of all papers acted on in 2012 is about 19 percent.Length of time between submission and decision for that time period ranged from one week to 59 weeks, the average time todecision was 30 weeks.Many thanks to Associate Editors: Adam Albright, Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Claire Bowern, Michael Cysouw, Heidi Harley, ElsiKaiser, Lisa Matthewson, James McCloskey, Shana Poplack, and Kie Zuraw.Special recognition is due Book Review Editor Natsuko Tsujimura, who has extended her appointment to continue for anotheryear. We very much appreciate her extraordinary efforts in making sure the book review section continues to thrive.Hope Dawson and Audra Starcheus once again deserve special recognition for their unparalleled work in copyediting and proofreading. Kerrie Merz’s continued superb work in the journal main office has played an expanding role in carrying the journalforward. The LSA is very fortunate to have such a team supporting the journal.Agenda for 2013. After the decisions by the LSA Executive Committee of 2012 reorganizing the LSA’s electronic publishingprogram and given the launching of the LSA’s new web site this past fall, we will be moving into the implementation phase ofpublishing expanded Language contents online only and making greater use of our enhanced electronic abilities. The leadershipat Project Muse has been especially helpful in moving us forward. This transition presents a number of technical and conceptualchallenges to be worked out as we proceed. While Language itself remains a print publication, we are laying the groundwork toreformulate it as a truly electronic journal in the next couple of years. The activity surrounding these developments has at timesinhibited our ability to respond to the very strong concerns we have about time to decision for submissions. Concrete steps havenow been undertaken to address this issue with the appointment of Stanley Dubinsky (University of South Carolina) as ExecutiveEditor.45