Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics (COPiL)

COPiL

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The Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics (COPiL) is an online journal of working papers organised by graduate students from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (TAL).

We publish working papers by students, researchers and university staff related to any area of linguistics. COPiL is an ideal forum for disseminating and receiving feedback for pre-print work. It is expected that authors will ultimately submit their work to a peer-reviewed journal or other similar publication. Papers published in COPiL are available for download here.

COPiL also hosts proceedings of workshops and conferences associated with TAL (Volume 8). An archive of handouts from talks can be found on the TAL Talks Archive page.

Our latest volume is available for download: Volume 17 (June 2025)

The call for papers for Volume 18 now open.

For information about our LaTeX crash course, please see our events page.

For any other queries, please contact the editorial team at copil@mmll.cam.ac.uk.

Editors

Past Editors  

  • Alastair Appleton
  • Luïsa Astruc
  • James Baker
  • András Bárány
  • Ema Banerjee
  • J.M.M Brown
  • Alex Cairncross
  • Faye Chalcraft
  • James N. Chancharu
  • Yiyang Guo
  • Nina Haket
  • Xuhui Freddy Hu
  • Marius L. Jøhndal 
  • Sana Kidwai
  • Elliott Lash
  • Yi-An Lin
  • Moreno Mitrovic
  • Li Nguyen
  • Thomas Rainsford
  • Marc Richards
  • Efthymios Sipetzis
  • Chenchen Song
  • Chara Triantafyllidou
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Call for Papers

Submissions for Volume 18 of COPiL are open. 

COPiL publishes paper related to theoretical and applied linguistics. We welcome submissions from any subdomain of linguistics, including but not limited to the following. Occasionally, papers may be rejected in the interest of compiling a cohesive volume.

  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Phonology
  • Phonetics
  • Morphology
  • Pragmatics
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Language Acquisition
  • Pyscholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics

Authors may submit full articles of 10,000 words (excluding data, tables, figures and bibliography) or squibs of any length up to approximately 4,000 words (excluding data, tables, figures and bibliography).

Students wishing to submit must have their paper reviewed by their supervisor prior to submission. Please submit the following form along with your article: Supervisor Consent Form. Supervisors are requested to use their own discretion in advising students to publish. Staff may submit at their own discretion. In cases of joint work, the primary investigator must approve submission. This can be conveyed via email to the editors.

We encourage submission in LaTeX (.tex) with an accompanying BibTex (.bib) file. The LaTeX template can be downloaded as a .zip file here. Submissions in .doc/docx format are also accepted. If you are using Word, please follow the LaTeX template as closely as possible.

COPiL will review submissions for formatting, style, and egregious grammar and spelling errors only.

Submissions and/or enquiries should be directed to the COPiL team at copil@mmll.cam.ac.uk.