“國際美國語言學雜志”致力于記錄和分析美洲土著語言。IJAL由Franz Boas和Pliny Earle Goddard于1917年創立，是基于現場工作和北美和南美語言檔案材料研究的重要資料庫。出現在IJAL中的文章可能源于對語言的一般描述性工作，但通常側重于語言學的一個子學科 - 語音學，語音學，形態學，語法或語義學中分析的語言的各個方面。我們還鼓勵社會語言學，人類學語言學和歷史語言學以及區域和類型學研究領域的提交。文章可以從任何理論的角度撰寫，只要作者提供原創的，有爭議的，清晰呈現的分析，并且該論文包含了對該語言的文獻記錄有價值的實質性經驗數據。論文可以用英語或西班牙語提交。

The International Journal of American Linguistics is dedicated to the documentation and analysis of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Founded by Franz Boas and Pliny Earle Goddard in 1917, IJAL is an important repository for research based on field work and archival materials on the languages of North and South America.Articles appearing in IJAL may result from general descriptive work on a language, but typically focus on aspects of the language analyzed within one of the sub-disciplines of linguistics—phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, or semantics. We also encourage submissions in the areas of sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, and historical linguistics, as well as areal and typological studies. Articles may be written from any theoretical perspective, as long as the author offers an original, well-argued, and clearly-presented analysis, and the paper incorporates substantial empirical data that will be of value for the documentary record of the language. Papers may be submitted in either English or Spanish.