This issue of JSL, which completes volume 24, includes four stimulating articles about diverse Slavic-linguistic topics, as well as three very useful reviews of recent books likely to be of interest to our readers. It also contains two In Memoriam pieces, marking the sad passing of our venerated colleagues Dean Worth of UCLA and Charles Gribble of Ohio State. Both of these individuals played major roles in strengthening our discipline in the United States. Their impact as scholars and their personal dedication as editors and publishers have been inestimable. The Slavic Linguistics Society continues to prosper. SLS 11, held in Toronto this past September, was a great success, and we look forward with excitement to next year’s meeting in Ljubljana, to take place 21–24 September 2017. Beyond that, the 2018 meeting is already being planned for Vancouver, and the Executive Board has tentatively approved Potsdam to be the host the following year. Also at this year’s meeting, two new Executive Board members were elected, Motoki Nomachi and Rosemarie Connolly, to replace outgoing members Anton Zimmerling and Bojan Belić. Additionally, the members of the board chose Joseph Schallert to serve as the board’s chair for 2016–17, replacing Anton. Please join me in congratulating Joe, in thanking Anton and Bojan for their service, and in welcoming Motoki and Rosie. Also noteworthy from SLS 11 was the first Charles E. Townsend Memorial Award, which went to Roman Ronko (Institute for Modern Linguistic Research, Sholohov University), for his paper “Pseudoincorporation analysis of objects in Old Russian and modern North Russian Dialects”, presented at the Heidelberg meeting in 2015. Turning to journal news, please welcome Neil Bermel of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield as a new Associate Editor. I also wish to express my personal gratitude to Stephen Dickey for his six years of service in that capacity. Stephen is, however, not severing his connections to JSL; indeed, he has been busy spearheading the silver anniversary volume, slated to appear at the end of next year as issue 25.2. I remain very grateful to Rosemarie Connolly for her continuing diligence as Managing Editor, a position which assumes primary responsibility for almost all stages of the editorial and production process. When I step down as Editor-in-Chief— something I plan to do in the next few years—whoever takes over the position will find the job made much easier by Rosie’s experience.

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本期 JSL 已完成第 24 卷，包括四篇关于不同斯拉夫语言主题的激动人心的文章，以及对我们的读者可能感兴趣的近期书籍的三篇非常有用的评论。它还包含两篇 In Memoriam 作品，纪念我们尊敬的同事，加州大学洛杉矶分校的 Dean Worth 和俄亥俄州立大学的 Charles Gribble 的不幸逝世。这两个人在加强我们在美国的纪律方面发挥了重要作用。他们作为学者的影响以及作为编辑和出版商的个人奉献是不可估量的。斯拉夫语言学会继续繁荣发展。去年 9 月在多伦多举行的 SLS 11 取得了巨大成功，我们兴奋地期待明年在卢布尔雅那举行的会议，该会议将于 2017 年 9 月 21 日至 24 日举行。除此之外，2018 年的会议已在温哥华举行，执行委员会已初步批准波茨坦为次年的东道主。同样在今年的会议上，选举了两名新的执行委员会成员，Motoki Nomachi 和 Rosemarie Connolly，以取代即将离任的成员 Anton Zimmerling 和 Bojan Belić。此外，董事会成员选择约瑟夫·沙勒特 (Joseph Schallert) 担任 2016-17 年的董事会主席，接替安东。请和我一起祝贺 Joe，感谢 Anton 和 Bojan 的服务，并欢迎 Motoki 和 Rosie。SLS 11 还值得注意的是第一个 Charles E. Townsend 纪念奖，该奖授予 Roman Ronko（肖洛霍夫大学现代语言学研究所），他的论文“古俄语和现代北俄方言中的对象的伪合并分析”，在 2015 年海德堡会议上发表。谈到期刊新闻，请欢迎谢菲尔德大学语言与文化学院的 Neil Bermel 担任新的副主编。我还要对斯蒂芬·迪基 (Stephen Dickey) 以该身份服务了六年表示我个人的感谢。然而，斯蒂芬并没有切断他与 JSL 的联系。事实上，他一直在忙于带头出版银色周年纪念卷，预计将于明年年底作为第 25.2 期出现。我仍然非常感谢 Rosemarie Connolly 作为执行编辑的持续努力，该职位对编辑和制作过程的几乎所有阶段都负有主要责任。