English Language and Linguistics has reached volume 25. This kind of jubilee prompts reflection and we four current editors of the journal would like to take this opportunity to look back over its history a little, to consider how it has developed during its first quartercentury. ELL’s founding editors (Bas Aarts, David Denison and Richard Hogg) published an editors’ note in the first issue, back in 1997, setting out the plans for the journal. They wrote that ‘[t]he journal is concerned equally with the synchronic and the diachronic aspects of English language studies and will publish articles of the highest quality which make a substantial contribution to our understanding of the structure and development of the English language and which are informed by a knowledge

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25 年的英语语言和语言学：庆祝和分析

English Language and Linguistics 已达到第 25 卷。这种周年纪念促使我们反思，我们该杂志的四位现任编辑想借此机会回顾一下它的历史，思考它在第一个 25 世纪是如何发展的。ELL 的创始编辑（Bas Aarts、David Denison 和 Richard Hogg）在 1997 年的第一期中发表了一份编辑说明，列出了该期刊的计划。他们写道，“该杂志同样关注英语语言研究的共时和历时方面，并将发表最高质量的文章，这些文章对我们对英语结构和发展的理解做出重大贡献，并且被知识告知