About the journal

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).

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

The call for papers for Volume 18 is now closed.

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