1. Title of Journal Selected, Volume and Issue
2. Article Title, Author(s), and page numbers
3. Note that the article may do more than one of the following tasks that this question asks about]
What is the article doing? Does it primarily describe a morphological phenomenon in a language? Does it contribute to an ongoing conversation about an issue in morphology? Does it respond to a position taken by someone in an earlier article, arguing for a different position or analytical perspective/framework? Does it use an account of data to make a case for a particular way of looking at morphology? Or, is the article doing something different? If you want to use an IJAL article for this option, is there a reason that the researcher/author has sought to describe a particular phenomenon? What is it?
4. Does the article have an abstract? If so, summarize it in ≤100 words here.
5. What is the central claim of the article? Find where the claim is made, and write the sentence(s) or paragraph making the claim.
5. If there is an argument being made, try to list the points the author uses to support the argument s/he is making.Note where they appear in the article.
6. List any key examples that contribute significantly to whatever argument is being made, and indicate how the examples are being used to support the argument.
7. Make a glossary of words in the piece-linguistic and general-that are new or only faintly familiar to you. List definitions and indicate your source(s) for the definitions.