Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

{{Infobox journal

| title = Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

| cover = Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.jpg

| editor = Daniel Harbour

| discipline = Theoretical linguistics

| abbreviation = Nat. Lang. Linguist. Theory

| publisher = Springer Science+Business Media

| country =

| frequency = Quarterly

| history = 1983-present

| openaccess =

| impact = 0.845

| impact-year = 2015

| website = https://www.springer.com/journal/11049/

| link2 = https://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/11049

| link2-name = Online archive

| JSTOR = 0167806X

| OCLC = 863227917

| LCCN =

| ISSN = 0167-806X

| eISSN = 1573-0859

}}

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and generative linguistics. It was established in 1983 and originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Since 2004 the journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media. Since 2024, the editor-in-chief has been Daniel Harbour (QMUL).

The journal carries a "Topic-Comment" column (initiated by Geoffrey K. Pullum), in which a contributor presents a personal, sometimes controversial, opinion on some aspect of the field.