How to Build a Sovereign Global Knowledge Commons

The world’s scholarly knowledge system is extraordinarily vulnerable to commercial capture and political interference. Governments, funders, and policymakers must act to protect it.

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Sonority-driven stress: codas in Brazilian Portuguese

This study provides experimental evidence for sonority-driven stress in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). We show that speakers systematically prefer final stress when the ultima contains a sonorant coda {N,...

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Countability and gender in complementary distribution: arguing for a four-category classification system in Norwegian

This paper argues for a novel view of the Norwegian noun categorization system, in which a noun can belong to one of four classes. This goes against the traditional generalization that Norwegian is a ...

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The FormCopy Theory of Control: Remarks on Landau

In a recent article, Landau presents an articulated review of Chomsky’s FormCopy theory of control, simultaneously defending his own Two-Tiered theory. Given that raising and control are unified under...

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Editors Mass Resign from Elsevier Journal After Editor-in-Chief Let Go | The Scientist

Six editors and 58 out of 62 advisory editors at an economics journal gave up their positions after the publisher did not renew the editor-in-chief’s contract.

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<em>Doch</em> as a hidden hurdle to finiteness realization in German L1 Acquisition

This paper investigates the role of the German discourse particle doch in the development of finiteness in early German, in particular as it affects the development of ‘functional finiteness’, i.e. th...

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Phonetics in phonology: why Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Martinet and others had to live in sin

One aspect of Saussure's (1916) distinction between Langue and Parole is the fact that phonetics belong to the latter and are absent in the former: no phonetics in phonology. Ever since, though, struc...

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Is it syntax or syncretism? Phases and honorific case markers in Korean

This work develops a phase-based analysis of Korean honorific case markers. Korean displays an asymmetry in its case paradigm: while nominative, dative, and vocative case markers have their honorific ...

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Metalinguistic negation in Jordanian Arabic: Clause-initial <em>miš/mū </em>as a high objection operator

This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This paper argues that clause-initial miš/mū in Jordanian Arabic (JA) instantiates a dedicated objectional/metalinguistico...

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Grammatical generalizations and item-specific listing in Hebrew transitivity alternations

Hebrew transitivity alternations are typically marked by a contrast in verbal template (binyan), raising the question of whether speakers generalize these template alternations through synchronic gram...

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The tripartite architecture of verbal domains: Evidence from Japanese VP anaphora and light verb distributions

This paper provides empirical support for the tripartite VP structure (Voice-v-V), drawing on evidence from Japanese verbal phenomena. We examine two structural distinctions: (i) the demarcation betwe...

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Subject position and island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence

Constructions that inhibit the formation of long-distance dependencies like wh-questions are known as islands. In Spanish, it has been claimed that pre-verbal subjects are islands but post-verbal subj...

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Implicating without intentions

Building on Geurts (2019) programmatic proposal, this paper develops a commitment-based model of Scalar Implicatures (SIs) that shifts the explanatory focus from speaker intentions and mental states t...

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Coordination of predicates and modifiers in a Meaning-Dependent Grammar

The problem of the coordination of unlike syntactic categories is addressed in the framework of Categoriless Meaning-Dependent Grammar advocated by Elbourne. In particular, the phenomenon of the coord...

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Clarivate removes hold on mega-journal Heliyon after internal audit, 650+ retractions

Clarivate has lifted its hold on Heliyon after the journal’s internal audit led to over 1,000 retractions, expressions of concern and corrections. As a result, the journal will receive an impact fa…

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Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

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Structural and semantic factors in the <em>belief-intent</em> alternation in Basque

Clause-embedding predicates alternating between a complement expressing a belief and a complement expressing an intention seem to be quite widespread both inside and across languages. The two differen...

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If you want to publish papers in your own language, look to Diamond OA - LSE Impact

Diamond OA publications contain more work in languages other than English, Johan Rooryck & Janne Pölönen argue for more national & international co-ordination.

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If you want to publish papers in your own language, look to Diamond OA - LSE Impact

Diamond OA publications contain more work in languages other than English, Johan Rooryck & Janne Pölönen argue for more national & international co-ordination.

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Equity in Open Access Means Thinking Beyond Fees

Diamond open access pushed the conversation from free-to-read to free-to-publish. It’s time to think of equity more broadly.

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Mid Vowel Alternation in Menominee: A Substance-Free Search Account

A substance-free logical analysis is given concerning the mid vowel alternation in Menominee, one of the frequently mentioned cases in the studies of vowel harmony. The analysis consists of only rules...

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Greek declaratives <em>and-what-not</em>: form, structure and interpretation

The present paper focuses on a peculiar Greek construction with the following characteristic properties: (i) the licensing of fronted wh-words that denote variables in the context of a non-interrogati...

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Adjunct Island Effect on Wh-Scrambling in Korean

In this squib, we present experimental evidence that Korean wh-scrambling, unlike non-wh-scrambling or wh-in-situ, is constrained by the -ttay temporal adjunct island effect. We further show that this...

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Passing the torch

Johan Rooryck is stepping down as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, having served two consecutive terms as Editor-in-Chief for a total of 10 years. The members of the edi...

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If you want to publish papers in your own language, look to Diamond OA - LSE Impact

Diamond OA publications contain more work in languages other than English, Johan Rooryck & Janne Pölönen argue for more national & international co-ordination.

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