Johan Rooryck

cash in now, retract later: a version of 'act now, apologize later'

Animacy restrictions without animacy features: The case of strong pronouns in French and Spanish When used as complements in prepositional phrases, French (and to a certain extent also Spanish) strong and null pronouns seem to differ in animacy: Typically, strong pronouns have human antecedents a...

da Cunha, Yanis & Heidinger, Steffen. 2025. Animacy restrictions without animacy features: The case of strong pronouns in French and Spanish. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–40.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Multiple sources of movement-derived resumption: Evidence from Atchan This paper argues for the existence of multiple mechanisms in the grammar that can give rise to resumption in syntactic movement. Empirical motivation for this split comes from extraction patterns in ...

Jarvis, Rebecca. 2026. Multiple sources of movement-derived resumption: Evidence from Atchan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–46.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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<em>Este hombre</em> or <em>el hombre este</em>? Semantic factors defining pre- or postnominal demonstrative constructions This study focuses on the relationship between the semantic features of nouns and the pre-nominal vs. post-nominal demonstrative construction in European Spanish. Saying este hombre or el hombre este ...

Todisco, Emanuela & Wallentin, Mikkel. 2026. 'Este hombre' or 'el hombre este'? Semantic factors defining pre- or postnominal demonstrative constructions. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–34.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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💎 Building a global future for Diamond Open Access!
We’re at the 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOA in Bengaluru this week and our very own Co-Coordinator @johanrooryck.bsky.social is on the ground discussing equitable, community-driven publishing. Come talk to us and grab your #EDCH sticker!

I will bide my time until you figure out bode, from my humble abode.

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✅Scoping Report on Non-for-profit Publishing Ecosystems
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This is part of where your APCs go when you publish in MDPI and Frontiers. They use that money to buy more influence.

Until funders, WoS, take meaningful action, they will continue to use muzzle velocity to overcome criticisms.

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Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement

“We have to find significant non-pay budget savings so this was the obvious place to start,”

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...

New Artificial Intelligence Policy released by OLH The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is delighted to announce that it has published its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy following more than a year-long consultation process with our journals' edit...

OLH has just released its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy!

After a year-long consultation with our journal editors, the policy sets out how generative AI can be used responsibly in academic publishing. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/885/

MDPI launches new 'freemium' model - Research Information Initiative hopes to help smaller journals, particularly those in underserved markets and global south, with growth and impact

"Affordable scaling options are then available as journals grow"

This 'freemium' model is clearly a ploy to get new journals on board in order to pressure them into publishing more articles, probably through special issues knowing MDPI.

How to do #RefereeCredit: Discussing 6 implementation ideas workshopped @coarassessment.bsky.social in Berlin with co-chairs @johanrooryck.bsky.social and TungTung Chan. cf. zenodo.org/records/1596.... Contact us to join pilots #ResearchAsessment
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Thanks to Jeffrey and the @science.org news team for this highlight!

Find the paper here:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

So can one now have Belgian waffles with all the Belgian whistles? Asking as a Belgian.

@cmunozperez.bsky.social

Featural Relativized Minimality in silence: the acquisition of sluicing in Italian This paper investigates the acquisition of elliptical indirect wh-questions, i.e. sluicing, by Italian preschool children. The goal is to determine whether the locality principle of featural Relativiz...

Pettenon, E., Sanfelici, E. & Mateu, V., (2026) “Featural Relativized Minimality in silence: the acquisition of sluicing in Italian”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1).
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Stylistic applicatives: a lens into the nature of anticausative <em>SE</em> This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This paper examines an understudied syntactic phenomenon in Chilean Spanish: stylistic applicatives. This construction inv...

Muñoz Pérez, C., (2026) “Stylistic applicatives: a lens into the nature of anticausative SE”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1).
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Lexical P or functional Mood? Grammatical categories and mechanisms of clausal adjunction The paper discusses mechanisms of clausal adjunction, that is, transforming a clause into a modifier with a specific interpretation (purpose, temporal, causal, etc.). It focuses on infinitival rationa...

Burukina, I., (2026) “Lexical P or functional Mood? Grammatical categories and mechanisms of clausal adjunction”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1).
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Winter landscape of a lake and sunlit clouds

A walk in the park

Screenshot with a list of published articles at STAR

Screenshot with a list of published articles at STAR

Four new articles published in Syntactic Theory and Research / @starlinguistics.bsky.social. Check them out at: star-linguistics.org...

Will do, but with the limitations I have outlined. Relatively few authors have Bsky handles, I believe. But I will check.

Surprising at it may seem, asking the authors for a short abstract and handles is a big lift to take on, as is any additional correspondence in the workflow that is not a required part of the workflow.

In 2026, I will try to tweet individual articles in batches of 3. I understand that the 3-article-screenshot is not helpful for findability. I will not be able to add abstracts: they are too long for alt-text, and I do not want to condense them without author consent. All advice welcome.

Happy yo discuss Kirby, but his is quite a commitment! An automated service would have to harvest relevant info from the CC0 (totally open) metadata. Glad to hear suggestions about this.

Will add the #linguistics hashtag in future. Have to think about tweeting individual articles: it really requires a lot of work to do that properly, especially if you want the abstract. Also the audience here is a few 100 people as compared to 6240 on Facebook.

thanks for the feedback. A tweet for every paper + abstract is asking for a lot, as Glossa publishes about 100 papers a year. That would be 10 hours of additional work, all unpaid volunteer work. I am not using an automated service. A screenshot of the abstract would not render well, I fear.

It is unclear to me how much traction Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is getting on BlueSky. I am thinking of switching communication about new papers to LinkedIn, which gives better insight into the # of views garnered. Give us a like if you want Glossa to stay on the Blue side of things.