Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing Cancer Research UK’s decision to stop funding article processing charges marks a significant shift in how they approach open access. In its April 1st announcement (not an April Fool), the org…

New from me: Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing

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Exactly. CRUK thus makes the cost of publishing someone else’s problem, without even considering alternative solutions.

Countability and measured parts in mixed drink nouns Liquids (oil, wine) are considered to be canonical non-countable nouns. Yet nouns referring to cocktails and coffee drinks (margarita, cappuccino) display strongly countable behavior, which raises que...

Moon, Ellise. 2026. Countability and measured parts in mixed drink nouns. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–27. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Not all coexpressions are syncretisms: Limiting Nanosyntax This paper revises the findings of Dekier (2021) concerning the syncretism and containment of indefinites in light of their semantic implausibility and empirical inadequacy, compared to the alternativ...

Bubnov, Gleb. 2026. Not all coexpressions are syncretisms: Limiting Nanosyntax. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–15. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Schwarzer, Luise. 2026. The law and order of selection-violating coordination: German DP-CP-coordination is not sensitive to linear or temporal order. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–19.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Three arguments for abstraction in phonology Much recent research in cognitive and brain sciences links speech processing to the auditory and articulatory systems. These facts notwithstanding, here, I argue that phonology is abstract, algebraic,...

Berent, Iris. 2026. Three arguments for abstraction in phonology. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 12(1), 1–24. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Reconciling animacy and noun class in Bantu This squib investigates the relationship between animacy and the noun class system of Bantu languages. Combining facts from various animacy-sensitive phenomena across the family, including anti-agreem...

Halpert, Claire & Hammerly, Christopher. 2026. Reconciling animacy and noun class in Bantu. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–25.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Two kinds of singular <em>they</em>: A usage-based model This squib proposes a theoretical account of singular they that focuses on its pragmatic conditions, and suggests that there are two broad and different classes of singular they: 1) Underspecified sin...

Arnold, Jennifer E. 2026. Two kinds of singular they: A usage-based model. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–14. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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The ABCs of Diamond OA The global diamond open access community gathered in Bengaluru for conversation over kaapi and chai. Malavika Legge reports.

GREAT SUMMARY: "The ABCs of Diamond OA" from Malavika Legge from @oaspa.bsky.social summarising the third global summit on Diamond OA held in February in Bengaluru katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

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Ten Years of Glossa: A Decade of Diamond Open Access in Linguistics Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Glossa, one of our diamond open access linguistics journals. The history of Glossa is closely intertwined with that of the Open Library of …

10 years of 'Glossa: a journal of general linguistics'
www.glossa-journal.org
1151 articles published without charges for authors or readers, thanks to the generous support of @openlibhums.org and the work of our (guest-)editors, reviewers, authors, and readers.
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Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? A reply to Herb (2026) Johan Rooryck (co-coordinator European Diamond Capacity Hub at OPERAS Research Infrastructure) https://pulse49.com/2026/03/23/diamond-open-access-a-boutique-model-for-scholarly-publishing In Diamond O...

@johanrooryck.bsky.social just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA.
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Theseus Files a Boat Insurance Claim 1. How many of your ship’s planks did you replace since your last insurance payment? 2. How many of your ship’s planks did you replace since you first took o...

"Can you confirm—legally, philosophically, or forensically—that the ship you’re making a claim about is the same ship that your policy covers?"

Collaborating for a sustainable open access publishing future: Announcing a new MoU between OBC and OJC - Open Book Collective %%smart_desc%%

We are very pleased to be able to announce that OBC and @ojcollective.bsky.social have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, committing to work together to achieve a sustainable, open access future, for both books and journals obc.copim.pub/collaboratin...

The semantics of plural morphology in Akan With initial native speaker judgements suggesting an exclusive plural morpheme in downward entailing contexts in Akan, as reported by Ahenkorah (2022), this research seeks to test these claims through...

Ladore, Madeline. 2026. The semantics of plural morphology in Akan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–28.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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<em>Wh-</em>interrogatives in Camuno This study examines wh-interrogatives in Camuno, an endangered Northern Italian dialect. While similar constructions have been addressed in the literature, our analysis offers a novel contribution by ...

Neagu, Anda & Fiorini, Matteo. 2026. Wh-interrogatives in Camuno. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–39. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Bipartite question formation in Sm’algyax Matrix questions in Sm’algyax (Tsimshianic; British Columbia, Alaska) are doubly marked. Wh-questions involve the fronting of a wh-expression to the clause-initial position, together with the interrog...

Brown, Colin. 2026. Bipartite question formation in Sm’algyax. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–49. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Very happy to be contributing to the #DiamondOA side of this initiative via @operaseu.bsky.social

Very happy to be co-leading this fantastic project with Pierre Mounier, Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou, and Mandy Y. Lin at OPERAS Research Infrastructure

Launch of global consultation: Equitable scholarly communication for UNESCO is launching a consultation to explore fair, inclusive ways to create, share, and access academic knowledge, and to address challenges in building more equitable systems.

UNESCO has launched a consultation to explore "fair, inclusive ways to create, share, and access academic knowledge, and to address challenges in building more equitable systems."

Deadline for contributions is April 13.

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Image of a text: a screenshot of a list of journal published articles at Glossa

Check out the latest articles published in Glossa: a journal of general linguistics / @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social: www.glossa-journal.o...

Semantic coherence in noun class assignment: An experimental investigation of isiXhosa A central question in research on grammatical gender is whether it is semantically meaningful. This paper employs an auditory lexical decision task to investigate the role of noun class (NC) semantic ...

Berghoff, Robyn & Stockall, Linnaea & Jonas, Khanyiso. 2026. Semantic coherence in noun class assignment: An experimental investigation of isiXhosa. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–15.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...

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Cross-clausal movement and its limits Constraints on movement are of central concern to syntactic theory. Recent work has focused on the relationship between the height of the landing site and locality restrictions. Keine (2020) argues th...

Mikkelsen, Line & Schmidt, Grethe & Thrane, Ellen. 2026. Cross-clausal movement and its limits. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–45.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...

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Transitivity in flux: the role of Voice and v in the syntax of Dutch (change-of-)location verbs Dutch location and change-of-location verbs exhibit seemingly contradictory properties, with characteristics of transitives and unaccusatives mixed. While base verbs like vallen ‘fall’ are unaccusativ...

Burukina, Irina & den Dikken, Marcel & Polinsky, Maria. 2026. Transitivity in flux: The role of Voice and v in the syntax of Dutch (change-of-)location verbs. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–16.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...

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only if it brings in oodles of money.

Fantastic work from Joe Muller, our @openlibhums.org Senior Publishing Technologies Developer! Joe explains how he integrated ROR into @janewayolh.bsky.social. Since Oct 2025, 74% of OLH articles & 43% of the backlist have ROR affiliations. This helps us link OLH articles to libraries #OpenAccess

As many as the market will bear!