Johan Rooryck

Clausal complementation as relativization, revisited In Nez Perce, some but not all notional complement clauses show the characteristic morphology of relativization. In contrast to some cross-linguistic data emphasizing nominalization as the source of commonalities between notional complement clauses and relative clauses, I show that relative-like notional complement clauses in Nez Perce are simply CPs with no nominal superstructure. It is the internal syntax of these clauses that is relative-like, involving Ā movement from a high functional projection inside CP. I show that the language makes a distinction between two types of notional complement clauses, those that involve Ā movement of this sort (“relative embeddings”) and those that do not (“simplex embeddings”). One conclusion is that not all clausal complementation is relativization, pace work by Richard Kayne and especially by Boban Arsenijević (“Clausal complementation as relativization,” 2009, Lingua 119.1.39–50). Another conclusion is that relative-like notional complement clauses show variation across languages at least as concerns nominal superstructure and the generation of factive inferences.

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#Savethedate for the 2nd cross-regional Diamond OA Policy Forum!

After the 1st edition last October and the regional forums, policy makers and funders from the 3 regions will discuss together on diamond publishing policies & funding.

🗓️Date: 30 March, 16:00-17:00 CET
✅Register: u2l.fr/cgad28

🗣️Speakers: Mikael Laakso (Tampere University, Finland), Pilar Rico Castro (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), Thomas Leibundgut (Swiss universities, Switzerland), Marie-Emilia Herbet (Université Jean-Moulin Lyon 3, France)

💬 Discussion language: english

🌟 EDCH Registry Spotlight!
We’re delighted to feature @pubinpt.bsky.social a member of the EDCH Registry.
PUBIN (Integrated, Intelligent, and Innovative Publications) is a nationwide platform strengthening and modernising scientific journal publishing in #Portugal.

Is Subscribe to Open Good for Libraries? Three librarians explain the model’s appeal and explore the challenges it presents.

PROS & CONS - (mostly pros) about Subscribe to Open explored here katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Join us for the Diamond OA Policy Forum Africa - english session
🗓️ Date & time: Tuesday, 3rd March 2026, 14:00-15:30 CAT
💬 Discussion language: english
🗣️Speakers: Susan Veldsman (Academy of Science of South Africa), Lighton Phiri (University Of Zambia)
✅Register: u2l.fr/mqwh2k

🗓️ Save the date for the 1st regional meetings of the Diamond OA Policy Forum!
👀 Focusing on policymaking, they will gather decision-makers from the same region and share some findings from 3 resources of ALMASI project.
✅Discover the programme of each event and register: u2l.fr/zymyud

Exciting times for the Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA) - UKSG With the coming of digital publishing and new technologies, increasing awareness of the benefits of open access publishing and growing criticism of the practices and profits of commercial publishers, ...

JOINING FORCES: www.uksg.org/newsletter/u... OIPA officially launched in 2023 w 10 members. This new community of practice now forms vital infrastructure supporting non-profit open access publishing in universities and offers authors important alternative publishing venues.

Prosodic anchoring in Basque cluster simplification Consonant cluster simplification in Basque depends on the prosodic domain. Simplification across morpheme boundaries is obligatory while simplification across word boundaries is optional. Moreover, st...

Dunin-Borkowski, Jakub. 2026. Prosodic anchoring in Basque cluster simplification. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–33.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics #prosody #basque

Head movement and motion events in Takituduh Bunun The aim of this paper is to explore the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of the Takituduh Bunun (Austronesian: Central Taiwan) motion prefix u-, glossed as MOT. One central function of this pre...

Bogren Svensson, Victor & Blomberg, Johan. 2026. Head movement and motion events in Takituduh Bunun. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–34.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics #syntax

Rethinking linguistic feedback: A modality-agnostic and holistic approach to multimodal addressee signals in spoken and signed dyadic interaction In this paper, we investigate multimodal recipient feedback in casual dyadic conversation in four languages: German Sign Language, Russian Sign Language, spoken German, and spoken Russian. Taking a mo...

Bauer, A. & Gipper, S. & Herrmann, T.-A. & Hosemann, J.. 2026. Rethinking linguistic feedback: A modality-agnostic and holistic approach to multimodal addressee signals in spoken and signed dyadic interaction. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–50.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...

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...
#linguistics

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...
#linguistics

<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...
#linguistics

💎 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.

🎉 We’re proud to be members of the newly launched Open Journals Collective!

At OLH, we believe in community-led, non-profit diamond open access publishing. OJC is a big step toward a more equitable future for journals and the wider scholarly publishing ecosystem

Read more 👇

New resources to advance #DiamondOA in Africa, Europe, and Latin America!

✅Scoping Report on Non-for-profit Publishing Ecosystems
✅Landscape Report on Diamond OA Publishing
✅Advocacy Materials: talking points, videoclips and organisation guide for online events.

Find resources: u2l.fr/9qt8bo

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