Wege zur Offenheit: Open-Access-Politiken in globaler Perspektive

Seit der Budapest Open Access Initiative, die als Startpunkt systematischer Bestrebungen gilt, die Publikation von Forschungsergebnissen in den Open Access zu überführen, ist nahezu ein Vierteljahrhundert vergangen, und die Transformation ist bei weitem noch nicht abgeschlossen. Verglichen mit anderen digitalen Innovationen erscheint die Geschwindigkeit dieses Wandlungsprozesses somit vergleichsweise gering. Der Vortrag nimmt diese Beobachtung zum Ausgangspunkt, fragt nach möglichen Ursachen und richtet den Blick auf eine wesentliche Rahmenbedingung: Open-Access-Policies. Anhand eines Ländervergleichs wird die Implementierung von Open Access in mehreren Ländern untersucht. In international vergleichender Perspektive zeigt sich, dass erhebliche Differenzen bestehen – sowohl hinsichtlich der Zielvorstellungen einer Open-Access-Transformation als auch in Bezug auf die eingesetzten Modelle und die für ihr Zustandekommen verantwortlichen Akteure. Angesichts dieser Unterbestimmtheiten und Widersprüchlichkeiten kann das bislang erreichte Ausmaß an Offenheit von Forschungsergebnissen dennoch als Erfolg gelten. Die im Vortrag präsentierten Ergebnisse stammen aus dem Projekt ROARA, das von der VolkswagenStiftung gefördert wird

Towards a unified analysis of Mandarin non-canonical arguments

In Mandarin, agent and theme arguments occur in complementary distribution with so-called “non-canonical” arguments (NCAs) that realize oblique thematic roles (Li 2014, Lin 2001). In this paper, we demonstrate that such alternations can be derived naturally from a combination of independent and cross-linguistically well-established phenomena, including (non-)recursive applicative heads (Nie 2020) and anti-agentivity (Martin et al. 2023)

Antilocality in Samoan nominalizations

Based on data from nominalizations in Samoan, this paper develops a novel analysis of the source of the unaccusative restriction on nominalizations, which has been argued to follow from selectional properties of the nominalizer n. Focusing on genitive case alternations on external arguments, sensitive to the presence of additional aspectual layers, I demonstrate that the ban on external arguments in nominalizations is expected under general antilocality constraints

The multifunctionality of Armenian complementizer te

This paper investigates Armenian te, offering novel evidence that challenges its categorization alongside semantically empty complementizers like English that. Our findings not only support recent arguments for the multifunctionality of complementizers (Staps & Rooryck 2023, Tollan & Palaz 2024) but also connect with insights on the semantic contributions of reportative and dubitative markers (Kaiser 2022). Building on Murray (2010) and Krifka (2015), we propose that when te introduces clauses under speech-act, doxastic, or epistemic verbs, it occupies a high Commitment head above ForceP, functioning as a stance operator that weakens the speaker’s commitment to the embedded proposition. This analysis highlights how complementizers may interact with broader semantico-syntactic phenomena such as evidentiality, mirativity, and speaker stance, thereby contributing to ongoing debates about the multifunctionality of complementizers (Staps & Rooryck 2023, Tollan & Palaz 2024)

An illusory violation of the Affix Ordering Generalisation in Tigrinya

This paper deals with the Affix Ordering Generalisation (AOG), an integral part of stratal frameworks, which postulates that all stem-level affixes are positioned closer to the root than all word-level affixes. Tigrinya, a Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia, seems to exhibit a configuration where a word-level affix is closer to the root that a stem-level affix; a violation of the AOG. I argue that this AOG violation is illusory and show that there is no phonological evidence to assume that stem-level phonology is triggered after word-level phonology. There is therefore no reason abandon the AOG or Strict Layering of strata. I propose that the stem-level suffix that follows the word-level suffix changes its stratal affiliation to word-level in this position. This paper provides a detailed, novel analysis of this stratal change using global, morphological optimisation that interacts with weak and strong stratal indices modelled using gradient symbolic representations to determine stratal domains. The analysis remains restrictive by predicting possible and impossible patterns of stratal changes

Underspecification and contextual faithfulness in analysing opacity with OT and rule-based serialism

This paper discusses how the new analysis of self-destructive feeding (SDF) sheds light on the competition between rule-based serialism and OT. It was shown by Wang (2025) that SDF could be reduced to allomorph optimisation with appropriate constraints in Parallel OT, suggesting that OT may not be outperformed by rule-based serialism in the respect of analysing certain overapplication opacity. This paper proposes that rule-based serialism is still better insofar that the nature of rule-based phonology requires fewer analytical tools in its theoretical framework

Subtype readings in Hindi numerical reduplication

Given appropriate context, numerical reduplication in Hindi leads to subtype readings (SRs), where the distribution of the share happens over subtypes of itself. We propose that the use of reduplication in such cases presupposes a partition of the noun set based on a salient property (such as type, or color). This analysis also accounts for non-subtype implicit key cases, such as distribution over implicit individuals or locations. We discuss how SRs reveal the importance of noun set structure (in context) to building distributive meaning, and plural meaning more broadly

Specificity vs. lexical restriction: Inspecting D-linking in wh-islands

In this study, we follow up on the theoretical debate on the alleged syntactic effects of D-linking. We tried to tease apart the discourse-related component from the morphosyntactic effects driven by complex wh- phrases by (i) operationalizing D-linking as specificity and (ii) by comparing the acceptability of extraction of wh-items with and without D-linking, but crucially always bearing some form of lexical restriction. We present here three novel acceptability judgment tasks inspecting the role of D-linking and lexical restriction in the amelioration of Italian wh-island effects. Our results weaken the hypothesis that a discourse factor alone may modulate wh-island violations, while demanding deeper scrutiny on the role of lexical restriction

When a wh-in-situ behaves like a parasitic gap

This work investigates the syntax of wh-in-situ by drawing attention to a unique type of multiple wh-question in Mandarin, which we refer to as the visible parasitic gap construction. Specifically, an island-bound wh-in-situ, i.e., what we call the visible parasitic gap, is licensed by the covert Ā-movement of an independent island-free wh-in-situ, in essentially the same way as the licensing of a standard parasitic gap. We therefore argue that (i) wh-in-situ may license parasitic gaps, and that (ii) LF movement of wh-in-situ should remain available as an option for the scope interpretation of wh-phrases in Mandarin grammar

RWTH Publications - Entwicklung und Betrieb eines Repositoriums im Verbund mit JOIN²

RWTH Publications fungiert als institutionelles Repositorium der RWTH Aachen, das darauf abzielt, wissenschaftliche Publikationen der Hochschulangehörigen zu sammeln und sichtbar zu machen. Es vereint die Funktionen einer Forschungs- und Hochschulbibliographie sowie eines Publikationsservers, der auch Forschungsdaten und Forschungssoftware mit einschließt.    In diesem Vortrag wird die Kooperation im Rahmen der JOIN²-Initiative beleuchtet. Seit 2011 wird die zugrunde liegende Software, basierend auf dem am CERN entwickelten Invenio, kontinuierlich an die Bedürfnisse der beteiligten wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen angepasst. Angesichts gestiegener Anforderungen an moderne Repository-Systeme wird im Rahmen von JOIN² eine Migration auf die Plattform MyCoRe/MIR vorbereitet. Dabei werden sowohl die damit verbundenen Ziele als auch die Herausforderungen vorgestellt und ein erster Einblick in das neue System gegeben