Announcement for the Online Launching of Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR)

Dear Colleagues,
 
We are very excited to announce the launching of six inaugural papers on the new, peer reviewed, community owned, and fully open access journal Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR) published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). As you know, OLH is dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article charges.  

STAR can be accessed here: https://star-linguistics.org. The first six papers are:

• Stigliano, Laura. 2025. Mixed-identity requirements in ellipsis: the case of topic-remnant elided questions in Spanish. Syntactic Theory and Research 1.1. https://doi.org/10.16995/star.17534.
• Kovač, Iva & Schoenmakers, Gert-Jan. 2025. An experimental-syntactic take on long passive in Dutch: unraveling the patterns underlying its (un)acceptability. Syntactic Theory and Research 1.2. https://doi.org/10.16995/star.17579.
• Keine, Stefan & Bhatt, Rajesh. 2025. Crossover asymmetries. Syntactic Theory and Research 1.3. https://doi.org/10.16995/star.17646.
• Bruening, Benjamin & Tollan, Rebecca. 2025. Reconstruction in wh movement: the view from lexical reactivation. Syntactic Theory and Research 1.4. https://doi.org/10.16995/star.17373.
• Manzini, M. Rita 2025. Left–right asymmetries in Italian adjectives: partial order and phases. Syntactic Theory and Research 1.5. https://doi.org/10.16995/star.18652.
• Werkmann Horvat, Ana & Birtić, Matea & Gračanin-Yuksek, Martina. 2025. How does ‘do so’ do? Testing the applicability of the ‘do so’ test in Croatian. Syntactic Theory and Research 1.6. https://doi.org/10.16995/star.16974.

STAR will publish a wide range of articles on the syntax of natural languages and closely related fields. The journal promotes work on formal syntactic theory and theoretically-oriented descriptive work on specific languages and comparative grammar.  STAR also publishes research on the interfaces between syntax and related fields such as semantics, morphology and phonology as well as theoretical and experimental studies in sentence processing, language acquisition and other areas of psycholinguistics that bear on syntactic theories.   
In addition to full length research articles, STAR, features short articles which facilitate a fast review process.  STAR also publishes special issues dedicated to a single topic.

We thank everyone, especially OLH, the reviewers, and the editorial board for their support and help in getting the journal to this particularly momentous stage of publication.  

Sincerely,

The Editors, Klaus Abels, University College London and Suzanne Flynn, MIT.

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