Publishing policies

Open access

Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft / Contributions to General and Comparative Linguistics is an open access journal. The publisher guarantees free and permanent online access to the content of every issue, with no embargo period and no technical barriers, including no requirement for users to register to read content.

Copyright and licensing

Articles are published under a Creative Commons International licence (CC BY-SA), a copy of which is available at:

This licence allows you to share and adapt the published content on the condition that you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.

Repositories and archiving

Authors can archive their articles as a preprint, postprint or as its final version published in the journal on the condition that the information that the text first appeared in Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft / Contributions to General and Comparative Linguistics is provided.

The journal is archived in both print and electronic format by the National Library of Poland.