PUBLISHING AGREEMENT
All authors of an article published as part of a MITWPL volume must sign this agreement and forward it to thevolume editor. Authors of multiple articles published as part of one volume must sign one agreement per article.
The editor should collect all agreements and forward them to MITWPL.

This is a publication agreement and copyright license (“Agreement”) regarding a written
manuscript currently entitled…
Title of the Article: _______________________________________________________(“Article”)
to be published by “MIT Working Papers in Linguistics” (the “Journal”) as part of the collection…
Title of the Collection: _________________________________________________(“Collection”)
The parties to this Agreement are …
Name of the Author or Co-author: __________________________________________ (“Author”)
and the manager of “MIT Working Papers in Linguistics” (“Publisher”).
1. The Author has created and owns the copyright to the Article.
2. The Author represents and warrants that s/he has the full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to grant
the rights granted in this Agreement. The Author represents and warrants that the Article furnished to the Publisher has
not been published previously. For purposes of this paragraph, making a copy of the Article accessible over the Internet,
including, but not limited to, posting the Article to a database accessible over the Internet, does not constitute priorpublication so long as such copy indicates that the Article is not in final form, such as by designating such copy to be a“draft,” a “working paper,” or “work-in-progress”.
3. The Author and the Publisher agree that the Author may grant a Creative Commons copyright license in the Article tothe general public, in particular an Attribution- Noncommercial 3.0 License, which is incorporated herein by reference andis further specified at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode (human readable summary at
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reproduce, display, distribute, and use the Article in any form, either separately or as part of a collective work, including
but not limited to a nonexclusive license to publish the Article in the Journal, its electronic archive, its paper archive, or
any collection of the Journal’s works in any form whatsoever, copy and distribute individual reprints of the Article, andauthorize reproduction and distribution of the Article or an abstract thereof by means of computerized retrieval systems.
5. The Author retains ownership of all rights under copyright in the Article, and all rights not expressly granted in thisAgreement.
6. The Author agrees that s/he shall not publish the Article in any other journal or edited collection, whether electronic orotherwise, in substantially the same form as the Article, without acknowledging prior publication in the Journal with thesentence “This article has previously been published by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics in the volume “Collection” andcan be obtained at http://mitwpl.mit.edu/”
7. This Agreement shall become effective and binding at the date of formal acceptance of the Article for publication by theJournal.	  	  I HAVE READ AND AGREE FULLY WITH THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT.
AUTHOR
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