Borja Herce
Postdoktorand (Prof. Dr. Francesco Gardani)
UZH Postdoc Grant
Evolution Complexity
01.04.2025 - 31.03.2029
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution
01.04.2025 - 31.03.2027
Distributional Linguistics Lab
SNF Spark Projekt
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I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. My general research interests comprise morphology and diachrony, and the pressures that shape them. More concretely, I have been investigating the role of paradigmatic relations in inflectional morphology. I tend to draw on qualitative and quantitative data from languages all over the world to explore complex extra-morphologically unmotivated structures like morphomes and inflection classes.
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Publikationen
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Autonomy of Morphology: Paradigmatic Structure in Diachrony In E. Aldridge, A. Breitbarth, K. É. Kiss, J. Salmons, & A. Simonenko (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic and Historical Linguistics (pp. 275–292). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119898023.wbcdl090
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Emergence and evolution of free variation in Central Pame prefixes Diachronica, 43, 74–104. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.24033.her
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The Paradigm Cell Filling Problem (Oxford Biographies in Linguistics). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0327
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Morphomes (Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0328
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VeLeSpa: An inflected verbal lexicon of Peninsular Spanish and a quantitative analysis of paradigmatic predictability Language Resources and Evaluation, 59, 1705–1718. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-024-09776-2
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Stephen C. Levinson: A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan language of Rossel Island Linguistic Typology, 29, 221–229. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2024-0075
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Central Pame verbal inflection: Morphological classification across layers Studies in Language, 49, 412–455. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.24032.her
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Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness Diachronica, 42, 1–46. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23004.her
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VeLeRo: an inflected verbal lexicon of standard Romanian and a quantitative analysis of morphological predictability Language Resources and Evaluation, 59, 621–637. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-024-09721-3
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The meaning of morphomes: distributional semantics of Spanish stem alternations Linguistics Vanguard, 10, 115–128. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0010
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VeLeCa: A verbal lexicon of Catalan with PCFP analysis Isogloss, 10, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.457
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VeLePa: Central Pame verbal inflection in a quantitative perspective Morphology, 34, 281–319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-024-09426-x
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Short vs long stem alternations in Romance verbal inflection: the S-morphome Transactions of the Philological Society, 122, 49–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12271
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Measuring variation in Central Pame vowels Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2289–2293. https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/1101.pdf
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Naturalness is gradient in morphological paradigms: Evidence from positional splits Glossa, 8, online. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9280
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Morphological autonomy and the long-term vitality of morphomes: stem-final consonant loss in Romance verbs and paradigmatic analogy Morphology, 33, 153–187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-023-09406-7
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The Typological Diversity of Morphomes: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Unnatural Morphology Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864598.001.0001
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Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations Linguistics Vanguard, 8, 53–68. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0028
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Verbs and their dependents under the loupe – a corpus-based valency lexicon of Zurich German (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-232840
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More or Less Unnatural: Semantic Similarity Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Unnatural Syncretism in Morphological Paradigms Open Mind, 6, 183–210. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00062