Borja Herce

Postdoc, SNF-Spark Projekt

Project: "The evolution of morphological predictability in Romance paradigms"

Romanisches Seminar
Zürichbergstrasse 8
CH - 8032 Zürich

borja.hercecalleja@uzh.ch

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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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Herce, Borja; Pricop, Bogdan (2024). VeLeRo: an inflected verbal lexicon of standard Romanian and a quantitative analysis of morphological predictability. Language Resources and Evaluation:Epub ahead of print.
Herce Calleja, Borja; Allassonnière-Tang, Marc (2024). The meaning of morphomes: distributional semantics of Spanish stem alternations. Linguistics Vanguard:Epub ahead of print.
Herce, Borja; Cathcart, Chundra A (2024). Short vs long stem alternations in Romance verbal inflection: the S-morphome. Transactions of the Philological Society, 122(1):49-78.
Herce Calleja, Borja; Torres, Catalina (2023). Measuring variation in Central Pame vowels. In: 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prag, 7 August 2023 - 11 August 2023. International Phonetic Association, 2289-2293.
Herce, Borja; Saldana, Carmen; Mansfield, John; Bickel, Balthasar (2023). Naturalness is gradient in morphological paradigms: Evidence from positional splits. Glossa, 8(1):online.
Herce, Borja (2023). Morphological autonomy and the long-term vitality of morphomes: stem-final consonant loss in Romance verbs and paradigmatic analogy. Morphology, 33(2):153-187.
Herce, Borja (2023). The Typological Diversity of Morphomes: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Unnatural Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Herce, Borja (2022). Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations. Linguistics Vanguard, 8(1):53-68.
Weingartner, Paul G. Verbs and their dependents under the loupe – a corpus-based valency lexicon of Zurich German. 2022, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
Saldana, Carmen; Herce, Borja; Bickel, Balthasar (2022). More or Less Unnatural: Semantic Similarity Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Unnatural Syncretism in Morphological Paradigms. Open Mind, 6:183-210.
Herce, Borja (2022). Possessive inflection in Chichimec inalienable nouns: The morphological organization of a closed irregular class. Studies in Language, 46(4):901-933.
Herce, Borja (2022). Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: emergence, typology, and motivations of a symbiotic relation. Linguistics, 60(4):1103-1147.
Herce, Borja (2022). No lo he visto ‘masque’ yo? Emergence and properties of a negative polarity item in Peninsular Spanish. Isogloss, 8(1/2):1-23.
Cathcart, Chundra; Herce, Borja; Bickel, Balthasar (2022). Decoupling Speed of Change and Long-Term Preference in Language Evolution: Insights From Romance Verb Stem Alternations. In: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Kanazawa, Japan, 5 September 2022 - 8 September 2022, JCoLE.
Saldana Gascon, Carmen; Herce, Borja; Bickel, Balthasar (2022). A Naturalness Gradient Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Morphological Paradigms. Cognitive Science Society. Annual Conference. Proceedings, 44(4):787-794.
Herce, Borja (2021). Stem alternations in Kiranti and their implications for the morphology-phonology interface. Journal of Linguistics, 57(2):321-363.