Borja Herce
Postdoc, SNF-Spark Projekt

Project: "The evolution of morphological predictability in Romance paradigms"
Romanisches Seminar
Zürichbergstrasse 8
CH - 8032 Zürich
Profile
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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Publications
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Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness. Diachronica, 42(1):1-46.
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VeLeRo: an inflected verbal lexicon of standard Romanian and a quantitative analysis of morphological predictability. Language Resources and Evaluation, 59(1):621-637.
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The meaning of morphomes: distributional semantics of Spanish stem alternations. Linguistics Vanguard, 10(1):115-128.
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VeLeCa: A verbal lexicon of Catalan with PCFP analysis. Isogloss, 10(1):1-17.
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Stephen C. Levinson: A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan language of Rossel Island. Linguistic Typology:Epub ahead of print.
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VeLePa: Central Pame verbal inflection in a quantitative perspective. Morphology, 34:281-319.
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Short vs long stem alternations in Romance verbal inflection: the S-morphome. Transactions of the Philological Society, 122(1):49-78.
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VeLeSpa: An inflected verbal lexicon of Peninsular Spanish and a quantitative analysis of paradigmatic predictability. Language Resources and Evaluation:Epub ahead of print.
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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.
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Naturalness is gradient in morphological paradigms: Evidence from positional splits. Glossa, 8(1):online.
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The Typological Diversity of Morphomes: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Unnatural Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations. Linguistics Vanguard, 8(1):53-68.
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Verbs and their dependents under the loupe – a corpus-based valency lexicon of Zurich German. 2022, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Possessive inflection in Chichimec inalienable nouns: The morphological organization of a closed irregular class. Studies in Language, 46(4):901-933.
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Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: emergence, typology, and motivations of a symbiotic relation. Linguistics, 60(4):1103-1147.
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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.
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A Naturalness Gradient Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Morphological Paradigms. Cognitive Science Society. Annual Conference. Proceedings, 44(4):787-794.