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
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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Publikationen
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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
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Possessive inflection in Chichimec inalienable nouns: The morphological organization of a closed irregular class Studies in Language, 46, 901–933. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.21020.her
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Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: emergence, typology, and motivations of a symbiotic relation Linguistics, 60, 1103–1147. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0042
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No lo he visto ‘masque’ yo? Emergence and properties of a negative polarity item in Peninsular Spanish Isogloss, 8, 1–23. https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/download/v8-n1-herce/148-pdf-en/1357
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A Naturalness Gradient Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Morphological Paradigms Cognitive Science Society. Annual Conference. Proceedings, 44, 787–794. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8wv9f99x#main
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Decoupling Speed of Change and Long-Term Preference in Language Evolution: Insights From Romance Verb Stem Alternations Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Kanazawa. https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3398549
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Stem alternations in Kiranti and their implications for the morphology-phonology interface Journal of Linguistics, 57, 321–363. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226720000341