Borja Herce
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich (Distributional Linguistics Lab). 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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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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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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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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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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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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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