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Borja Herce

Dr. Borja Herce

Postdoctoral Researcher

Distributional Linguistics Lab

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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V-Nr	Course	Start / End	Date	Lecturers	Room
0338	Anthropologische Linguistik 06VL272-018a	from 17.09.2025 to 17.12.2025	Mi 14:00-15:45	Borja Herce Calleja	BIN-1-D.22

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Publications

Herce, Borja (2025). Emergence and evolution of free variation in Central Pame prefixes Diachronica:Epub ahead of print.
Herce, Borja (2025). VeLeSpa: An inflected verbal lexicon of Peninsular Spanish and a quantitative analysis of paradigmatic predictability Language Resources and Evaluation, 59(2):1705-1718.
Herce, Borja; Bickel, Balthasar (2025). Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness Diachronica, 42(1):1-46.
Herce, Borja; Pricop, Bogdan (2025). VeLeRo: an inflected verbal lexicon of standard Romanian and a quantitative analysis of morphological predictability Language Resources and Evaluation, 59(1):621-637.
Herce, Borja; Pricop, Bogdan (2024). VeLeCa: A verbal lexicon of Catalan with PCFP analysis Isogloss, 10(1):1-17.
Herce, Borja (2024). VeLePa: Central Pame verbal inflection in a quantitative perspective Morphology, 34:281-319.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Herce, Borja (2021). Stem alternations in Kiranti and their implications for the morphology-phonology interface Journal of Linguistics, 57(2):321-363.