Borja Herce

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• Herce, B. (2025). Emergence and evolution of free variation in Central Pame prefixes Diachronica, 43, 74–104. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.24033.her
• Herce, B. (2025). 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
• Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2025). Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness Diachronica, 42, 1–46. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23004.her
• Herce, B., & Pricop, B. (2025). 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
• Herce, B., & Pricop, B. (2024). VeLeCa: A verbal lexicon of Catalan with PCFP analysis Isogloss, 10, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.457
• Herce, B. (2024). VeLePa: Central Pame verbal inflection in a quantitative perspective Morphology, 34, 281–319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-024-09426-x
• Herce, B., & Cathcart, C. A. (2024). 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
• Herce, B., Saldana, C., Mansfield, J., & Bickel, B. (2023). Naturalness is gradient in morphological paradigms: Evidence from positional splits Glossa, 8, online. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9280
• Herce, B. (2023). 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
• Herce, B. (2023). The Typological Diversity of Morphomes: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Unnatural Morphology Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864598.001.0001
• Herce, B. (2022). 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
• Saldana, C., Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (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. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00062
• Herce, B. (2022). 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
• Herce, B. (2022). 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
• Herce, B. (2022). 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
• Cathcart, C., Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2022). 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
• Saldana Gascon, C., Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2022). 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
• Herce, B. (2021). Stem alternations in Kiranti and their implications for the morphology-phonology interface Journal of Linguistics, 57, 321–363. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226720000341