Borja Herce

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 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 Calleja, Borja (2025). Stephen C. Levinson: A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan language of Rossel Island. Linguistic Typology, 29(1):221-229.
• 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 Calleja, Borja; Allassonnière-Tang, Marc (2024). The meaning of morphomes: distributional semantics of Spanish stem alternations. Linguistics Vanguard, 10(1):115-128.
• 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 Calleja, Borja; Torres, Catalina (2023). 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Herce, Borja (2021). Stem alternations in Kiranti and their implications for the morphology-phonology interface. Journal of Linguistics, 57(2):321-363.