About
I am a morphologist, typologist and corpus linguist.
I got my PhD in linguistics in Leipzig and I am currently working as a computational typologist at the University of Freiburg.
My dissertation was on formalizing analogy in an HPSG/CxG framework, while providing a solid computational implementation for it.
In addition to quantitative morphology, I also work on HPSG and computational typology.
You can find my CV here.
You can write me at: mguzmann89 [at] g m a i l (.) c o m
Present projects
I am the principal investigator of the Emmy Noether project "Bayesian modeling of spatial typology" at the University of Freiburg.
My current project centers around building computational, Bayesian models of spatial phenomena, including: language contact, spatial difussion of linguistic varieties and dialectal variation.
Other research interests include: quantitative morphology, analogy and computational typology.
Software
- Analogy-based Morphology in TRALE
- Automatic morphological analysis: Paradigma
- Use Guile (scheme) to extend R: RcppGuile
- An emacs mode for inserting ipa symbols company-ipa
Publications
Dissertation
- Analogy in formal grammar [link]
Papers
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The half-way similarity avoidance rule replicated using phonetic data from European language varieties. Language Dynamics and Change, in press. [With Søren Wichmann, preprint]
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Socio-linguistic effects on conditional constructions: A quantitative typological study. Trends in Linguistics, forth. [With Laura Becker and Samira Ochs]
- A distributional assessment of rivalry in word formation. Word Structure, in press. [With Olivier Bonami] [Preprint]
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Estimating areal effects in typology: A case study of African phoneme inventories. Linguistic Typology, ahead of print. [With Miri Mertner]
- Distributional evidence for derivational paradigms. In: Sven Kotowski and Ingo Plag The semantics of derivational morphology: theory, methods, evidence. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. [With Olivier Bonami] [Preprint]
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Statistical bias control in typology. Link. Linguistic Typology vol. 26, num. 3, pp. 605-670. [With Laura Becker] [Preprint]
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Overabundance and inflectional classification: Quantitative evidence from Czech. 2021. Glossa vol 6, num. 1, 88. link, [With Olivier Bonami]
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Coding efficiency in nominal inflection: Expectedness and type frequency effects. 2021. Linguistic Vanguard vol. 7, num. s3. [With Laura Becker, link or email me for preprint]
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Multiple alignments of inflectional paradigms. 2021. In SCiL. link, video. [With Sacha Beniamine]
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Psych predicates in European languages. 2020. STUF - Language Typology and Universals. [With Laura Becker, link, email me for preprint]
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Analogy, complexity and predictability in the Russian nominal inflection system. 2020. Morphology 30, pages 219–262. [link, email me for pdf]
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Resolving unexpected case concord in German A-N-N compounds [With: Katja Barnickel]. 2017. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics [link] . The code and data can be found here [pdf].
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The se-ra alternation in Spanish subjunctive. 2017. In Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. [link] [pdf].
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La subjetivización del de que en el español de Colombia. 2013. Linguamatica 5.2 [link].
Books
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Analogical Classification in Formal Grammar. 2019. Langsci Press. link .
Book chapters
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Distributional evidence for derivational paradigms. 2023. In: Sven Kotowsky and Ingo Plag, Advances in formal Slavic linguistics. Linguistische Arbeiten, Volume 586. Berlin, De Gruyter. link .
[with ]
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Gender encoding on hybrid nouns in Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian: Experimental evidence from ellipsis. 2018.
In: Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2016. Langsci Press. link .
[with Zorica Puškar and Andrew Murphy]
Peer reviewed proceedings papers
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Analogy-based Morphology: The Kasem number system. 2019. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, September, 2019, University of Bucharest, Romania. Pages 26–41 [pdf].
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Quantitative Word Order Typology with UD. 2018. Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2018), December 13–14, 2018, Oslo University, Norway. Issue 155. Pages 91-104. [link] [pdf] [With Laura Becker].
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Quantitative Evidence, Collostructional Analysis and Lexical Approaches to Argument Structure. 2015. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT14). Warsaw. [link] [pdf].
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Naturalness bias in palatalization: An experimental study. 2015. Nordlyd 42. [with Joanna Zaleska] [link] [pdf].
Other proceedings papers
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Unifying everything: Integrating quantitative effects into formal models of grammar. 2015. Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics. Tübingen. [link] [pdf].
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Closing by repetition: A formal account of replicative mechanisms in closing sequences. 2016. In K.Barnickel, M.Guzmán N., J.Hein, S.Korsah, A.Murphy, L.Paschen, Z.Puškar and J.Zaleska (eds.). Replicative Processes in Grammar. Vol 93. of Linguistische Arbeitsberichte (LAB), Universität Leipzig. [pdf]
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The se-ra alternation in Spanish subjunctive. 2014. In A. Assmann, S. Bank, D. Georgi, T. Klein, P. Weisser and E. Zimmermann (eds.). Topics at InfL. Vol 92. of Linguistische Arbeitsberichte (LAB), Universität Leipzig. [pdf].
Invited Talks
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Analogical blocks in inflectional morphology. Berlin, 12/2019.
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Analogy-base Morphology: The Classical Nahuatl number system. Barcelona, 05/2019.
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Analogy in formal grammar. On the Kasem number system. Düsseldorf, 03/2017.
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Quantitative effects and formal models of grammar. Frankfurt, 06/2016.
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Quantitative effects and formal models of grammar. Paris Diderot, 02/2016.
Conference presentations
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*A typological view of analogy in morphology: some issues and possible solutions*. IMM. September 2022. [website], [slides].
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An analogical approach to the typology of inflectional complexity. IMM. September 2022. [website], [slides]. [With Olivier Bonami]
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Phoneme inventory size in Polynesian languages. SLE. August 2022. [website], [slides]. [With Laura Becker and Miriam Schiele]
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Typological richness of the German gender system revealed by data mining. ISMo. September 2021. [website], [abstract], [slides]. [With Sebastian Fedden and Greville Corbett]
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Areal, family, and sociolinguistic effects on conditional constructions. SLE. September 2021. [website], [abstract], [slides]. [With Laura Becker]
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Typology meets data-mining: the German gender system. SLE. September 2021. Plenary talk. [website], [abstract], [slides], [video]. [With Sebastian Fedden and Greville Corbett]
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Statistical bias control in typology. American International Morphology Meeting. August 2021. [website], [abstract], [slides]. [With Olivier Bonami]
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Statistical bias control in typology. Vielfaltslinguistik. June 2021. [website], [abstract]. [With Laura Becker]
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Comparing derivational processes with distributional semantics. Paradigmo. June 2021. [website]. [With Olivier Bonami]
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Distributional assessment of derivational semantics. SLE. Online. August 2020. [pdf]. [With Olivier Bonami]
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Inflection class and semantic analogies. International Morphology Meeting. Vienna, January 2020. [pdf].
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The role of morphology in gender assignment in French. ISMO. Paris, November 2019. [With Olivier Bonami and Delphine Tribout] [pdf].
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Word-order correlations revisited: gradient instead of canonical orders. 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Pavia, September 2019. [with Laura Becker]
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Analogy-based Morphology in HPSG: The Kasem number system. 26 International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Bucharest, July 2019.
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Quantitative word order typology with UD . Treebanks and Linguistic Theory. Oslo, December 2018. [with Laura Becker] [pdf].
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Word order correlations from a quantitative perspective . Grammar and Corpora. Paris, November 2018. [with Laura Becker] [pdf].
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Proportional analogies in typed systems . EW-HPSG. Frankfurt, June 2018 [pdf].
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Proportional analogies in typed systems . International Morphology Meeting. Budapest, May 2018. [pdf].
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Gender mismatches with NP ellipsis in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian . Resolving Conflicts Across Borders Conference / SinFonIJA 10. Dubrovnik, October 2017. [with Zorica Puškar and Andrew Murphy]
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Testing the Form-Frequency Hypothesis in case systems. SLE. Zürich, September 2017. [With Laura Becker] [pdf].
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Quantitative methods in African linguistics - Predicting plurals in Hausa. ACAL. April 2017. [With Laura Becker] [pdf].
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Coding Asymmetries, frequency and predictability: The case of to vs from. DGFS. Saarbrücken, March 2017. [With Laura Becker]
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The structure of hybrid nouns in Serbian: Evidence from mismatches under NP ellipsis. FDSL, December 2016. [With Zorica Puškar and Andrew Murphy]
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Overabundance as hybrid inflection. Quantitative evidence from Czech. Grammar and Corpora. IDS, Mannheim November 2016. [With Olivier Bonamie] [pdf].
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Psych predicates from a cross-linguistic perspective. Olinco. Olomouc - 11th June 2016. [With Laura Becker]
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Comparing Naive Discriminative Learning, Sublexicon Phonotactics, and Analogical Learning. Olinco. Olomouc - 11th June 2016.
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Clicks in interaction from a cross-linguistic perspective: A construction-based approach. Console XXIV. York - 8th January 2016. [with Ludger Paschen]
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Quantitative Evidence, Collostructional Analysis and Lexical Approaches to Argument Structure. Treebanks & Linguistic Theories 14 - 11-12th December 2015.
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Unifying everything: Integrating quantitative effects into formal models of grammar . European HPSG workshop - 16-17th November 2015.
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Unifying everything: Integrating quantitative effects into formal models of grammar . QITL 6 - 6 November 2015.
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Probing the naturalness bias in learning stress - A cross-linguistic study. ConSOLE XXIII; 01/2015. [With Joanna Zaleska]
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Naturalness bias in palatalization: an experimental study. Palatalization Conference, Tromso; 12/2014. [With Joanna Zaleska; Article]
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No need for rules in the -ez/-eza Spanish nominalization. PALC, Łódź, Poland; 11/2014.
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The -se/-ra alternation in Spanish imperfect subjunctive. CSDL 2014, Santa Barbara; 06/2014.
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Quantitative Analysis of the Unaccusative-Pronominal Alternation. Quantitative approaches in corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics: Word order and constituent order, Paris, France; 10/2013.
Teaching
- 2021-2022 - Introduction to linguistic fundamentals - Univeristy of Tübingen
- 2021-2022 - Areal typology and contact - Univeristy of Tübingen
- 2021 - Word and Paradigm Morphology - Univeristy of Tübingen
- 2021 - Advanced morphology - Université de Paris
- 2020 - Advanced morphology - Université de Paris
- 2018-2019 - Introduction to HPSG - Univeristy of Düsseldorf
- 2017 - Introduction to corpus linguistics and treebanking - Univeristy of Leipzig