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Manuel Badal Bertolin is a faculty member in the Department of Catalan Philology at the Universitat de València, within the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication. He earned his PhD in 2021 with a thesis on the diachronic morphology of velarized Catalan verbs and is affiliated with the research group Vacàlic+ (Variation, linguistic change and use).
- Education: PhD in Catalan Philology, Universitat de València (2021)
His research focuses on historical and comparative linguistics, particularly the evolution of Catalan verbal morphology. He investigates processes such as velarization, analogical leveling, exaptation, and morphomic coherence, analyzing extensive diachronic corpora from the 13th to 19th centuries. His work often centers on the second conjugation verbs and the emergence of new verb subclasses marked by the velar /g/.
His recent publications (2020–2024) explore topics like the role of high-frequency verbs in blocking analogical change, the extension of the /g/ marker to participles and first-person forms, and the evolution of inchoative verbs and fifth-person morphology. These works appear in journals such as Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, Acta Linguistica Academica, and ELUA.
- Research Trends: His articles consistently apply theoretical frameworks like exaptation (Lass 1990) and natural morphology to explain morphological change in Catalan, emphasizing cognitive and systemic factors in language evolution.
Manuel Badal is actively contributing to the field of Romance historical linguistics and presents his findings at international conferences such as Going Romance.
- Email: manuel.badal@uv.es
