Sacha Beniamine

Sacha Beniamine

Research Fellow

Surrey Morphology Group

About me

I study inflectional systems using computational methodologies.

My current project is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and models the task of morphological comprehension using neural models. I joined the Surrey Morphology Group in 2021 for a British Academy Newton International Fellowship. Before that, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the DLCE department of the Max Planck Institute (EVA/SHH), working on morphological and phonological changes in diachrony. During my PhD at Université Paris Cité (then “Université Paris Diderot”), I studied the typological variation of inflection classes (declensions or conjugations) using computational methods.

My research interests include computational approaches to linguistic theory, morphological typology, inflection, open data, lexicons.

Publications

(2024). Analogy in Inflection. In: Annual Review of Linguistics. Publication
(2023). Inflection Class Systems. In: Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulàlia Bonet, Antonio Fàbregas (eds.), Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology. Publication
(2022). Cognition and the stability of evolving complex morphology: an agent-based model. In: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Kanazawa, Japan. PDF Publication code video attachments

Talks

(2023). The other perspective on exponence Presentation at International Symposium of Morphology 2023, Nancy, Sep 15, 2023
(2023). The role of paradigm-external anchoring in simulating the emergence of inflection class systems Presentation at International Symposium of Morphology 2023, Nancy, Sep 14, 2023
(2023). Paralex: a DeAR standard for rich lexicons of inflected forms Presentation at International Symposium of Morphology 2023, Nancy, Sep 13, 2023

Software

Surrey Morphology Group Wordle

A wordle game for some languages studied at the Surrey Morphology Group: Archi and Nuer.
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Feature Viz

This script generates natural class lattices for phoneme inventories defined by distinctive features. It is useful to visualize the natural classes implied by distinctive features.
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Gitlab2Zenodo

Make your code and data citable with Zenodo and Gitlab !
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IPA Keyboard

A keyboard layout for Onboard Keyboard, allowing for easily typing International Phonetic Alphabet symbols in utf-8 on linux.
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Qumín

Qumín (Quantitative Modelling of Inflection) is a set of scripts written during my PhD to explore the structure of inflection class systems.
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