Mercè Lorente Casafont

Mercè Lorente Casafont

PhD of Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona (1994). Associate professor of terminology and linguistics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Head of IULATERM research group (Lexicon and Technology) since 2014. She is a member of the Institute of Catalan Studies since 2016 and secretary of the Philological Section (Academy of Catalan language) since 2022. Chief editor of Terminàlia journal. She was the director of the Institute of Applied Linguistics (IULA) from 2006 to 2013; and again since 2017. She has participated in more than 30 research projects. From 2000, she has led 8 of these research projects. She has supervised 12 PhD theses and is currently supervising 3 more. Author of more than 150 publications, she has edited and coordinated a dozen monographs, has participated in several dictionaries and regularly collaborates in various journals.

Some recent publications

  • Estopà, Rosa; Lorente, Mercè (ed.) (2022). La terminología, espejo de la evolución del conocimiento científico: El caso de la reproducción asistida. Barcelona: Institut de Lingüística Aplicada de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Documenta Universitària, Sèrie Monografies 15, 210 pp., ISBN 978-84-9984-623-1
  • Lorente, Mercè (2022). La vitalidad de las lenguas y el cambio léxico. Bernal, Elisenda; Freixa, Judit; Torner, Sergi (eds.). La neología del español: del uso al diccionario. Frankfurt: Iberoamericana Vervuert, Lingüística Iberoamericana, 87, p. 35-50. ISBN: 978-84-9192-268-1.
  • Cabré, Teresa; Lorente, Mercè (2021). Panorama teòric de la terminologia actual. Terminàlia, 24 (desembre 2021), pp. 57-63 ISSN: 2013-6692 (impresa); 2013-6706 (electrònica). DOI: 10.2436/20.2503.01.168
    Accés: http://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/Terminalia/article/view/149368/pdf_1814
  • Lorente Casafont, Mercè (2021). “L’alternança acusatiu/datiu des de la perspectiva lexicogràfica”. Estudis Romànics, 43 (2021). [pp. 7-33] ISSN (format paper): 0211-8572; ISSN (format digital): 2013-9500. DOI:10.2436/20.2500.01.308
    Accés: https://publicacions.iec.cat/repository/pdf/00000298/00000033.pdf
  • Bernal, Elisenda; Lorente, Mercè (2020). Derivational networks in Catalan. Körtvélyessy, Lívia; Bagasheva, Alexandra; Štekauer, Pavol (eds.). Derivational Networks Across Languages. De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN: 978-3-11-068649-4.
    https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110686630, 217-228.
  • Lorente, Mercè (2019). “Sobre l’alternança acusatiu-datiu de verbs psicològics.” Estudis Romànics, 41 (2019). [pp. 363-371] ISSN (format paper): 0211-8572; ISSN (format digital): 2013-9500. DOI: 10.2436/20.2500.01.272
    Accés: https://publicacions.iec.cat/repository/pdf/00000269/00000071.pdf e-repositori UPF: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44143