Florian Schäfer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Florian Schäfer is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0166-0829
Titles
Non-Canonical Passives
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer
This volume contains a selection of papers dealing with constructions that have a passive-like interpretation but do not seem to share all the properties with canonical passives. The fifteen chapters of this volume raise important questions concerning the proper characterization of the universal… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 205] 2013. vi, 361 pp
Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 21st and 22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Stuttgart. The contributions provide insightful discussions of several topics of current interest for… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 141] 2009. xv, 395 pp.
The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives: External arguments in change-of-state contexts
Florian Schäfer
This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 126] 2008. xi, 324 pp.
2015 Reflexively marked anticausatives are not semantically reflexive Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013, Aboh, Enoch O., Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 203–220 | Article
We discuss the recent proposal by Koontz-Garboden (2009) (cf. also Chierchia 2004) that reflexively marked anticausative verbs (in Romance languages and beyond) are semantically reflexive. This proposal predicts that a sentence headed by a lexical causative verb should not entail the sentence… read more
2013 Non-canonical passives Non-Canonical Passives, Alexiadou, Artemis and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article
2011 Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic nominalizations The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change, Sleeman, Petra and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 25–40 | Article
We investigate the distribution of verbal and nominal layers in Romance and Germanic nominalizations. Specifically, we examine pairs of ‘verbal’ vs. ‘nominal’ nominalizations in two Romance (Spanish & Romanian) and two Germanic (English & German) languages. Our study proposes a large spectrum of… read more
2009 Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Alexiadou, Artemis, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. vii–xvi | Article