Florian Schäfer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3842832 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Florian Schäfer |
| NOMBRES | Florian |
| APELLIDO | Schäfer |
| FIRMA | SCHÄFER F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Stuttgart |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4738-8300 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Transitives with inchoative semantics
The paper investigates the semantics and event structure of change-of-state verbs that undergo the causative alternation – specifically, lexical causative verbs and their anti-causative counterparts. Following some of the previous literature, we challenge the traditional decomposition of lexical causatives into a cause event plus a become event. Instead, we argue on the basis of new arguments that both transitive and intransitive verbs of change-…
Anticausatives in transitive guise
This article discusses verbs of change that allow a formally transitive construal that, nevertheless, has anticausative semantics. Verbs forming such “transitive anticausatives” (e.g., The water raised its temperature ) also form canonical anticausatives (cf. The temperature of the water rose ). Such verbs differ from verbs that only form canonical anticausatives (cf. The water warmed ) in that they do not lexicalize a fixed scale along which the…
The lexical pragmatics of reflexive marking
In French, the members of a subclass of anticausative verbs are optionally marked with the clitic se , traditionally considered to be a reflexive marker. We show that this optionality is not a case of free variation. Rather, the presence or absence of se is influenced by lexical-pragmatic considerations: while by default, both variants are equally acceptable, in the context of a human subject, cooperative speakers strongly prefer the variant that…
Implicit control crosslinguistically
In Landau 2015, it is proposed that the acceptability of implicit control (i.e. control by the implicit external argument of a passivized verb into complement clauses) is not only restricted by the revised Visser's generalization (van Urk 2013), but also depends on the type of matrix predicate involved. While attitude matrix predicates allow implicit control (IMPLICIT LOGOPHORIC CONTROL), nonattitude matrix predicates do not. Landau takes this bi…
External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. The empirical focus is the causative/anticausative alternation and the formation of (adjectival) Passives. The bulk of the discussion, couched within Distributed Morphology, is devoted to the properties of the (anti-)causative alternation, which the text takes to be a Voice alternation. It offers a detailed discussion …
Middle Voice and reflexive interpretations
The argument structure of adjectival participles revisited
Non-Canonical Passives
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 properties of passivization and reflect the current discussion in this area, covering syntactic, semantic, psycho-linguistic and typological aspects of t…
Non-canonical Passives
On the (in-)dependency of (micro-)parameters
Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax
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 syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of contemporary and historical Germanic languages. The theoretical issues explored include:…
Advances in comparative Germanic syntax
The Causative Alternation
This article discusses the transitivity alternation between lexical causative verbs and their anticausative (inchoative) counterparts. It provides an overview of the semantic, syntactic and morphological properties of verbs undergoing the causative alternation, thereby identifying their cross-linguistically stable core as well as the areas of variation among languages. The main theoretical lines of analysis proposed in the literature are introduc…
The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives
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 canonical external arguments of causative verbs as well as of oblique causers and causative PPs in the context of anticausative verbs in different lang…
The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically
The causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a verb V means roughly "cause to Vintransitive" (see Levin 1993). The discussion revolves around two issues: the first one concerns the similarities and differences between the anticausative and the p…
Respiration-Related Artifacts in EDA Recordings
When electrodermal activity (EDA) recordings are controlled for artifacts, i.e., electrodermal reactions [EDRs] elicited by breathing irregularities, several problems arise. For example, respiration is difficult to evaluate because there are no clear-cut criteria for its values, e.g., wave form, depth. Furthermore, respiration and EDA are rather complexly intertwined, and there is no established or standardized method for evaluation. Especially w…
The argument structure of adjectival participles revisited
Middle Voice and reflexive interpretations
The Causative Alternation
This article discusses the transitivity alternation between lexical causative verbs and their anticausative (inchoative) counterparts. It provides an overview of the semantic, syntactic and morphological properties of verbs undergoing the causative alternation, thereby identifying their cross-linguistically stable core as well as the areas of variation among languages. The main theoretical lines of analysis proposed in the literature are introduc…
Implicit control crosslinguistically
In Landau 2015, it is proposed that the acceptability of implicit control (i.e. control by the implicit external argument of a passivized verb into complement clauses) is not only restricted by the revised Visser's generalization (van Urk 2013), but also depends on the type of matrix predicate involved. While attitude matrix predicates allow implicit control (IMPLICIT LOGOPHORIC CONTROL), nonattitude matrix predicates do not. Landau takes this bi…
Respiration-Related Artifacts in EDA Recordings
When electrodermal activity (EDA) recordings are controlled for artifacts, i.e., electrodermal reactions [EDRs] elicited by breathing irregularities, several problems arise. For example, respiration is difficult to evaluate because there are no clear-cut criteria for its values, e.g., wave form, depth. Furthermore, respiration and EDA are rather complexly intertwined, and there is no established or standardized method for evaluation. Especially w…
The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically
The causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a verb V means roughly "cause to Vintransitive" (see Levin 1993). The discussion revolves around two issues: the first one concerns the similarities and differences between the anticausative and the p…
The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives
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 canonical external arguments of causative verbs as well as of oblique causers and causative PPs in the context of anticausative verbs in different lang…
Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax
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 syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of contemporary and historical Germanic languages. The theoretical issues explored include:…
Advances in comparative Germanic syntax
The Causative Alternation
This article discusses the transitivity alternation between lexical causative verbs and their anticausative (inchoative) counterparts. It provides an overview of the semantic, syntactic and morphological properties of verbs undergoing the causative alternation, thereby identifying their cross-linguistically stable core as well as the areas of variation among languages. The main theoretical lines of analysis proposed in the literature are introduc…
On the (in-)dependency of (micro-)parameters
Non-Canonical Passives
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 properties of passivization and reflect the current discussion in this area, covering syntactic, semantic, psycho-linguistic and typological aspects of t…
Non-canonical Passives
The argument structure of adjectival participles revisited
External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. The empirical focus is the causative/anticausative alternation and the formation of (adjectival) Passives. The bulk of the discussion, couched within Distributed Morphology, is devoted to the properties of the (anti-)causative alternation, which the text takes to be a Voice alternation. It offers a detailed discussion …
Middle Voice and reflexive interpretations
Implicit control crosslinguistically
In Landau 2015, it is proposed that the acceptability of implicit control (i.e. control by the implicit external argument of a passivized verb into complement clauses) is not only restricted by the revised Visser's generalization (van Urk 2013), but also depends on the type of matrix predicate involved. While attitude matrix predicates allow implicit control (IMPLICIT LOGOPHORIC CONTROL), nonattitude matrix predicates do not. Landau takes this bi…
Transitives with inchoative semantics
The paper investigates the semantics and event structure of change-of-state verbs that undergo the causative alternation – specifically, lexical causative verbs and their anti-causative counterparts. Following some of the previous literature, we challenge the traditional decomposition of lexical causatives into a cause event plus a become event. Instead, we argue on the basis of new arguments that both transitive and intransitive verbs of change-…
Anticausatives in transitive guise
This article discusses verbs of change that allow a formally transitive construal that, nevertheless, has anticausative semantics. Verbs forming such “transitive anticausatives” (e.g., The water raised its temperature ) also form canonical anticausatives (cf. The temperature of the water rose ). Such verbs differ from verbs that only form canonical anticausatives (cf. The water warmed ) in that they do not lexicalize a fixed scale along which the…
The lexical pragmatics of reflexive marking
In French, the members of a subclass of anticausative verbs are optionally marked with the clitic se , traditionally considered to be a reflexive marker. We show that this optionality is not a case of free variation. Rather, the presence or absence of se is influenced by lexical-pragmatic considerations: while by default, both variants are equally acceptable, in the context of a human subject, cooperative speakers strongly prefer the variant that…
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