Selina Heidinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 281262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Selina Heidinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Selina |
| FAMILY NAME | Heidinger |
| SIGNATURE | HEIDINGER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Graz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2196-0743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Semantic roles and the causative-anticausative alternation: Evidence from French change-of-state verbs
Change-of-state verbs are heterogeneous with respect to their occurrence in the causative-anticausative alternation. While some of them are never used as anticausatives (e.g., destroy ), others seem to largely favor the anticausative form (e.g., wither ). On the basis of corpus data and statistical analysis for French change-of-state verbs, we show that there is a relationship between the anticausative use of a verb and the semantic role of its t…
The focus prominence rule in Spanish from a perception perspective
The focus prominence rule (FPR) predicts that speakers articulate their utterances in such a way that the nuclear stress falls within the focus domain (¿Qué compró Juan? ‘What did John buy?’ → Juan compró [una bicicleta]F ‘John bought [a BIKE]F’ / #Juan compró [una bicicleta]F ‘John bought [a bike]F’). To examine the consequences of the FPR for focus interpretation, we carried out a perception experiment using oral production data produced by Arg…
Corpus Data and the Position of Information Focus in Spanish
The syntactic position of information foci is the most vividly discussed issue in recent literature on focus in Spanish. An interesting aspect of this discussion is that the diverging views typically correlate with diverging methods: Authors who rely on their intuitions as native speakers typically assume that information foci are limited to the final position, while authors using experimental methods typically argue (based on their experimental …
Focus affinity in Spanish. An experimental study
The notion focus affinity refers to the likelihood that a grammatical role (e.g., subject, object) is the narrow focus of a sentence. There is evidence that such differences exist at the level of distributional data. For example, subjects are less often focal and more often topical as compared to direct objects. However, it is not obvious whether focus affinity is genuinely related to grammatical roles. Focus affinity could be an epiphenomenon of…
Anthropology Now: Covid-19': Thoughts on Learning and Teaching about a Global Pandemic during a Global Pandemic
Reflexive and unmarked anticausatives in French and Spanish: Frequency of transitive use and undergoer overlap
En français comme en espagnol, les verbes anticausatifs apparaissent sous deux formes distinctes : avec ou sans le clitique se . Nous prenons comme point de départ l'hypothèse suivante : se est un opérateur de valence qui réduit la valence verbale par l'élimination de l'argument actor d'une entrée lexicale à deux arguments. Nous évaluons deux prédictions qui découlent de cette hypothèse : (i) les verbes qui forment l'anticausatif avec se s'emploi…
The information status and discourse anchorage of non-nominal constituents: A case study on Spanish secondary predicates
Causalness and the encoding of the causative–anticausative alternation in French and Spanish
In French and Spanish, both parts of the causative–anticausative alternation can be formally encoded in two ways: Depending on the form of the verb, marked and unmarked causatives and marked and unmarked anticausatives can be distinguished. The goal of this paper is to verify whether causalness is a factor in the encoding and whether the two languages differ in this respect (verbs used more often as causatives than as anticausatives have a high d…
Optionality and preferences in Spanish postverbal constituent order: An OT account without basic constituent order
The persistence of labile verbs in the French causative-anticausative alternation
This paper describes the diachronic development of labile verbs in the French causative-anticausative alternation. The aim is to show that the development is best described with the notion of persistence (defined as “endurance under competition”). In the first part of the paper I will show that French labile verbs indeed had (and still have) a serious competitor, viz. the reflexively marked anticausative. While mostly labile verbs were used to en…
Causalness and the encoding of the causative–anticausative alternation in French and Spanish
In French and Spanish, both parts of the causative–anticausative alternation can be formally encoded in two ways: Depending on the form of the verb, marked and unmarked causatives and marked and unmarked anticausatives can be distinguished. The goal of this paper is to verify whether causalness is a factor in the encoding and whether the two languages differ in this respect (verbs used more often as causatives than as anticausatives have a high d…
Reflexive and unmarked anticausatives in French and Spanish: Frequency of transitive use and undergoer overlap
En français comme en espagnol, les verbes anticausatifs apparaissent sous deux formes distinctes : avec ou sans le clitique se . Nous prenons comme point de départ l'hypothèse suivante : se est un opérateur de valence qui réduit la valence verbale par l'élimination de l'argument actor d'une entrée lexicale à deux arguments. Nous évaluons deux prédictions qui découlent de cette hypothèse : (i) les verbes qui forment l'anticausatif avec se s'emploi…
Optionality and preferences in Spanish postverbal constituent order: An OT account without basic constituent order
The persistence of labile verbs in the French causative-anticausative alternation
This paper describes the diachronic development of labile verbs in the French causative-anticausative alternation. The aim is to show that the development is best described with the notion of persistence (defined as “endurance under competition”). In the first part of the paper I will show that French labile verbs indeed had (and still have) a serious competitor, viz. the reflexively marked anticausative. While mostly labile verbs were used to en…
The information status and discourse anchorage of non-nominal constituents: A case study on Spanish secondary predicates
Causalness and the encoding of the causative–anticausative alternation in French and Spanish
In French and Spanish, both parts of the causative–anticausative alternation can be formally encoded in two ways: Depending on the form of the verb, marked and unmarked causatives and marked and unmarked anticausatives can be distinguished. The goal of this paper is to verify whether causalness is a factor in the encoding and whether the two languages differ in this respect (verbs used more often as causatives than as anticausatives have a high d…
Optionality and preferences in Spanish postverbal constituent order: An OT account without basic constituent order
Reflexive and unmarked anticausatives in French and Spanish: Frequency of transitive use and undergoer overlap
En français comme en espagnol, les verbes anticausatifs apparaissent sous deux formes distinctes : avec ou sans le clitique se . Nous prenons comme point de départ l'hypothèse suivante : se est un opérateur de valence qui réduit la valence verbale par l'élimination de l'argument actor d'une entrée lexicale à deux arguments. Nous évaluons deux prédictions qui découlent de cette hypothèse : (i) les verbes qui forment l'anticausatif avec se s'emploi…
Focus affinity in Spanish. An experimental study
The notion focus affinity refers to the likelihood that a grammatical role (e.g., subject, object) is the narrow focus of a sentence. There is evidence that such differences exist at the level of distributional data. For example, subjects are less often focal and more often topical as compared to direct objects. However, it is not obvious whether focus affinity is genuinely related to grammatical roles. Focus affinity could be an epiphenomenon of…
Anthropology Now: Covid-19': Thoughts on Learning and Teaching about a Global Pandemic during a Global Pandemic
The focus prominence rule in Spanish from a perception perspective
The focus prominence rule (FPR) predicts that speakers articulate their utterances in such a way that the nuclear stress falls within the focus domain (¿Qué compró Juan? ‘What did John buy?’ → Juan compró [una bicicleta]F ‘John bought [a BIKE]F’ / #Juan compró [una bicicleta]F ‘John bought [a bike]F’). To examine the consequences of the FPR for focus interpretation, we carried out a perception experiment using oral production data produced by Arg…
Corpus Data and the Position of Information Focus in Spanish
The syntactic position of information foci is the most vividly discussed issue in recent literature on focus in Spanish. An interesting aspect of this discussion is that the diverging views typically correlate with diverging methods: Authors who rely on their intuitions as native speakers typically assume that information foci are limited to the final position, while authors using experimental methods typically argue (based on their experimental …
Semantic roles and the causative-anticausative alternation: Evidence from French change-of-state verbs
Change-of-state verbs are heterogeneous with respect to their occurrence in the causative-anticausative alternation. While some of them are never used as anticausatives (e.g., destroy ), others seem to largely favor the anticausative form (e.g., wither ). On the basis of corpus data and statistical analysis for French change-of-state verbs, we show that there is a relationship between the anticausative use of a verb and the semantic role of its t…
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