Florian Schäfer

List of John Benjamins publications for which Florian Schäfer plays a role.

Book series

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA)

General Editor: Elly van Gelderen

ISSN 0166-0829

Titles

Non-Canonical Passives

Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 205] 2013. vi, 361 pp

Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax

Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 141] 2009. xv, 395 pp.

Subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives: External arguments in change-of-state contexts

Florian Schäfer

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 126] 2008. xi, 324 pp.

Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

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Schäfer, Florian and Margot Vivanco 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

Alexiadou, Artemis and Florian Schäfer 2013 Non-canonical passives Non-Canonical Passives, Alexiadou, Artemis and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article

Alexiadou, Artemis, Gianina Iordachioaia and Florian Schäfer 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

Alexiadou, Artemis, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer 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