Florian Schäfer | Institut für Linguistik:Anglistik

in prep. - with A. Alexiadou & H. Borer (eds.). The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax. Oxford University Press.
in prep. - with A. Alexiadou (eds.). Non-canonical Passives. John Benjamins.
in prep. - with A. Alexiadou & E. Anagnostopoulou. External arguments in transitivity alternations: a layering approach. Oxford University Press.
under review - with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin. The syntax of external arguments in derived nominals. Submitted to a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
to appear - with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin. Direct participation effects in derived nominals. In Proceedings of CSL 48.
to appear - with A. Alexiadou. Non-canonical passives. Introduction to 'Non-canonical passives', A. Alexiadou & F. Schäfer (eds.), Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
to appear - with F. Martin. The modality of 'offer' and other prospective verbs. Proceedings of WCCFL 30, eds. N. Arnett & R. Bennett, Cascadilla Press.
under review - 'Direct participation' and 'agent exclusivity' effects in derived nominals and beyond. (with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordăchioaia, F. Martin). In Categorization and Category Change in Morphology, G. Iordachioaia, I. Roy, K. Takamine (eds.), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
to appear - The passive of reflexive verbs and its implications for theories of binding and case. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
to appear - with Fabienne Martin. On the argument structure of verbs with bi- and mono-eventive uses. Proceedings of NELS 42, S. Keine & S. Sloggett (eds.). Amherst, MA: GLSA.
to appear - On Passives of Reflexive Verbs and the Nature of (Natural) Reflexivity. Proceedings of NELS 41. Y. Fainleib, N. LaCara & Y. Park (eds.). Amherst, MA: GLSA.
to appear - Passives of Reflexive Verbs: The Repair of a Principle A Violation. In Repairs: The added value of being wrong. P. Brandt & E. Fuss (eds.), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
to appear - Local Case, Cyclic Agree and the Syntax of truly Ergative Verbs. In Local Modelling of Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax, A. Alexiadou, T. Kiss & G. Müller (eds.), Linguistische Arbeiten, Niemeyer.
2012 - Two types of external argument licensing - the case of causers. Studia Linguistica 66(2), 128-180.
2012 - with Artemis Alexiadou. There-insertion and the unaccusativity hypothesis. In Universals and Variation - Proceedings of Glow-in-Asia VIII, ed. Gao Ming-le. Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 76-79.
2012 - Naturally atomic er-nominalizations. Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes 40, 149-174.
2011 - with Artemis Alexiadou. An unaccusativity diagnostic at the Syntax-Semantics interface: there-insertion, indefinites and restitutive again. In I. Reich et al. (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 15, Saarland University Press.
2011 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Gianina Iordachioaia. Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic Nominalizations. Sleeman, P. & H. Perridon (eds.), The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic. Structure, variation and change, 25-40. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2011 - with Artemis Alexiadou. There-insertion: an unaccusativity mismatch at the syntax-semantics interface. Online Proceedings of WCCFL XXVIII.
2010 - with Artemis Alexiadou. On the syntax of episodical vs. dispositional -er nominals. In A. Alexiadou & M. Rathert (eds.), Nominalizations across languages and frameworks, 9-38. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2010 - On the (in-)dependency of (micro-)parameters. Theoretical Linguistics, 36,1 (77-83).
2009 - The Oblique Causer Construction across Languages. In Proceedings of NELS 38, A. Schardl, M. Walkow & M. Abdurrahman (eds.), 297-308. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2009 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. PP Licensing in Nominalizations. In Proceedings of NELS 38, A. Schardl, M. Walkow & M. Abdurrahman (eds.), 39-52. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2009 - (with Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden & Justin Nuger) Editor of Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax (Proceedings of CGSW 21+22). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2009 - (with Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden & Justin Nuger) Introduction: Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax. In Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax, vii - xv. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2009 - The Causative Alternation. In Language and Linguistics Compass, Vol. 3.2, 641-681. (prefinal version)
2008 - with Artemis Alexiadou. Instrumental -er Nominals Revisited. In K. Ryan (ed.), Online-Proceedings of WCCFL XXVII (Poster Session), 10-19. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics.
2008 - with Steffen Heidinger. On the French reflexive passive and anticausative. A diachronic view from the par-phrase. In B. Fagard, S. Prevost, B. Combettes & O. Bertrand (eds.), Etudes de linguistique diachronique, 135 - 152. Bern: Peter Lang.
2008 - The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives. External arguments in change-of-state contexts. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2008 - Event Denoting -er Nominalizations in German. In F. Schäfer (ed.), SinSpeC (01), Working Papers of the SFB 732, 173-187. University of Stuttgart.
2008 - Editor of SinSpeC (01), Volume 1 of the Working Papers of the SFB 732 'Incremental Specification in Context'.
2008 - Middles as Voiced Anticausatives. In E. Efner and M. Walkow (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 37, 183 - 196. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2007 - On the nature of anticausative morphology: External arguments in change-of-state contexts. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Stuttgart.
2007 - By itself, ms., Universität Stuttgart.
2006 - with Artemis Alexiadou. Instrument Subjects Are Agents or Causers. In D. Baumer, D. Montero, and M. Scanlon (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 40-48. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1431.
2006 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. The fine structure of (anti-)causatives. In C. Davis, A.-R. Deal and Y. Zabbal (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 36, 115-128. UMASS, Amherst.
2006 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically. In M. Frascarelli (ed.), Phases of Interpretation. Berlin: Mouton, 187-211.
2003 - Relativierte Bindungsminimalität in OT: einfache vs. serielle Optimierung. In L. Gunkel, G. Müller and G. Zifonun (eds.), Arbeiten zur Reflexivierung. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
2002 - Aspekte einer wettbewerbsgetriebenen Bindungstheorie. Unpublished Diplom-Thesis, University of Potsdam.

upcoming - The argument structure of reflexively marked anticausatives and middles: evidence from datives (joint work with M. Pitteroff. Poster at NELS 43, City University, New York.
2012 - On the realization of external arguments in nominalizations. a cross-linguistic perspective (joint work with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin). Talk at Socieatas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm.
2012 - Adjectival participles revisited (joint work with A. Alexiadou and B. Gehrke). Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles, London.
2012 - External arguments in derived nominals (joint work with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin). Talk at the Debrecen workshop on argument structure, University of Debrecen.
2012 - The syntax of external arguments in derived nominals (joint work with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin). Talk at CGSW 27, Yale University.
2012 - On defeasible causatives. (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at the semantics and pragmatics workshop, Stanford University.
2012 - The modality of 'offer' and other prospective verbs (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at workshop 'Modality@OttawaU', University of Ottawa.
2012 - Direct participation effects in derived nominal (joint work with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin). Talk at CLS 48, University of Chicago.
2012 - The modality of 'offer' and other prospective verbs (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at WCCFL 30, UC Santa Cruz.
2012 - Naturally reflexive verbs revisited. (joint work with A. Alexiadou). Talk at the GLOW 35 workshop on 'Empty categories in Syntax', Universität Potsdam.
2011 - Agents, causers and event complexity in nominalizations (joint work with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin), Talk at the workshop on 'Caregorization and category change in morphology', CASTL, Tromsoe.
2011 - On the argument structure of verbs with "bi- and mono-eventive" uses (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Poster presentation at NELS 42, University of Toronto.
2011 - On the argument structure of (non-)prospective causatives (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at the 'Grammar Seminar', Lunds Universitet.
2011 - Elastic verbs with bi- and mono-eventive uses: (non-)prospective causatives (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at the workshop 'Verbal Elasticity', Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
2011 - On (non-)prospective causatives (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at the workshop 'Aspect and Modality in Lexical Semantics', Universität Stuttgart.
2011 - On the argument structure of (non-)prospective causatives (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at the workshop 'Encoding the Argument', CNRS/Paris 8.
2011 - Passives of Reflexive Verbs. Talk at CGSW 26, University of Amsterdam.
2011 - Passives of Reflexives and the Typology of Reflexive Verb Classes. Talk at the workshop 'Approaches to the Lexicon' (Root III), Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2011 - Syntactic encoding of Conceptual Information: Optional Se-constructions in Romance (joint work with Cinzia Campanini). Talk at the 34th GLOW Colloquium, University of Vienna.
2011 - Optional Se-constructions in Romance: Syntactic encoding of Conceptual Information (joint work with Cinzia Campanini). Talk at the 21st Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Universidad de Sevilla & Universidad Pablo de Olavide.
2011 - Optional Se-constructions in Romance: Syntactic encoding of Conceptual Information (joint work with Cinzia Campanini). Talk at the 35th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
2011 - Non-Canonical Passives: Introduction (with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at the AG 9 - Non-Canonical Passives, 33. Jahrestagung der DGFS, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.
2010 - Optional SI/SE-constructions in Romance: a low applicative analysis (joint work with Cinzia Campanini). Talk at Going Romance 24, Universiteit Leiden.
2010 - On the Nature of (Natural) Reflexivity: The Case of Passives of Reflexive Verbs. Talk at the workshop on 'Verb Meaning, Event Semantics and Argument Structure', Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Barcelona.
2010 - An Unaccusativity diagnostic at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: there-insertion, indefinites and restitutive again (joint work with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at the workshop 'On Linguistic Interfaces', University of Ulster.
2010 - On Passives of Reflexive Verbs and the Nature of (Natural) Reflexivity. Talk at Nels 41, University of Pennsylvania.
2010 - On passives of Reflexive Verbs and Theories of Reflexivization. Talk at the workshop on 'Peculiar Binding Configurations', University of Stuttgart.
2010 - Unaccusatives at the Syn-Sem Interface: there insertion, indefinites and restitutive 'again' (joint work with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at 'Sinn und Bedeutung 15', Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
2010 - There-insertion and the unaccusativity hypothesis (joint work with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at Glow-in-Asia VIII, Beijing Language and Culture University.
2010 - Das Passiv reflexiver Verben: an den Schnittstellen zwischen Syntax, PF und konzeptuellem System. Invited talk, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2010 - Passives of Reflexive Verbs, Impersonal Passives and Default Agreement. Talk at the Workshop 'Morphological Voice and its Grammatical Interfaces: Theoretical Modelling and Psycholinguistic Validation', University of Vienna.
2010 - Naturally atomic er-nominalizations. Workshop on Nominalizations (Troisièmes Journées d’Etudes sur la Nominalisation), CNRS/Paris 8.
2010 - On passives of reflexive verbs. Talk at the workshop 'Variation and Change in Argument Realization', University of Naples.
2010 - Zum Passiv reflexiver Verben und den Theorien der Reflexivierung. Talk at the GGS 2010, Freie Universität Berlin.
2010 - with Artemis Alexiadou. There-insertion: an unaccusativity mismatch at the syntax-semantics interface. Poster presentation at WCCFL 28, USC.
2010 - The Passive of Reflexive Verbs. Talk at the Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln, Universität Köln.
2009 - There-insertion and unaccusativtiy (joint work with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at the 37. Österreichische Linguistiktagung (Syntax-Workshop), Universität Salzburg.
2009 - Unaccusatives and 'there'-insertion (joint work with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at the Aspect seminar, Lunds Universitet.
2009 - The Passive of Reflexive Verbs. Talk at the Grimm seminar, Lunds Universitet.
2009 - with Artemis Alexiadou. 'There' down in Spec,vP: an argument. Talk at the GGS, Universität Leipzig.
2009 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Gianina Iordachioaia. Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic Nominalzations. Talk at the Congres Variation and change, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
2008 - Event-denoting er-nominalizations. Talk at the Workshop 'Theory of Grammar' at the 36. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Universität Wien.
2008 - CAUSE(r) out of the lexicon. Talk at the Wokshop 'Perspektiven der minimalistischen Syntax', Universität Leipzig.
2008 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. The Syntax of CAUSE(rs). Talk at the Mini-Workshop on Causality, IMS Stuttgart.
2008 - with Artemis Alexiadou. Instrumental -er nominals revisited. Poster presentation at WCCFL 27, UCLA.
2008 - Der Kasus im Zustandswechsel: ein applikativer Kopf für das Deutsche. Talk at the GGS, ZAS, Berlin.
2008 - Two types of external argument licensing: The case of causers. Talk at the 31st GLOW Colloquium, University of Newcastle.
2008 - Local case and cyclic agree. Talk at the 'Jahrestagung der DGFS' (AG7: Local modelling of non-local dependencies in syntax), Universität Bamberg.
2008 - Oblique causers in change-of-state contexts. Talk at the NORMS Workshop on Argument Structure, Lund University.
2007 - with Artemis Alexiadou. Decomposing -er nominalizations. Talk at the workshop "Nominalizations Across Languages", University of Stuttgart.
2007 - The Oblique-Causer Construction across Languages. Alternate at NELS 38, University of Ottawa.
2007 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. PP Licensing in Nominalizations. Talk at NELS 38, University of Ottawa.
2007 - The oblique-causer construction. Talk at the Mini-Case-Workshop, University of Stuttgart.
2007 - with Artemis Alexiadou. On the Realization of External Arguments in Nominalizations. Talk at the GGS, University of Konstanz.
2007 - External Argument "Reduction" within a Configurational Theta Theory. Talk at the 30th GLOW Colloquium, University of Tromsø.
2007 - Motivating the Derivation of non-thematic 'sich'. Workshop on "(Lexical) Decomposition", University of Stuttgart.
2006 - (Gradual) External Argument Reduction (within a Configurational Theta-Theory). Talk at the Syntax-Workshop at the 34. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, University of Klagenfurt.
2006 - with Artemis Alexiadou. External argument realization in nominalization. SFB 732 Opening Colloquium, University of Stuttgart.
2006 - Middles as Voiced Anticausatives. Talk at NELS 37, UIUC, Urbana-Champaign.
2006 - with Steffen Heidinger. On the French Reflexive Passive and Anticausative: a diachronic view from the 'par'-phrase. Talk at the Colloque Diachro-3 (Evolutions en français), Paris.
2006 - Middles as Voiced Anticausatives. Talk at the student session of the 'DGfS & GLOW summer school', University of Stuttgart.
2006 - with Artemis Alexiadou. Towards a typology of instrument subjects. Talk at the 22nd annual meeting of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics (IATL 22), Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2006 - with Artemis Alexiadou. Instrument subjects are agents or causers. Talk at the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25), University of Washington, Seattle.
2006 - with Artemis Alexiadou. The readings of instrument subjects: understanding the nature of agents and causers. Talk at the 21st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, UC Santa Cruz.
2006 - A mute Voice for the Middle, talk at the guest lecture series of the graduate school 'Linguistic representations and their interpretation', University of Stuttgart.
2005 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. The fine structure of (anti-)causatives. Talk at NELS 36, UMass, Amherst.
2005 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. Anticausatives crosslinguistically. Talk at the 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, University of Tilburg.
2005 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. The building blocks of anti-causatives: Evidence from PPs and verb restrictions. Talk at the 28th GLOW Colloquium, University of Geneva.
2005 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. Decomposing anticausatives. Talk at the IGG XXXI conference, University of Rome.
2005 - The syntax of the unintentional causer construction. Talk at the guest lecture series of the graduate school 'Linguistic representations and their interpretation', University of Stuttgart.
2004 - On the interpretation of free datives in German decausative constructions. Talk at the annual meeting of the graduate school 'Linguistic representations and their interpretation', Söllerhaus/Kleinwalsertal.
2004 - Zur Interpretation des Dativs bei inchoativen Verben im Deutschen. Talk at the GGS, IDS Mannheim.
2003 - Anti-causatives, poster presentation at the “Tag der Linguistik”, Universität Stuttgart.
2003 - The morphological patterns of anticausatives and their interpretations. Talk at the annual meeting of the graduate school 'Linguistic representations and their interpretation', Söllerhaus/Kleinwalsertal.
2001 - with Hans-Martin Gärtner. One Cheer for OT: UE = EU! Talk at the GGS, University of Bochum.

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