Publications
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Books and edited volumes
- Schäfer, Martin (2018). The semantic transparency of English compound nouns. Berlin: Language Science Press. [.bib] DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1134594
Website for the book. - Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Bell, Melanie J. , Schäfer, Martin & Schlücker, Barbara (eds.) (2016). Modelling Compound Properties. Special Issue, Morphology, 26(2). Dordrecht: Springer.
- Schäfer, Martin (2013). Positions and interpretations. German adverbial
adjectives at the syntax-semantics interface. Berlin: De Gruyter
Mouton.
[.bib][.pdf of final draft]
- Dölling, Johannes, Heyde-Zybatow, Tanja & Schäfer, Martin (eds.) (2008). Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation. Berlin-New York: Mouton - de Gruyter.
Papers
- Schäfer, M. (2023). Splitting ‐ly’s: using word embeddings to distinguish derivation and inflection . In: Kotowski, S. & I. Plag (eds.), The Semantics of Derivational Morphology: Theory, Methods, Evidence. Linguistische Arbeiten 586. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 259-300. DOI: 10.1515/9783111074917-009 [.pdf]; Data and scripts: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19093496.v2
- Kotowski, S. and Schäfer, M. (2023). Quantifying semantic relatedness across base verbs and derivatives: English out-prefixation. In: Kotowski, S. & I. Plag (eds.), The Semantics of Derivational Morphology: Theory, Methods, Evidence. Linguistische Arbeiten 586. Linguistische Arbeiten. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 177-218. DOI: 10.1515/9783111074917-007. [.pdf]; Data and scripts: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20367735.v1
- Schäfer, Martin, Gauza, Holger, & Stolterfoht, Britta (2021). Disentangling factors in the placement of manner adverbials in German: The effect of distributional similarity. In Proceedings for the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021), (pp. 390--396). [.pdf]
- Schäfer, Martin (2021). From quick to quick-to-infinitival: On what is lexeme specific across paradigmatic and syntagmatic distributions. English Language and Linguistics, 25(2), 347-377. DOI: 10.1017/S1360674320000167 [published online 11 May 2020].
- Schäfer, Martin (2020). Distributional profiling and the semantics of modifier classes. In: Pinon, Christopher and Roussarie, Laurent (eds.). Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 13 (EISS 13). Paris: CSSP, 139–166.[.pdf]
- Schäfer, Martin & Bell, Melanie J. (2020). Constituent polysemy and interpretational diversity in attested English novel compounds. The Mental Lexicon, 15(1), 42-61. DOI: 10.1075/ml.00013.sch.
- Sheehan, Michelle, Schäfer, Martin & Couto, Maria Carmen Parafita (2019). Crowdsourcing and minority languages: the case of Galician inflected infinitives. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1-17. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01157.
- Bell, Melanie J. & Schäfer, Martin (2016). Modelling semantic transparency. Morphology, 26(2), 157-199. DOI: 10.1007/s11525-016-9286-3. [.pdf]
See also: The semantic coding for this study, Additional notes on the semantic coding. - Schäfer, Martin (2015). Adverbs in unusual places. In Karin Pittner, Daniela Elsner & Fabian Barteld (eds.), Adverbs - functional and diachronic aspects. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 239-272. [.pdf of the revised manuscript]
- Schäfer, Martin (2015). Nominalmodifikation im Englischen und Ereignisargumente. Zwei Fallstudien. In: C. Fortmann, A. Lübbe & I. Rapp (eds.), Situationsargumente im Nominalbereich. Linguistische Arbeiten. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 133-158. [.pdf] (final proofs)
- Bell, Melanie J. & Schäfer, Martin (2015). Modelling semantic transparency in English compound nouns. In: Pirrelli, Vito, Claudia Marzi & Marcello Ferro (eds). Proceedings of the NetWordS Final Conference on Word Knowledge and Word Usage: Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon, Pisa, Italy, March 30–April 1, 2015. 63–65. [.pdf (local copy)]
- Schäfer, Martin (2013). Semantic transparency and anaphoric islands. In: ten Hacken, Pius & Thomas, Claire (eds.), The Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 140-160. [2up scan .pdf][.pdf of the searchable preprint-version including references]
- Bell, Melanie J. & Schäfer, Martin (2013). Semantic transparency: challenges for distributional semantics. In: Herbelot, Aurelie and Zamparelli, Roberto and Boleda, Gemma (eds.). Proceedings of the IWCS 2013 Workshop Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics. Potsdam: Association for Computational Linguistics, 1-10. [.pdf (local copy)] [.bib]. Semantic annotations for this study.
- Gast, Volker & Schäfer, Martin (2012). Relative clauses with adverbial meaning: A quantitative investigation of hybrid adjunct clauses in Latin. In: Gast, V. and H. Diessel (eds.). Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Data-Driven Approaches to Cross-Clausal Syntax, Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 363-391.
- Maienborn, Claudia & Schäfer, Martin (2011). Adverbs
and adverbials. In: Maienborn, C., von Heusinger, K., Portner, P. (eds.). Semantics. An
international handbook of natural language meaning; Volume 2. (HSK 33.2), Berlin,
New York: de Gruyter,
1390-1420. [.pdf
of the preprint-version]
Republished (with minor corrections) in paperback as:
Maienborn, Claudia & Schäfer, Martin (2019). Adverbs and adverbials. In: Maienborn, Claudia, von Heusinger, Klaus, Portner, Paul (eds.). Semantics - Lexical Structures and Adjectives. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 477–514. - Schäfer, Martin (2009). A N constructions in Mandarin and the compound versus phrase debate. Word Structure, 2 (2), 272-293. DOI: 10.3366/E1750124509000452
Note: There is an uncorrected editing mistake in the example sentence (i), footnote 14, page 292. Corrected version (otherwise identical to the published version). - Schäfer, Martin (2008). Resolving scope in manner modification. In: Bonami, Cabredo Hofherr (eds.).Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 7 Paris: CSSP, 351-372.
Note: This paper treats the same empirical phenomena as the 2004 paper below, but proposes a completely new analysis. - Schäfer, Martin (2008). Deutsche adverbiale Adjektive oder was es heißt, ein Adverbial der Art und Weise zu sein. Unpublished manuscript.
- Schäfer, Martin (2004). Manner Adverbs and Scope. In: Steube, A. (Hrsg.).Grammatik und Kontext: Zur Interaktion von Syntax, Semantik und Prosodie bei der Informationsstrukturierung. Linguistische Arbeitsberichte 81, Universität Leipzig:33-51.
- Schäfer, Martin (2004). Manners and Causation. In: Meier, Weisgerber (eds.) Proceedings of the Conference "sub8 - Sinn und Bedeutung". Arbeitspapier 117, Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz: 249-258.
- Schäfer, Martin (2004). Manner adverbs and events: resolving the underspecification. In: Asatiani, Balogh et. al. (eds.). Proceedings of the Fifth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation". Institute for Language, Logic and Computation, University of Amsterdam: 161-166.
- Schäfer, Martin (2003). Before or After the Direct Object: German Adjectival Adverbs and the Syntax-Semantics Interface. In: Weisgerber (ed.).Proceedings of the Conference "sub7 - Sinn und Bedeutung". Arbeitspapier 114, Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz: 272-281.
- Schäfer, Martin (2002). Pure Manner Adverbs Revisited. In: Katz, G., Reinhard, S., Reuter, P. (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung VI, Osnabrück 2001. Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science, vol. 1. University of Osnabrück. Osnabrück: 311-323
- Schäfer, Martin (2001). Pure Manner Adverbs. In: Dölling, Zybatow (Hrsg.) Ereignisstrukturen. Linguistische Arbeitsberichte 76, Universität Leipzig: 251-272.
Data and scripts
- Schäfer, Martin (2022): The role of semantic class in English base/-ly pairs. A distributional analysis. Online resource. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19093496.v2
- Schäfer, Martin; Kotowski, Sven (2022): Quantitative and distributional analyses of English out-prefixation. Online resource. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20367735.v1
- Schäfer, Martin & Bell, Melanie J. (2020). Annotated free paraphrases and difficulty of interpretation for 45 novel English noun-noun compounds. Anglia Ruskin University. Dataset. doi: 10.25411/aru.12933680.v1
- Schäfer, Martin (2020): English speed-related adjectives in attributive usages and other constructions. figshare. Dataset. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12661484.v1
- Parafita Couto, M. C., Sheehan, M., Blokzijl, J., and Schäfer, M. (2019). Galician inflected infinitives: a dataset containing grammaticality judgements and sociolinguistic factors. figshare. Dataset. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8026922.v1
Theses
- Schäfer, Martin (2017). The semantic transparency of English compound nouns. Habilitationsschrift, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
- Schäfer, Martin (2005). German adverbial adjectives: syntactic position and semantic interpretation. Dissertation, Universität Leipzig.
- Schäfer, Martin (1999). Die homophone Partikel de: Ihre Konstruktionen und deren Relevanz im crossmodalen Priming. Magisterarbeit, Universität Leipzig.
Book reviews
- Schäfer, Martin (2018). Review of Pius ten Hacken (ed.), The Semantics of Compounding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Language and Cognition 10 (4), 701-706. doi:10.1017/langcog.2018.19.[.pdf (accepted manuscript)]
- Schäfer, Martin (2006). Review of Himmelmann, N. P., and Schultze-Berndt, E. (2005) Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification. Oxford: Oxford University Press. In Linguist List.
- Schäfer, Martin (2003). Review of Lang et. al. (2003) Modifying Adjuncts. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. In Linguist List.
- Schäfer, Martin (2001). Review of Chierchia, G. and McConnel-Ginet, S. (2000) Meaning and Grammar. Second edition. Cambridge:MIT. In Linguist List.
Other
- Schäfer, Martin (2017). Conference report “Wen wurmt der Ohrwurm? An Interdisciplinary, Cross-Lingual Perspective on the Role of Constituents in Multi-Word Expressions” (Workshop at the 39 th DGfS Annual Conference „Information und sprachliche Kodierung“, Saarbrücken, 08.–10.03.2017). Journal of Word Formation, 1(2), 91-97.
- Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Bell, Melanie J. , Schäfer, Martin & Schlücker, Barbara (2016). Introduction: Modelling compound properties. Morphology, 26(2), 105-108.
- Dölling, Johannes, Heyde-Zybatow, Tanja & Schäfer, Martin (2008) Introduction. In: Dölling, J., Heyde-Zybatow, T. & Schäfer, M. (Eds.): Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation. Berlin-New York: Mouton - de Gruyter, IX-XXII.