Publications

Some downloadable papers at
https://uni-graz.academia.edu/steffenheidinger

Books

• 2018. Sekundäre Prädikation und Informationsstruktur: Fokus und Informationsstatus bei spanischen Depiktiven. Berlin: Peter Lang. [= Studia Romanica et Linguistica 54]
  Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3726/b14723
• 2010. French anticausatives: a diachronic perspective. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. [= Linguistische Arbeiten 537]

Edited volumes

• 2014. Methodological Issues in the Study of Information Structure [Special Issue]. Grazer Linguistische Studien 81. (with Dina El Zarka)
  URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubg:3-2041
  [published version]

Journal articles

• 2023. The relationship between semantic roles and the causative-anticausative alternation: Evidence from French change-of-state verbs. In Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences. Ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1515/roja-2023-0004 (open access) (with Richard Huyghe)

• 2023. Humanness, pronoun types, and orphan prepositions in French. In Romanistisches Jahrbuch 74(1). 45-84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/roja-2023-0004

• 2022. The focus prominence rule in Spanish from a perception perspective. In Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 11 (1). 141-172. DOI: doi.org/10.7557/1.11.1.6483 (open access) (with Christoph Gabriel)
• 2022. Corpus data and the position of information foci in Spanish. In Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 15 (1). 67-109.
  DOI: doi.org/10.1515/shll-2022-2056 (open access)
• 2021. Focus affinity in Spanish: An experimental study. In Journal of Pragmatics 186. 100-116. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.09.015 (open access) (with Edgar Onea)
• 2019. Reflexive and unmarked anticausatives in French and Spanish: Frequency of transitive use and undergoer overlap. In Langages 216(4). 2019. 53-69.
  DOI: 10.3917/lang.216.0053
• 2019. Anaphernresolution und verwaiste Präpositionen im Französischen. In Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur 129(1). 3-30.
  DOI: 10.25162/zfsl-2019-0001
• 2019. Proforms in French depictives and copular constructions and the favor clitic’ principle. In Grazer Linguistische Studien 91. 1-19.
• 2016. Intermediate information status for non-nominal constituents: evidence from Spanish secondary predicates in adversatives. In Folia Linguistica 50 (2). 629-675.
  DOI: 10.1515/flin-2016-0022
• 2015. Optionality and preferences in Spanish postverbal constituent order: an OT account without basic constituent order. In Lingua 162. 102-127.
  DOI:10.1016/j.lingua.2015.05.003
  [preprint]
• 2015. The information status and discourse anchorage of non-nominal constituents: A case study on Spanish secondary predicates. In Journal of Pragmatics 81. 52–73.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2015.03.012
  [preprint]
• 2015. Causalness and the encoding of the causative-anticausative alternation in French and Spanish. In Journal of Linguistics 51(3). 562-594.
  DOI: 10.1017/S0022226714000607
  [preprint]
• 2014. El foco informativo y la posición sintáctica de los depictivos orientados al sujeto en español. In Verba: Anuario galego de filoloxia 41. 51–74.
  DOI: 10.15304/verba.41.1501
  [published version]
• 2014. The persistence of labile verbs in the French causative-anticausative alternation. In Linguistics 52(4). 1003–1024.
  DOI: 10.1515/ling-2014-0014
• 2013. Information focus, syntactic weight and postverbal constituent order in Spanish. In Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 2(2), 159-190.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/1.2.2.2742
  [published version]
• 2012. Frequenz und die Kodierung der Kausativ-Antikausativ-Alternation im Französischen. In Romanistisches Jahrbuch 62, 31-58.
  DOI: 10.1515/roma.62.2

 Chapters

• 2022. Valency in the Romance languages.  In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.670
• 2022. Secondary predication in the Romance languages. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.665
• 2021. El foco informativo y la afinidad con el foco. In Manuel Leonetti & M. V. Escandell-Vidal (eds.), La estructura informativa, 319–357. Madrid: Visor Libros.
• 2018. Acceptability and frequency in Spanish focus marking. In Marco García García & Melanie Uth (eds.), Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond, 99-128. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• 2016. El orden de los constituyentes posverbales y la expresión del foco informativo en español. In Adam Ledgeway, Michela Cennamo & Guido Mensching (eds.), Actes du XXVIIe Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes (Nancy, 15-20 juillet 2013). Section 4: Syntaxe, 217–232. Nancy: ATILF.
• 2015. The auxiliary selection of French monter 'move upward' from the 16th to the 20th century. In Auxiliary selection revisited, eds. Kailuweit, Rolf, and Malte Rosemeyer, 277-300. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• 2014. Introduction. Grazer Linguistische Studien 81 [Special Issue: Methodological Issues in the Study of Information Structure]. 5-13. (with Dina El Zarka)
  URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubg:3-2041
• 2014. Fronting and contrastively focused secondary predicates in Spanish. In Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish, eds. Dufter, Andreas, and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo, 125-154. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  DOI: 10.1075/la.214.09hei
  [preprint]
• 2012. Zur Absenz und Präsenz eines Valenzoperators bei Unmarkierten Antikausativa im Französischen. In L'absence au niveau syntagmatique: Fallstudien zum Französischen, eds. Fesenmeier, Ludwig, Anke Grutschus, and Carolin Patzelt, 91-108. Frankfurt a. Main: Klostermann.
• 2008. The French reflexive passive and anticausative: a diachronic view from the par-phrase. In Evolutions en français: Etudes de linguistique diachronique, eds. Fagard, B., S. Prévost, B. Combettes, and O. Bertrand, 135-152. Bern: Peter Lang. (with Florian Schäfer)
• 2005. A diachronic perspective on synchronic valence mismatches. In Proceedings of 9ème Atelier des Doctorants en Linguistique, eds. Mardale, A., M. Soufflard, and G. Vercherand, 135-141. Paris: Université de Paris 7.

Reviews

• 2021. "Georg A. Kaiser, Syntax des Französischen. Einführung und Vertiefung (Grundlagen der Romanistik, 30), Berlin, Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2020, 243 p." In Zeitschrift fuer Romanische Philologie 137(4). 1222-1226. DOI:10.1515/zrp-2021-0052
• 2017. Sprachsystemtechnik. Einführung in die Satzanalyse für Romanisten (Sprachwissenschaftliche Studienbücher), Heidelberg, Winter, 2015, 262 p., Reinhard Kiesler. In Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 133(1). 288-292. DOI: 10.1515/zrp-2017-0012

Other

• 2008. French anticausatives: a diachronic perspective. Doctoral Dissertation, University Stuttgart & University Paris 8.
• 2003. Die Valenz der französischen "Witterungsverben" pleuvoir, neiger und grêler. Diplomarbeit, University Graz.