I beleive that "fazed" is too informal for inclusion in an academic paper.

In "he doesn't seem fazed", "fazed" is the past participle with a 
passive reading used as a subject complement (this is an adjectival 
role; it cannot be verbal because "seem" does not take verbal 
complements -- it's a linking verb, not an auxiliary).

I get OK readings on other transitives used this way: bother, trouble, 
please, etc.

These may have arisen (research on historical syntax might reveal) by 
shortening from "He doesn't seem to be bothered".

I agree on the oddness of "from", but students are all over the place 
with prepositions nowadays. All the same, semantically speaking, it is 
not an illogical choice. "From" is a source preposition; I think there 
are languages that use it the way we use "by" to mark agents in passive 
clauses. German? It's late.

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