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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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