Nicholas Fleisher
- Associate Professor, Linguistics
Education
- PhD, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
- MA, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
- BA, Comparative Literature, Yale University, 2001
Teaching Interests
- Syntax
- Semantics
- General linguistics
Research Interests
- Syntax
- Semantics
Selected Publications
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Calculating the scope of negation. Interaction of negation with quantifiers” The Oxford Handbook of NegationOxford: Oxford University Press. ().
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Than clauses as embedded questions” Proceedings of the 28th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT 28)Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. (2018): 120-140.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Comparing theories of quantifiers in than clauses: lessons from downward-entailing differentials” Semantics and Pragmatics9.4 (2016): 1-23.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Ellipsis licensing in differential degree complements” NELS 45: Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 1(2015): 203-216.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Rare-class adjectives in the tough construction” Language91.1 (2015): 73-108.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Comparative quantifiers and negation: implications for Scope Economy” Journal of Semantics32.1 (2015): 132-171.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “The dynamics of subjectivity” Proceedings of the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT 23)Washington, DC and Ithaca, NY: eLanguage / Linguistic Society of America. (2013): 276-294.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “On the absence of scope reconstruction in tough-subject A-chains” Linguistic Inquiry44.2 (2013): 321-332.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Attributive adjectives, infinitival relatives, and the semantics of inappropriateness” Journal of Linguistics47.2 (2011): 341-380.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “The origin of passive get” English Language and Linguistics10.2 (2006): 225-252.