Nicholas Fleisher
Associate Professor
Johnston Hall 127
Personal website: https://people.uwm.edu/fleishen/
Degrees
PhD, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
MA, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
BA, Comparative Literature, Yale University, 2001
Research Interests
Syntax and semantics
Teaching Areas
Syntax, semantics, general linguistics
Selected Publications
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Calculating the scope of negation. Interaction of negation with quantifiers.” The Oxford Handbook of Negation. Ed. Viviane Déprez and M. Teresa Espinal. Oxford University Press, (In Progress) .
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Than clauses as embedded questions.” Proceedings of the 28th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT 28). Ed. Sireemas Maspong, Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir, Katherine Blake and Forrest Davis. Linguistic Society of America, (2018): 120-140.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Comparing theories of quantifiers in than clauses: lessons from downward-entailing differentials.” Semantics and Pragmatics 9.4 (2016): 1-23.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Rare-class adjectives in the tough construction.” Language 91.1 (2015): 73-108.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Comparative quantifiers and negation: implications for Scope Economy.” Journal of Semantics 32.1 (2015): 132-171.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Ellipsis licensing in differential degree complements.” NELS 45: Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 1. Ed. Thuy Bui and Deniz Özyıldız. (2015): 203-216.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “The dynamics of subjectivity.” Proceedings of the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT 23). Ed. Todd Snider. eLanguage / Linguistic Society of America, (2013): 276-294.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “On the absence of scope reconstruction in tough-subject A-chains.” Linguistic Inquiry 44.2 (2013): 321-332.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “Attributive adjectives, infinitival relatives, and the semantics of inappropriateness.” Journal of Linguistics 47.2 (2011): 341-380.
Fleisher, Nicholas. “The origin of passive get.” English Language and Linguistics 10.2 (2006): 225-252.