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 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.