Nicholas Fleisher

Assistant Professor

Office: Curtin Hall 518
Phone: 414-229-6166
E-mail: fleishen@uwm.edu
Web Site: https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/fleishen/www/
Curriculum Vitae: PDF

Degrees:

Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
M.A., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
B.A., Comparative Literature, Yale University, 2001

Research Interests:

Syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, Slavic

Teaching Interests:

Syntax, semantics, general linguistics

Recent Publications:

2013. On the absence of scope reconstruction in tough-subject A-chains. Linguistic Inquiry 44: 321-332.

2011. Attributive adjectives, infinitival relatives, and the semantics of inappropriateness. Journal of Linguistics 47: 341-380.

2009. Positive standards of comparison. In Proceedings of NELS 38, vol. 1, ed. by A. Schardl, M. Walkow, and M. Abdurrahman, 283-296. Amherst, Mass: GLSA.

2008. Passive get, causative get, and the phasehood of passive vP. In Proceedings of CLS 41 [2005], ed. by R. L. Edwards, P. J. Midtlyng, C. L. Sprague, and K. G. Stensrud, 59-67. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.

2008. A crack at a hard nut: Attributive-adjective modality and infinitival relatives. In Proceedings of WCCFL 26, ed. by C. B. Chang and H. J. Haynie. Somerville, Mass: Cascadilla Press.

2006. The origin of passive get. English Language and Linguistics 10: 225-252.