Nicholas Fleisher
Curriculum vitae

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Employment

• Wayne State University
  Department of English
  Assistant Professor of Linguistics
  (starting fall 2008)

Education

• University of California, Berkeley
  • Ph.D., Linguistics, 2008
  Dissertation title: Adjectives and infinitives in composition
  Committee in charge: Chris Barker, Andrew Garrett, Line Mikkelsen (chair), Alan Timberlake
  • M.A., Linguistics, 2004
• Linguistic Society of America Institute
  Michigan State University, summer 2003
• Yale University
  • B.A. magna cum laude, Comparative Literature, 2001

Publications

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Refereed Articles

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

Conference Proceedings Papers

• To appear
  • Positive standards of comparison. In Proceedings of NELS 38. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA.
  • Passive get, causative get, and the phasehood of passive vP. In Proceedings of CLS 41. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
• 2008
  • A crack at a hard nut: Attributive-adjective modality and infinitival relatives. In Proceedings of WCCFL 26, ed. by Charles B. Chang and Hannah J. Haynie. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press.
• 2005
  • Preservation of the marked in vowel reharmonization. In Proceedings of NELS 35, vol. 1, ed. by Leah Bateman and Cherlon Ussery, 201–215. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA.

Volumes Edited

• 2005
  • Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (vol. 30 and 30S), ed. by Marc Ettlinger, Nicholas Fleisher, and Mischa Park-Doob. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Unpublished Manuscripts

• 2006
  • Russian dative subjects, case, and control. Ms., University of California, Berkeley. 38 pp.
• 2003
  • A derivational account of backward dependence and unbounded anaphor interpretation. Ms., University of California, Berkeley. 16 pp. Submitted.

Conference Presentations

• 2008
  • Infinitival standards of comparison and the structure of scales
    LSA Annual Meeting
    Chicago, Ill., Jan. 4
• 2007
  • Russian dative subjects, case, and control
    AATSEEL Annual Meeting
    Chicago, Ill., Dec. 28
  • Positive standards of comparison
    NELS 38
    University of Ottawa, Oct. 28
  • A crack at a hard nut: Attributive-adjective modality and infinitival relatives
    WCCFL 26
    University of California, Berkeley, April 29
  • Infinitival relative standards for attributive gradable adjectives
    LSA Annual Meeting
    Anaheim, Calif., Jan. 6
• 2006
  • The syntax of possession-obligation modals: Evidence from expletives
    LSA Annual Meeting
    Albuquerque, N.M., Jan. 5
• 2005
  • Russian dative subjects as object controllers
    S-TREND
    Stanford University, April 16
  • Passive get, causative get, and the phasehood of passive vP
    CLS 41
    University of Chicago, April 7
• 2004
  • Preservation of the marked in vowel reharmonization
    NELS 35
    University of Connecticut, Oct. 23
  • The development of passive get: A semantic basis for syntactic reanalysis
    8th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DIGS VIII)
    Yale University, June 25
• 2003
  • A derivational account of backward dependence and unbounded anaphor interpretation
    Workshop on the Form and Function of Pronouns
    University of British Columbia, Sept. 20

Invited Talks

• 2008
  • Modal standards for positive attributive adjectives
    Wayne State University, Feb. 15

Teaching

• Fall 2008
  • Linguistics 6720: Topics in Language: Semantics
    Wayne State University
• Summer 2007
  • Linguistics 100: Introduction to Linguistic Science
    UC Berkeley
• Fall 2005
  • Graduate Student Instructor
    Linguistics 130: Comparative and Historical Linguistics
    UC Berkeley; Instructor: Gary Holland
• Spring 2005
  • Graduate Student Instructor
    Linguistics 120: Introduction to Syntax and Semantics
    UC Berkeley; Instructor: Line Mikkelsen
• Fall 2004
  • Graduate Student Instructor
    Linguistics 100: Introduction to Linguistic Science
    UC Berkeley; Instructor: Lotus Goldberg

Awards and Fellowships

Awards

• 2005–06
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley Graduate Division

Fellowships

• 2007–08
  • Chancellor's Dissertation-Year Fellowship, UC Berkeley
• 2006–07
  • Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley
• 2006
  • Graduate Division Summer Grant, UC Berkeley
  • Departmental Fellowship, UC Berkeley Linguistics, Spring
• 2003–04
  • Departmental Fellowship, UC Berkeley Linguistics
• 2003
  • Linguistic Society of America Institute Fellowship
  • Graduate Division Summer Grant, UC Berkeley
• 2002–03
  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Professional Organizations and Service

• Memberships
  • Linguistic Society of America
  • Canadian Linguistic Association
  • Slavic Linguistics Society
• Service
  • Organizer, UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle, Spring 2007
  • Reviewer, WCCFL 26 (2007), 27 (2008)
  • Graduate student representative, UC Berkeley Dept. of Linguistics, Fall 2004–Fall 2005
  • Co-chair, 30th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 2004

Languages and Computer Skills

• Languages
  • English (native), French, German, Russian, Latin; elementary Georgian and Uzbek
• Field Work
  • Hupa (Athabaskan), Kuki-Thaadow (Tibeto-Burman)
• Computing
  • (X)HTML, CSS, LaTeX; some Perl, Python, PHP

• Employment
• Education
• Publications
• Conference Presentations
• Invited Talks
• Teaching
• Awards and Fellowships
• Professional Organizations and Service
• Languages and Computer Skills