Speaker bio: Professor Fleisher's research interests include syntax and semantics. He has investigated a variety of topics in the area of degree and comparison, including the structure of than clauses; comparative quantifiers; the syntax of gradable adjectives; the determination of standards for positives; scope, thematics, and adjective classes in the tough construction; and the encoding of subjectivity in gradable vocabulary. He is also interested in the perennial core problems of the syntax-semantics interface, especially those related to scope, binding, and ellipsis.
