Vincent Rouillard


I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University .

I study meaning; my research expertise lies in the areas of formal semantics and pragmatics, where I’ve worked on topics that include number, interrogatives, presupposition, scalar implicatures, measurement, tense, aspect, and polarity sensitivity.

I pronounce my name [vẽɪ̃sã ʁujɑɔ̯ʁ̞] but go by [vɪnsənt ɹujɑɹ] in the context of English conversation.

For inquiries, feel free to email me at vrouillard@fas.harvard.edu.

Papers

Submitted

  • Maximal Informativity Accounts for the Licensing of Temporal in-Adverbials

    • 2024

  • Thinking Statively and Dynamically: A View from Georgian,
    with Tatiana Bondarenko and Richard Luo,
    Proceedings of Amsterdam Colloquium 2024

    • 2023

  • Spanish Bare Interrogatives and Number,
    with Luis Alonso-Ovalle,
    Journal of Semantics

    • 2022

  • Lexically triggered uniqueness in wh-questions: An argument from Brazilian Portuguese,
    with Filipe Hisao Kobayashi,
    Proceedings of SALT 31

    • 2021

  • High and low uniqueness in singular wh-interrogatives,
    with Filipe Hisao Kobayashi,
    Proceedings of SALT 30

    • 2020

  • Alternatives, density, and in-adverbials,
    Proceedings of NELS 50
  • Tying Free Choice in Questions to Distributivity,
    with Filipe Hisao Kobayashi,
    Proceedings of LENLS 16
  • Second language experience impacts first language irony processing among bilingual adults,
    with Mehrgol Tiv, Fiona Deodato, Sabrina Wiebe, and Debra Titone,
    Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale

    • 2019

  • Global second language proficiency predicts self-perceptions of general sarcasm use among bilingual adults,
    with Mehrgol Tiv, Naomi Vingron, Sabrina Wiebe, and Debra Titone,
    Journal of Language and Social Psychology
  • Number Inflection, Spanish Bare Interrogatives, and Higher-Order Quantification,
    with Luis Alonso-Ovalle,
    Proceedings of NELS 49

    • 2018

  • Presuppositional implicatures: Quantity or Maximize Presupposition?,
    with Bernhard Schwarz,
    Proceedings of SuB 22

    • 2017

  • Epistemic narrowing from Maximize Presupposition,
    with Bernhard Schwarz,
    Proceedings of NELS 47

    • Dissertation

  • A Semantic Account of Distributional Constraints on Temporal in-Adverbials,
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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