Vincent Rouillard

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.

Contact me at vincent.rouillard [at] alum.mit.edu.

Papers

Forthcoming

• Maximal Informativity Accounts for the Distribution of Temporal in-Adverbials,
  Linguistics and Philosophy

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