E-mail: enguehard@leibniz-ZAS.de
Office 1.44, Leibniz-ZAS, Pariser Straße 1, Berlin.
I am a postdoc working in the area of natural language semantics and pragmatics. Currently, I am a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation at ZAS in Berlin. I am interested in the semantics/pragmatics interface in a general way, and in particular the mechanisms of exhaustification, the semantics of questions, and the role of alternatives in meaning.
I completed my Ph.D. at Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, under the supervision of Benjamin Spector. Before getting into linguistics, I studied theoretical computer science and machine learning.
My name is pronounced /emil ɑ̃gø.aʁ/.
You can find my academic CV here.
What number marking on indefinites means: conceivability presuppositions and sensitivity to probabilities. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28 (2024). [ link ]
Fine-grained yet flat: on the usefulness of dynamic representations of questions. Theoretical Linguistics 49.1-2 (2023). [ link ]
Explaining presupposition projection in (coordinations of) polar questions. Natural Language Semantics 29 (2021). [ link ]
Explaining gaps in the logical lexicon of natural languages: A decision-theoretic perspective on the square of Aristotle (with Benjamin Spector). Semantics and Pragmatics 14 (2021). [ link ]
Minimal sufficiency readings of necessity modals. Proceedings of NELS 50 (2020). [ link to related manuscript ]
Connectedness as a constraint on exhaustification (with Emmanuel Chemla). Linguistics and Philosophy 44 (2019). [ link ]
Comparative modified numerals revisited: granularity, scalar implicatures and blindness to context. Proceedings of SALT 28 (2018). [ link ]
Statistical Learning Theory and Linguistic Typology: a Learnability Perspective on OT’s Strict Domination (with Edward Flemming and Giorgio Magri). Proceedings of SCiL 1 (2018). [ link ]
Exploring the Syntactic Abilities of RNNs with Multi-task Learning (with Yoav Goldberg and Tal Linzen). ConLL 2017 (2017). [ link ]
Scalar competition across environments. Meaning in Language Colloquium, HHU (2024). [ related handout ]
A bilateral dynamic semantics for questions and propositions. MLC Seminar, ILLC (2022). [ slides ]
Tying the denotation of “tall” to considerations of utility. WIP-LANG seminar, ENS (2018). [ handout ]