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VALENTINE HACQUARD





DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
1401 MARIE MOUNT HALL
COLLEGE PARK, MD 20742-7505

(301) 405-4935
HACQUARD -AT- UMD -DOT- EDU


OVERVIEW




I am a professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. My work focuses
on formal semantics and its interfaces with syntax and pragmatics, mostly in the
domain of modality and attitude reports. I am particularly interested in how
these systems are constrained in natural language, and how children acquire
them.


Acquisition of Attitudes Project
Acquisition of Modality Project
Curriculum Vitae


RESEARCH




Representative Work

 * Hacquard, Valentine (2022) ‘Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping’.
   Journal of Child Language, pp. 1–24, keynote article.
   doi:10.1017/S0305000922000605
 * Hacquard, Valentine and Jeffrey Lidz (2018) 'Children's attitude problems:
   Bootstrapping verb meaning from syntax and pragmatics'. Mind and Language,
   pp.1-24.
 * Hacquard, Valentine and Ailis Cournane (2016) 'Themes and variations in the
   expression of modality'. In Proceedings of NELS 46, pp.21-42.
 * Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2014) 'Factivity, belief and
   discourse', In L. Crnic and U. Sauerland (eds.) The Art and Craft of
   Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL. 69-90.
 * 
 * Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2013). 'Epistemics and attitudes'.
   Semantics and Pragmatics 6.8, pp.1-59.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2011) 'Modality'. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger, and
   P. Portner (eds.) Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language
   Meaning. HSK 33.2 Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1484-1515.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2010) 'On the event relativity of modal auxiliaries'.
   Natural Language Semantics 18(1), pp. 79-114.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2009) 'On the interaction of aspect and modal
   auxiliaries'. Linguistics and Philosophy 32, pp. 279-312.


Latest Work

 * Cournane, Ailis, Mina Hirzel, and Valentine Hacquard (2023). 'Mapping modal
   verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on ‘force’ and ‘flavor’ with
   young preschoolers'. Language Acquisition. DOI 10.1080/10489223.2023.2173074
 * Goodhue, Daniel, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2023) ‘18-month-olds
   understand the links between declaratives and assertions, and interrogatives
   and questions’. In Proceedings of BUCLD 47.
 * Kurokami, Hisao, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2023)
   ‘English-acquiring 4-year-olds’ understanding of the interaction between too
   and focus’. In Proceedings of BUCLD 47.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2022) ‘Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping’.
   Journal of Child Language, pp. 1–24, keynote article.
   doi:10.1017/S0305000922000605
 * van Dooren, Annemarie, Anouk Dieuleveut, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine
   Hacquard (2022). 'Figuring out root and epistemic uses of modals: The role of
   the input'. Journal of Semantics.39(4), pp. 581-616
 * Hacquard, Valentine, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022). 'On the acquisition of attitude
   verbs'. Annual Reviews in Linguistics 8(1), pp. 193-212.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2022). 'Logic and the lexicon: Insights from modality'.
   In A. Papafragou, J. Trueswell, and L. Gleitman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of
   the Mental Lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 * Yang, Yu'an, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022). 'Do
   children know whanything? 3-year-olds understand the ambiguity of wh-phrases
   in Mandarin'. Language Acquisition. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2021.2020275
 * Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine
   Hacquard (2022). 'Figuring out modal force: Evidence from children's
   production and input'. Natural Language Semantics 30, pp. 269-310. DOI
   10.1007/s11050-022-09196-4
 * Huang, Nick, Aaron White, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey
   Lidz (2022). 'Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished
   morphosyntax'. Language Acquisition 21(1), pp.27-53.


More Papers

 * All
 * Modality
 * Attitudes
 * Tense and Aspect
 * Acquisition
 * Comparatives
 * Speech Perception

 * Cournane, Ailis, Mina Hirzel, and Valentine Hacquard (2023). 'Mapping modal
   verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on ‘force’ and ‘flavor’ with
   young preschoolers'. Language Acquisition. DOI 10.1080/10489223.2023.2173074
 * Goodhue, Daniel, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2023) ‘18-month-olds
   understand the links between declaratives and assertions, and interrogatives
   and questions’. In Proceedings of BUCLD 47.
 * Kurokami, Hisao, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2023)
   ‘English-acquiring 4-year-olds’ understanding of the interaction between too
   and focus’. In Proceedings of BUCLD 47.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2022) ‘Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping’.
   Journal of Child Language, 1–24, keynote article.
   doi:10.1017/S0305000922000605
 * van Dooren, Annemarie, Anouk Dieuleveut, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine
   Hacquard (2022). 'Figuring out root and epistemic uses of modals: The role of
   the input'. Journal of Semantics.39(4), pp. 581-616
 * Hacquard, Valentine, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022). 'On the acquisition of attitude
   verbs'. Annual Reviews in Linguistics 8(1), pp. 193-212.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2022). 'Logic and the lexicon: Insights from modality'.
   In A. Papafragou, J. Trueswell, and L. Gleitman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of
   the Mental Lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 * Yang, Yu'an, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022). 'Do
   children know whanything? 3-year-olds understand the ambiguity of wh-phrases
   in Mandarin'. Language Acquisition. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2021.2020275
 * Huang, Nick, Yang, Yu'an, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022).
   'Learning Subcategorization Properties of Attitude Verbs in Wh-in situ
   Languages'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 46.
 * Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine
   Hacquard (2022). 'Figuring out modal force: Evidence from children's
   production and input'. Natural Language Semantics 30, pp. 269-310. DOI
   10.1007/s11050-022-09196-4
 * Huang, Nick, Aaron White, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey
   Lidz (2022). 'Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished
   morphosyntax'. Language Acquisition 21(1), pp.27-53.
 * Cournane, Ailis and Valentine Hacquard (2022). 'Methods for studying modality
   in language acquisition'. Modality in underdescribed languages: Methods and
   Insights. De Gruyter.
 * Kurokami, Hisao, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz
   (2021).'Children's interpretation of additive particles mo 'also' and also in
   Japanese and English'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 45.
 * Yang, Yu'an, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2021). 'Acquisition of
   belief reports by Mandarin speaking children'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 45.
 * Dieuleveut, Anouk, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine Hacquard (2021). 'Finding
   the force: a novel word learning experiment with modals'. In Proceedings of
   ELM 1.
 * Goodhue, Daniel, Jad Wehbe, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2021). 'The
   effect of intonation on the illocutionary force of declaratives in child
   comprehension'. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25.
 * Zaitsu, Anissa, Jad Wehbe, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2021).
   'Clause types and speech acts in speech to children'. In Proceedings of ELM
   1.
 * Harrigan, Kaitlyn, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2019). 'Hope for
   syntactic bootstrapping'. Language 95(4), pp.642-682.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2020). The child in semantics'. In R. Bhatt, I. Frana,
   P. Menendez-Benito (eds.) A Festschrift for Angelika Kratzer.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2020). Actuality Entailments' In L. Matthewson, C.
   Meier, H. Rullmann, T. E. Zimmermann (eds.) Companion to Semantics. Wiley.
 * Anand, Pranav, Jane Grimshaw, and Valentine Hacquard (2019). 'Sentence
   embedding predicates, factivity and subjects'. In C. Condoravdi (ed.) A
   Festschrift for Lauri Karttunen.
 * Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine
   Hacquard (2019). 'Learning modal force: evidence from children's production
   and input'. In Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium.
 * van Dooren, Annemarie, Maxime Tulling, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine Hacquard
   (2019). 'Discovering modal polysemy: lexical aspect might help'. In
   Proceedings of BUCLD 43.
 * Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine
   Hacquard (2019). 'Acquiring the force of modals: sig you guess what sig
   means?'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 43.
 * Hacquard, Valentine and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'Children's attitude problems:
   Bootstrapping verb meaning from syntax and pragmatics'. Mind and Language,
   pp.1-24.
 * Wellwood, Alexis, Roumyana Pancheva, Valentine Hacquard, and Colin Phillips
   (2018).'The anatomy of a comparative illusion'. Journal of Semantics.
   doi:10.1093/jos/ffy014
 * Brockmann, Saskia, Sara McConnell, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz
   (2018). 'Children's comprehension of pronouns and definites. Are children
   sensitive to contextual requirements?'. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22.
 * White, Aaron Steven, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'Semantic
   information and the syntax of propositional attitude verbs'. Cognitive
   Science 42, 416-456.
 * Dudley, Rachel, Meredith Rowe, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018).
   'The difficulty of knowing: discovering the contrast between think and know'.
   Under review.
 * White, Aaron Steven, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'The
   labeling problem in syntactic bootstrapping: Main clause syntax and the
   acquisition of propositional attitude verbs'. In K. Syrett and S. Arunachalam
   (eds.) Semantics in Acquisition, Trends in Language Acquisition Research.
 * Harrigan, Kaitlyn, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'Three year
   olds' understanding of desire reports is robust to conflict'. Frontiers in
   Psychology 9.
 * Huang, Nick, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018).
   'Learning attitude verb meanings in a morphosyntactically-poor language'.
   Proceedings of BUCLD 42.
 * Dudley, Rachel, Meredith Rowe, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018).
   'Discovering the factivity of know'. In Proceedings of SALT 27.
 * van Dooren, A., A. Dieuleveut, A. Cournane, and V. Hacquard (2017). Learning
   what 'must' and 'can' must and can mean. Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam
   Colloquium. Supplement.
 * Lewis, Shevaun, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2017). '“think”
   pragmatically: children's interpretation of belief reports'. Language
   Learning and Development 13(4), 357-374.
 * White, Aaron Steven, Valentine Hacquard, Philip Resnik, and Jeffrey Lidz
   (2017). 'The contextual modulation of semantic information'. (Under review).
 * Hacquard, Valentine and Ailis Cournane (2016). 'Themes and variations in the
   expression of modality'. In Proceedings of NELS 46, pp.21-42.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2016). 'Modals: Meaning categories?'. In J. Blaszczak,
   A. Giannakidou, D. Klimek-Jankowska, K. Migdalski (eds.) Mood, aspect,
   modality revisited: New answers to old questions. Chicago: University of
   Chicago Press, pp. 45-74.
 * Harrigan, Kaitlyn, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2016). 'Syntactic
   bootstrapping and the acquisition of attitude verbs: think, want, and hope'.
   In K. Kim et al. (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 33, 196-206.
 * Altshuler, Daniel, Valentine Hacquard, Thomas Roberts, and Aaron White
   (2015). 'On double access, cessation and parentheticality'. In Proceedings of
   SALT 25.
 * Moyer, Morgan, Kaitlyn Harrigan, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2015).
   '2-year-olds' comprehension of personal pronouns'. In Proceedings of BUCLD
   39.
 * Dudley, Rachel, Naho Orita, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2015).
   'Three year olds' understanding of know and think'. In F. Schwarz (ed.)
   Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions. Studies in Theoretical
   Psycholinguistics Series, volume 45. Springer International Publishing,
   241-262.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2014). 'Bootstrapping attitudes'. In T. Snider (ed.)
   Proceedings of SALT 24, 330-352.
 * Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2014). 'Factivity, belief and
   discourse', In L. Crnic and U. Sauerland (eds.) The Art and Craft of
   Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL. 69-90.
 * 
 * White, Aaron Steven, Rachel Dudley, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz
   (2014). 'Discovering classes of attitude verbs using subcategorization frame
   distributions'. In Proceedings of NELS 43.
 * Dudley, Rachel, Naho Orita, Morgan Moyer, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey
   Lidz (2014).'Factivity in three year olds' understanding of know and think'.
   In Proceedings of BUCLD 38.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2013). 'On the grammatical category of modality'. In M.
   Aloni, M. Franke, F. Roelofsen (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th Amsterdam
   Colloquium.
 * Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2013). 'Epistemics and attitudes'.
   Semantics and Pragmatics 6.8, pp.1-59.
 * Hacquard, Valentine and Alexis Wellwood (2012). 'Embedding epistemic modals
   in English: a corpus-based study'. Semantics and Pragmatics 5.4, pp.1-29.
 * Lewis, Shevaun, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2012). 'The semantics
   of pragmatics of belief reports in preschoolers'. In A. Chereches (ed.)
   Proceedings of SALT 22, pp. 226-246.
 * Wellwood, Alexis, Valentine Hacquard, and Roumyana Pancheva (2012).
   'Measuring and comparing individuals and events'. Journal of Semantics 29(2),
   pp. 207-228.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2011). 'Modality'. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger, P.
   Portner (eds.) Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language
   Meaning. HSK 33.2 Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1484-1515.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2010). 'On the event relativity of modal auxiliaries'.
   Natural Language Semantics 18(1), pp. 79-114.
 * Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2010). 'The role of the imperfect in
   Romance counterfactuals'. In M. Prinzhorn, V. Schmitt, S. Zobel (eds.)
   Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14, pp. 37-50.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2009). 'On the interaction of aspect and modal
   auxiliaries'. Linguistics and Philosophy 32, pp. 279-312.
 * Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2009). 'Epistemics with attitude'. In
   Proceedings of SALT 18.
 * Sowalsky, Emily, Valentine Hacquard, and Tom Roeper (2009). 'PP opacity'. In
   J. Crawford et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative
   Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA). Somerville, MA:
   Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 253-261.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2008). 'Restructuring and implicative properties of
   volere'. In A. Gronn (ed.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12.
 * Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2008). 'When the present is all in the
   past'. In L. de Saussure, J. Moeschler, G. Puskas (eds.) Recent Advances in
   the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Mood and Aspect. Berlin: Mouton de
   Gruyter.
 * Gualmini, Andrea, Sarah Hulsey, Valentine Hacquard, and Danny Fox (2008).
   'The Question-Answer requirement for scope assignment'. Natural Language
   Semantics 16, pp. 205-237.
 * Hacquard, Valentine, MaryAnn Walter, and Alec Marantz (2007). 'The effects of
   inventory on vowel perception in French and Spanish: an MEG study'. Brain and
   Language 100(3), pp. 295-300.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2007). 'Speaker-oriented vs. subject-oriented modals: a
   split in implicative behavior'. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2006), 'Aspects of too and enough constructions'. In E.
   Georgala and J. Howell (eds.) Proceedings of SALT 15. Ithaca, NY: CLC
   Publications.
 * Hacquard, Valentine (2006). Aspects of modality. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT.
 * Walter, Mary Ann and Valentine Hacquard (2004). 'MEG evidence for
   phonological underspecification'.Proceedings of BioMag 2004. [longer version]


STUDENTS



 * Alexis Wellwood (PhD 2014), Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
   USC
 * Aaron Steven White (PhD 2015), Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
   & Goergen Institute for Data Science, Rochester University
 * Rachel Dudley (PhD 2017), Postdoc, Cognitive Development Center & Department
   of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
 * Annemarie van Dooren (PhD 2020), Post-doctoral researcher, Language in
   Interaction, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the
   Netherlands
 * Anouk Dieuleveut (PhD 2021), Postdoc, LLF, Paris, France
 * Yu'an Yang, (PhD student 2022), Amazon
 * Hisao Kurokami, PhD student, UMD
 * Jessica Mendes, PhD student, UMD
 * Jingyi Chen, PhD student, UMD
   Sarah Boukendour
   , PhD student, UMD
 * Elizabeth Swanson, PhD student, UMD


TEACHING



 * Undergraduate
 * Graduate
 * Invited Courses

 * Ling 419C: Language and Theory of Mind, undergraduate seminar, Spring 2012
 * Ling410: Grammar and Meaning, Fall 2007, 2009, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, Spring
   2013
 * Honr218L: Language and Mind, Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015

 * Ling 660: Introduction to Semantics, Fall 2007, 2011, 2016
 * Ling 661: Issues in Semantics, Spring 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,
   2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
 * Ling 689/889: Pragmatics (with A. Williams), Spring 2010
 * Ling 689/889: Classic Papers in Semantics, Spring 2009
 * Ling 879: Seminar in Semantics: The acquisition of semantics (with J. Lidz),
   Spring 2022
 * Ling 879: Seminar in Semantics: Modality: Themes and variation in force and
   flavor (with D. Goodhue), Spring 2021
 * Ling 879: Seminar in Semantics: Speech acts, clause types and their
   acquisition (with D. Goodhue, J. Lidz), Spring 2020
 * Ling 879: Seminar in Semantics: Modality: Grammar, Meaning and Acquisition,
   Spring 2018
 * Ling 879: Seminar in Semantics: Meaning & Distribution, (with J. Lidz, A.
   Williams), Spring 2016
 * Ling 879: Seminar in Semantics: Word Meanings and Semantic Universals, Spring
   2015
 * Ling 889: Seminar in Semantics & Acquisition: Acquiring the Semantics and
   Pragmatics of Attitude Verbs (with J. Lidz), Fall 2012
 * Ling 879: Seminar in Semantics: Modals, Attitudes, and Evidentials, Fall 2011
 * Ling 889: Seminar in Linguistics & Philosophy: Propositional Attitudes (with
   E. Eaker), Fall 2008
 * Ling 879: Seminar in Semantics: Aspect and Modality, Spring 2008

 * Modals, Attitudes, and Evidentials. Ealing. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris,
   September 2010.
 * Semantics of Attitudes. LOT Winter school. Tillburg, January 2016.
 * On the semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports: the view from
   acquisition, minicourse, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2016.

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