About
My research focuses on the semantics of natural language and its interface with syntax and pragmatics. In my work, I closely combine formal approaches with crosslinguistic and experimental methods of investigation. Some topics I have worked on include polar and wh-questions, negative polarity and negative concord, connectives, and unconditionals.
I am a postdoctoral researcher involved in the LeibnizDream project “Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind” (PIs: Artemis Alexiadou (HU), Maria Teresa Guasti (UniMiB), and Uli Sauerland (ZAS)). I received my PhD from Harvard University in January 2021, with a dissertation on polar questions and interrogative particles supervised by Gennaro Chierchia.
You can contact me at auroregonzalez ‘at’ alumni.harvard.edu or aurore.gonzalez ‘at’ unimib.it
Recent & upcoming
- “Core Concepts and Indirect Alternatives: On the Anti-Duality of Quantifiers” with Paloma Jeretič, Itai Bassi, Marie-Christine Meyer, Kazuko Yatsushiro and Uli Sauerland, accepted in Journal of Semantics.
- “Which conjunctive expressions are hiding something? The view from (younger) children” with Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Ágnes Langó-Tóth and Uli Sauerland, to be presented at Language Development from Infancy to Adolescence 4 on February 19, 2026.
- “Sì and no: How Italian children and adults answer positive and negative polar questions” with Chiara Dal Farra, Silvia Silleresi, Desiré Carioti and Maria Teresa Guasti, published in Language Acquisition. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2025.2562194
- The Proceedings of TripleA 11 edited with Jérémy Pasquereau are now published.
- “Aspectual shift in Romance: A preliminary study” with Anamaria Fălăuş and Gennaro Chierchia, published in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29. DOI: 10.18148/sub/2025.v29.1232
- “Is DP conjunction always complex?: The view from child Georgian and Hungarian” with Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Tamar Makharoblidze and Lilla Pintér, published in Semantics & Pragmatics. DOI: 10.3765/sp.18.5
- “French constituent unconditionals relativize a free choice item” with Karoliina Lohiniva, to appear in the volume Theory, data, and practice.