Maria Bittner is Professor Emerita in Linguistics at Rutgers University.[1]

She is a fieldworker, semanticist, and logician whose work has focused on tense and cross-linguistic typology. She is best known for her descriptive and theoretical work on the Greenlandic language Kalaallisut,[2] for which she has done some text documentation.[3] She has long combined linguistic fieldwork, and to analyze her data she has developed a compositional dynamic update logic, building on DRT and Centering Theory, but with a novel architecture.[4] She has also worked on the phenomena of case,[5] questions,[6] and causatives.[7]

Bittner received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988[8] and spent 30 years at Rutgers University before retiring in 2018.[9]

Publications (selected)

  • Bittner, Maria. 1994. Case, scope, and binding. Springer. ISBN 978-94-011-1412-7[5]
  • Bittner, Maria. 2014. Temporality. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1405190398[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Emerita/-us Faculty". ling.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "Maria Bittner - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  3. ↑ "Maria Bittner - Kalaallisut". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  4. 1 2 Bittner, Maria (2014). Temporality : universals and variation (First ed.). Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-118-58403-3. OCLC 859168767.
  5. 1 2 Bittner, Maria (1994). Case, scope, and binding. Dordrecht. ISBN 978-94-011-1412-7. OCLC 883392408.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ Bittner, Maria (1998). "Cross-Linguistic Semantics for Questions". Linguistics and Philosophy. 21 (1): 1–82. doi:10.1023/A:1005313305414. ISSN 0165-0157. JSTOR 25001694. S2CID 170704322.
  7. ↑ BITTNER, MARIA (1999). "Concealed Causatives". Natural Language Semantics. 7 (1): 1–78. doi:10.1023/A:1008313608525. ISSN 0925-854X. JSTOR 23748100. S2CID 195226599.
  8. ↑ Bittner, Maria (1988). Canonical and noncanonical argument expressions (Thesis). OCLC 21137749.
  9. ↑ "Maria Bittner - Typology". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2019-03-22.


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