Maria Bittner Explained

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. She has also worked on the phenomena of case,^[4] questions,^[5] and causatives.^[6]

Bittner received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988^[7] and spent 30 years at Rutgers University before retiring in 2018.^[8]

Publications (selected)

• Bittner, Maria. 1994. Case, scope, and binding. Springer.
• Bittner, Maria. 2014. Temporality. Wiley-Blackwell. ^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Emerita/-us Faculty . ling.rutgers.edu . 22 June 2019.
2. Web site: Maria Bittner - Google Scholar Citations. 2019-03-29. scholar.google.com.
3. Web site: Maria Bittner - Kalaallisut . 2022-03-11 . sites.google.com . en-US.
4. Book: Bittner, Maria . Case, scope, and binding . 1994 . 978-94-011-1412-7 . Dordrecht . 883392408.
5. Bittner . Maria . 1998 . Cross-Linguistic Semantics for Questions . Linguistics and Philosophy . 21 . 1 . 1–82 . 10.1023/A:1005313305414 . 25001694 . 170704322 . 0165-0157.
6. BITTNER . MARIA . Concealed Causatives . 1999 . Natural Language Semantics . 7 . 1 . 1–78 . 10.1023/A:1008313608525 . 23748100 . 195226599 . 0925-854X.
7. Canonical and noncanonical argument expressions. 1988. English. Maria. Bittner. 21137749 .
8. Web site: Maria Bittner - Typology. sites.google.com. 2019-03-22.
9. Book: Bittner, Maria. Temporality : universals and variation. Wiley-Blackwell. 2014. 978-1-118-58403-3. First. Chichester, West Sussex, UK. English. 859168767.