Maria Bittner
Professor Emerita, Rutgers Linguistics
Interests
semantics, pragmatics, formal logic
Kalaallisut and other languages
Books
2014. Temporality. Wiley-Blackwell.
1994. Case, Scope and Binding. Springer.
Summer schools
2016. Dynamic semantics. North American Summer School on Logic, Languages and Information (NASSLLI 2016).
2009. Crosslinguistic compositional semantics. Linguistic Society of America Institute (LSA 2009).
2006. Temporal anaphora in tenseless languages. European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2006).
1997. Semantic issues in ergative languages. Linguistic Society of America Institute (LSA 1997).
1994. Syntax and semantics of the ergative construction (with Ken Hale). Australian Linguistic Institute (ALI 1994).
National Science Foundation grants
NSF grant BCS-9905600. Temporal Anaphora in Dynamic Cross-Linguistic Semantics. September 1, 1999 – August 31, 2002. Principal Investigator.
NSF grant BNS-9108381. Syntax and Semantics of the Ergative Construction. September 1, 1991 – February 28, 1994. One of two "companion grants" for a joint project with Ken Hale, MIT.
Fieldwork in Greenland 1982–84
Ukkusissat: seasons, backpacking, school, Christmas, New Year.
Ukkusissarmiut ("Living in Ukkusissat"). Stories and drawings by school children.
Maria Bittner. ©Maria Bittner 2017. mbittner (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu