Maria Bittner

Professor of Linguistics
curriculum vitae, email

Recent papers

• Bittner, Maria. (2008) Conditional prospects in a tenseless language. DGfS workshop on Tense across Languages, Bamberg University, Germany. [handout]
• Bittner, Maria. (2008) Notes on evidentiality and mood. (data & analysis)
• Bittner, Maria and Naja Trondhjem. (2008) Quantification as reference: Evidence from Q-verbs. In: Quantification: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Lisa Matthewson, ed.).
• Bittner, Maria. (2008) Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora. In: Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect (Susan Rothstein, ed.)
• Bittner, Maria. (2007). Online update: Temporal, modal, and de se anaphora in polysynthetic discourse. In: Direct Compositionality (Chris Barker and Pauline Jacobson, eds.).
• Bittner, Maria. (2005). Future discourse in a tenseless language. Journal of Semantics 22:339–87.
• more publications on cross-linguistic semantics & pragmatics.
• past research interests: LF-based semantics & GB syntax.

Teaching

• Fall 2008. Semantics Seminar: Dynamics of speech acts
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• past courses.

Research on incremental interpretation

• Kalaallisut: mood & evidentiality (2008)
  texts, incremental interpretation of text 1, text 2, text 3, text 4 (2008)
• Mohawk: incremental interpretation of a myth (2005)
• Yukatek: incremental interpretation of a myth (2005)

Other wilderness adventures

• QuickTime slides (NB! large files) from Greenland,Uummannaq district, Ukkusissat, 1982-4
  [seasons 2.2MB][xmas 2MB][picnic 2.3MB][school 2MB][mts 2.3MB][ice 2.3MB, notes pdf]
• QuickTime slides (NB! large files) from Weminuche Wilderness, August 2003
  [Thirtymile CG to West Ute Lake, 2.3MB][Hunter Lake to South River Peak, 1.6MB]

Last revised: May 7, 2008