Maria Bittner

Professor of Linguistics
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Recent papers

• Bittner, Maria (2010) Conditionals as attitude reports. (draft 1/6/2010)
• Bittner, Maria (t.a.) Tense, mood, and centering. (draft 9/30/2009). To appear in: Tense across Languages (Renate Musan & Monika Rathert, eds.)
• Bittner, Maria & 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 Cross-linguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect (Susan Rothstein, ed.)
• 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

• 16:615:531 Semantics II (Spring 2010): Dynamics of English discourse
  [syll][top 1, PL][top 2:1–8, DPL][top 3][top 4, PlL][top 5, DPlL][top 6, frgm 1][top 7, frgm 2]
• past courses.

Research on incremental interpretation

• Kalaallisut: mood & evidentiality (2008)
  new text (12/26/09): A shaman's definition of poetry, more texts
• Mohawk: incremental interpretation of a myth (2005)
• Yukatek: incremental interpretation of a myth (2005)

Pictures from Greenland (Ukkusissat, 1982-4)

• QuickTime slides (NB! large files)
  [seasons 2.2MB][xmas 2MB][picnic 2.3MB][school 2MB][mts 2.3MB][ice 2.3MB, notes pdf]

Last revised: February 8, 2010