Maria Bittner

Professor of Linguistics
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Recent papers

• Bittner, Maria (2009) Tense, mood, and centering. (draft 5/1/09)
• Bittner, Maria. (2008) Counterfactuals as real attitudes (draft 9/11/08). Appendix (draft 9/11/08).
• Bittner, Maria and Naja Trondhjem. (2008) Quantification as reference: Evidence from Q-verbs. In: Quantification: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (L. Matthewson, ed.)
• Bittner, Maria. (2008) Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora. In: Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect (S. 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

• Spring 2009. Semantics 2: Crosslinguistic dynamics
  [syll][top 1][top 2][top 3][top 4][top 5][top 6][top 7][top 8][top 9]
• August 2009. LSA Institute: Crosslinguistic compositional semantics
  [syll][lct 1][lct 2][lct 3]lct 4][lct 5][lct 6]
• 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 4, 2009