Maria Bittner

Professor of Linguistics
cv, email

Recent work

• Bittner, Maria (Feb. 1, 2012 draft) Temporality: Universals and Variation. Book in progress.
  [Ch. 1–9: hdt1, hdt2, hdt3][English: hdt][Polish][Mandarin: texts][Kalaallisut: texts, mood & evi.]
• Bittner, Maria (2011) Time and modality without tenses or modals. In: Tense across Languages.
• Bittner, Maria (2009) Tense, mood, and centering. Rutgers ms.
• Bittner, Maria (2005). Future discourse in a tenseless language. Journal of Semantics 22.
• more publications on cross-linguistic semantics & pragmatics.
• past research interests: LF-based semantics & GB syntax.

Teaching: Spring 2012

• 16:615:531 Semantics II: Introduction to Dynamic Semantics
  [syll][top 1, PL][top 2:1–11][top 3][top 4][top 5][top 6][top 7]
• 16:615:535 Semantics Seminar: Temporality: Universals and Variation
  [syll][intro][ctr: slides, hdt, UC][tns: slides, hdt, UC][asp: slides, htd][mood: slides, hdt, UC] [tamp: slides, hdt, UC][English][Polish][Mandarin][Kalaallisut]
• past courses.

Text studies

• Kalaallisut: mood & evidentiality (2008)
  A shaman's definition of poetry, more texts
• Mandarin Chinese: glossed & translated texts (2011),
  From Mandarin texts to Update with Centering (2011)

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 6, 2012