Publications on cross-linguistic semantics & pragmatics

Bittner, Maria and Naja Trondhjem (2008) Quantification as reference: Evidence from Q-verbs.
In: Quantification: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Lisa Matthewson, ed.), Chap. 2, pp. 7–66. Emerald, Amsterdam.

Bittner, Maria (2008) Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora.
In: Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect (Susan Rothstein, ed.), Chap. 11, pp. 349 – 385. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

Bittner, Maria (2007) Online update: Temporal, modal and de se anaphora in polysynthetic discourse.
In: Direct Compositionality (Chris Barker and Pauline Jacobson, eds.), Chap. 11, pp. 363-404. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Bittner, Maria (2006) Ontology for human talk and thought (not robotics).
Theoretical Linguistics 32:47–56.

Bittner, Maria (2005) Future discourse in a tenseless language.
Journal of Semantics 22:339–87.

Bittner, Maria (2003) Word order and incremental update.
CLS 39-1, pp. 634-64. Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago.

Bittner, Maria (2001a) Topical referents for individuals and possibilities.
In: Proceedings from SALT XI (Rachel Hastings et al., eds.), pp. 36-55. CLC, Ithaca.

Bittner, Maria (2001b) Surface composition as bridging.
Journal of Semantics 18:127–177.

Bittner, Maria (1999) Concealed causatives.
Natural Language Semantics 7:1–78.

Bittner, Maria (1998) Cross-linguistic semantics for questions.
Linguistics and Philosophy 21:1–82.

Bittner, Maria (1995) Quantification in Eskimo: A challenge for compositional semantics.
In: Quantification in Natural Languages.(Emmon Bach et al., eds.), pp. 59–80. Kluwer, Dordrecht.

Bittner, Maria and Ken Hale (1995) Remarks on definiteness in Warlpiri.
In: Quantification in Natural Languages.(Emmon Bach et al., eds.), pp. 81–106. Kluwer, Dordrecht.

Bittner, Maria (1994) Cross-linguistic Semantics.
Linguistics and Philosophy 17:53–108.

Bittner, Maria (1987) On the semantics of the Greenlandic antipassive and related constructions.
International Journal of American Linguistics 53:194–231.

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