Publications on LF-based semantics and GB syntax

Abstracts

Bittner, Maria & Ken Hale. 2000. 'Comparative notes on ergative case systems' pdf.
In R. Pensalfini and N. Richards, eds., Papers on Australian Languages, (MIT Working Papers on Endangered and Less Familiar Languages, Vol. 2), 67-104.

Bittner, Maria. 1999. 'Concealed causatives' pdf
Natural Language Semantics 7:1–78.

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

Bittner, Maria & Ken Hale. 1996. 'Ergativity: Toward a theory of a heterogeneous class' pdf.
Linguistic Inquiry 27:531–604.

Bittner, Maria & Ken Hale. 1996. 'The structural determination of case and agreement' pdf.
Linguistic Inquiry 27:1–68.

Bittner, Maria. 1994. Case, Scope and Binding.
Kluwer, Dordrecht. 202 pages.

Bittner, Maria & Ken Hale. 1994. 'Cross-Linguistic Semantics' pdf
Linguistics and Philosophy 17:53–108

Research support by National Science Foundation

NSF grant BNS-9108381, 9/1991-2/1994, PI: Maria Bittner
'Syntax and Semantics of the Ergative Construction' [project description].
(One of two "companion grants" for a joint project with Ken Hale, MIT).

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