Maria Bittner is Professor Emerita in Linguistics at

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

. She is a fieldworker, semanticist, and logician whose work has focused on tense and cross-linguistic typology. She is best known for her descriptive and theoretical work on the Greenlandic language Kalaallisut, for which she has done some text documentation. She has long combined linguistic

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, and to analyze her data she developed a compositional dynamic update logic, building on DRT and Centering Theory, but with a novel architecture. She has also worked on the phenomena of case, questions, and causatives. Bittner received her PhD from the

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in 1988 and spent 30 years at Rutgers University before retiring in 2018.

Publications (selected)

* Bittner, Maria. 1994. ''Case, scope, and binding''. Springer. * Bittner, Maria. 2014. ''Temporality''. Wiley-Blackwell.

References

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