Maria Bittner

Maria Bittner is Professor Emerita in Linguistics at Rutgers University.^[1]

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,^[2] for which she has done some text documentation.^[3] She has long combined linguistic fieldwork, and to analyze her data she developed a compositional dynamic update logic, building on DRT and Centering Theory, but with a novel architecture.^[4] She has also worked on the phenomena of case,^[5] questions,^[6] and causatives.^[7]

Bittner received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988^[8] and spent 30 years at Rutgers University before retiring in 2018.^[9]

Publications (selected)

• Bittner, Maria. 1994. Case, scope, and binding. Springer. ISBN 978-94-011-1412-7^[5]
• Bittner, Maria. 2014. Temporality. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1405190398^[4]