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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]
