Sigrid Beck

Sigrid Beck
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Tübingen (PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Arnim von Stechow
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics
Sub-discipline	Semantics
Website	Tübingen faculty page

Sigrid Beck is a linguist and professor in the Department of English at the University of Tübingen. She researches semantics, in particular on areas including questions, plurals, and focus.

Biography

Beck earned her PhD in linguistics at the University of Tübingen in 1996 with a dissertation entitled, "Wh-constructions and Transparent Logical Form." She has worked at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Connecticut, Universität Potsdam, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in before taking up her current position at the University of Tübingen.

Awards

In 2022, Beck was elected to the Academia Europaea.

Selected publications

• Beck, Sigrid (1 March 2006). "Intervention Effects Follow from Focus Interpretation*". Natural Language Semantics. 14 (1): 1–56. doi:10.1007/s11050-005-4532-y. ISSN 1572-865X. S2CID 44269046. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Beck, Sigrid (1 January 1996). "Quantified structures as barriers for LF movement". Natural Language Semantics. 4 (1): 1–56. doi:10.1007/BF00263536. ISSN 1572-865X. S2CID 122961166. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Beck, Sigrid; Johnson, Kyle (January 2004). "Double Objects Again". Linguistic Inquiry. 35 (1): 97–123. doi:10.1162/002438904322793356. ISSN 0024-3892. S2CID 18749803. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Beck, Sigrid; Rullmann, Hotze (1 September 1999). "A Flexible Approach to Exhaustivity in Questions". Natural Language Semantics. 7 (3): 249–298. doi:10.1023/A:1008373224343. ISSN 1572-865X. S2CID 118685556. Retrieved 19 May 2023.