Sigrid Beck
German linguist
Sigrid Beck is a linguist and Chair 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 held positions at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Connecticut, Universität Potsdam, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before taking up, in 2005, a Chair Professorship 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.
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