Sigrid Beck

Publications

2024:

Axel-Tober, K., & Beck, S. (2024) “Interpretive language change under Constant Entailments: Stable common ground updates as catalysts for lexical change”. Glossa, www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/10776/

2023:

Berezovskaya, P., Beck, S., & Hörnig, R. (2023). "Turkish Correlatives in Monolingual Turkish and Bilingual Turkish-German Grammar". Proceedings of TU+8: Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, 30-43. https://doi.org/10.3765/j92h0b81

Beck, S. (2023). “On Old English swa 'so'”. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics, 8(1), 1-42. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5755
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2022:

Tiemann, S., & Beck, S. (2022). "Incrementally interpreting presuppositions." In R. Hörnig, S. von Wietersheim, A. Konietzko, & S. Featherston (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic theory enriched by experimental data. (pp. 45-63). University of Tübingen. http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-75924
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Howell, A., Hohaus, V., Berezovskaya, P., Sachs, K., Braun, J., Durmaz, Ş., & Beck, S. (2022). “(No) variation in the grammar of alternatives”. Linguistic Variation, 22(1), 1-77. https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.19010.how 
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2021:

Beck, S. (2021). "Semantic parameters and universals". In D. Gutzmann, L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullman, T. E. Zimmermann (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118788516.sem010
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Beck, S. (2021). "Multiple events and 'N Preposition N'". In P. Cabredo Hofherr, J. Doetjes (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number (pp. 342-361). OUP. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198795858.013.16
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Beck, S. (2021). "Isomorphic mapping in fictional interpretation". In Emar Maier, A. Stokke, The Language of Fiction (pp. 277-296). OUP. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846376.003.0011 

2020:

Bauer, M., Beck, S., Brockmann, S., Riecker, S., Zirker, A., Bade, N., Dörge, C., & Braun, J. (2020). Linguistics meets literature: More on the grammar of Emily Dickinson. De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110646825
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Beck, S. (2020). “Indeterminate pronouns in Old English: a compositional semantic analysis”. The Journal of Comparative German Linguistics, 23, 203–269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-020-09116-y
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Beck, S. (2020). "Readings of scalar particles: noch/still". Linguistics and Philosophy, 43, 1-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-018-09256-1
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2019:

Patel-Grosz, P., & Beck, S. (2019). "Different again". Semantics and Pragmatics, 12(3), 1-52. https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.12.3

Beck, S., & Tiemann, S. (2019). "Towards a model of incremental composition". In R. Truswell, C. Cummins, C. Heycock, B. Rabern, and H. Rohde (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21 (pp. 143-161). University of Edinburgh. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2018.v21i1.129

2018:

Beck, S., & Reis, M. (2018). "On the form and interpretation of echo wh-questions". Journal of Semantics, 35(3), 369–408. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffy002
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2017:

Bade, N., & Beck, S. (2017). "Lyrical texts as a data source for linguistics." Linguistische Berichte, 251.
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Brockmann, S., Riecker S., Bade, N., Bauer, M., Beck, S., & Zirker, A. (2017). "FictionalAssert and implicatures." In S. Featherston, R. Hörnig, R. Steinberg, B. Umbreit, J. Wallis (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2016: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives. University of Tübingen. http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-19038
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Beck, S. (2017). "An alternative semantic cycle for universal quantifiers." Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics, 23.
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Beck, S. (2017). "More and more different." In N. LaCara, K. Moulton, A.-M. Tessier (Eds.), A Schrift to Fest Kyle Johnson, (pp. 43-46). https://doi.org/10.7275/R57D2S95
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2016:

Beck, S. (2016). "Discourse related readings of scalar particles". In M. Moroney, C. Little, J. Collard &
D. Burgdorf (Eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory, (Vol. 26, pp. 142-165). https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v26i0.3783
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Beck, S. (2016). "Temporal noch/still and further-to readings of German noch". Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 20, 4-25. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2016.v20i0.208 
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2015:

Bauer, M., Bade, N., Beck, S., Dörge, C., von Eckartsberg, B., Niefer, J., Ottschofski, S., & Zirker, A. (2015). "Emily Dickinson’s 'My life had stood a loaded gun' – An interdisciplinary analysis." Journal of Literary Semantics, 44(2), 115-140. https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-2015-0010
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Hertrich, I., Kirsten, M., Tiemann, S., Beck, S., Wühle, A., Ackermann, H., & Rolke, B. (2015). "Context-dependent impact of presuppositions on early magnetic brain responses during speech perception." Brain and Language, 149, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2015.06.005

Bade, N., Bauer, M., Beck, S., Dörge, C., & Zirker, A. (2015). "Ambiguity in Shakespeare's Sonnet 138." In S. Winkler (Ed.), Ambiguity: Language and Communication, (pp.89-109). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110403589
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Beck, S., & von Stechow, A. (2015). "Events, times and worlds - an LF architecture." In C. Fortmann, A. Lübbe, & I. Rapp (Eds.), Situationsargumente im Nominalbereich (pp. 13-46). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110432893
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Tiemann, S., Kirsten, M., Beck, S., Hertrich, I., & Rolke, B. (2015): "Presupposition processing and accommodation: an experiment on wieder ('again') and consequences for other triggers." In F. Schwarz (Ed.), Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions (pp. 39-65). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07980-6_2

Beck, S., & Gergel, R., (2015). "The diachronic semantics of English again." Natural Language Semantics, 23(3), 157-203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-015-9111-2
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2014:

Gergel, R., & Beck, S. (2014). "Early Modern English again: a corpus study and semantic analysis." English Language & Linguistics, 19(1), 27-47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674314000355 
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Beck, S. (2014) "Focus sensitive operators". In C. Féry, & S. Ishihara (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure, (pp. 227-250). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.007

Hohaus, V., Tiemann, S., & Beck, S. (2014). "Acquisition of comparison constructions". Language Acquisition, 21(3), 215-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2014.892914

Beck, S., & Gergel, R. (2014). "Contrasting English and German grammar. An introduction to syntax and semantics". De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346190

Bauer, M., & Beck, S. (2014). "On the meaning of fictional texts". In D. Gutzmann, J. Köpping & C. Meier (Eds.), Approaches to Meaning, (pp. 250-275). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004279377_012
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Beck, S., (2014). "Plural predication and quantified 'than'-clauses". In L. Crnič & U. Sauerland (Eds.), The Art & Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim (Vol. 1, pp. 91-115). MITWPL.
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2013:

Beck, S. (2013). "Lucinda driving too fast again—the scalar properties of ambiguous than-clauses". Journal of Semantics, 30(1), 1-63. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffr011
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2012:

Beck, S. (2012). "Pluractional comparisons". Linguistics and Philosophy, 35, 57-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-012-9111-3

Beck, S. (2012). "DegP scope revisited". Natural Language Semantics, 20, 227-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-012-9081-6

Beck, S. (2012). "Konso pluractional verbal morphology and plural operators". In E. Bogal-Allbritten (Ed.), SULA 6: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on the Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 6) and SULA-Bar (pp. 285-302). CreateSpace.

Beck, S., Hohaus, V., & Tiemann, S. (2012). "A note on phrasal comparatives". In A. Chereches (Ed.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (Vol. 22, pp. 146-165). https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v22i0.2654 
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Tiemann, S., Hohaus, V., & Beck, S. (2012). "Crosslinguistic variation in comparison: Evidence from child language acquisition". In B. Stolterfoht & S. Featherston (Eds.), Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies of Meaning and Structure, (pp. 115-146). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614510888.115
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2011:

Beck, S. (2011). "Comparison constructions". C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger, & P. Portner (Eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning (Vol. 2, pp. 1341-1389). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255072.1341
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Tiemann, S., Schmid, M., Bade, N., Rolke, B., Hertrich, I., Ackermann, H., Knapp, J., & Beck, S. (2011). "Psycholinguistic evidence for presuppositions: On-line and off-line data". In I. Reich, E. Horch, & D. Pauly (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 15 (pp. 581-596).

2010:

Beck, S. (2010). "Quantifiers in than-clauses". Semantics and Pragmatics, 3, 1-72. https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.3.1 
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Bauer, M., & Beck, S. (2010) "Interpretation: Local composition and textual meaning". In M. Albl-Mikasa, S. Braun, & S. Kalina (Eds.), Dimensionen der Zweitsprachenforschung/Dimensions of Second Language Research: Festschrift for Kurt Kohn, (pp. 289-300). Narr.
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Bauer, M., Bauer, M., Beck, S., Dörge, C., von Eckartsberg, B., Meder, M., Riedel, K., Zimmermann, J., & Zirker, A., (2010) "»The Two Coeval Come«: Emily Dickinson and ambiguity". Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 40, 98-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03379837

Tiemann, S., Hohaus, V., & Beck, S. (2010). "German and English comparatives are different: Evidence from child language acquisition". Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2010, 254-258.

Beck, S. (2010). "Seuren/Rullmann ambiguities as plural comparisons". In N. Li & D. Lutz (Eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (Vol. 20, pp. 428-450). https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v20i0.2572 
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2009:

Beck, S., & Vasishth, S. (2009). "Multiple focus". Journal of Semantics, 26(2), 159-184. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffp001
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Beck, S., Berezovskaya, P., & Pflugfelder, K. (2009). "The use of again in 19th Century vs. Present Day English". Syntax, 12(3), 193-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9612.2009.00124.x
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Beck, S. (2009). "Positively comparative". Snippets, 20 [Special Issue], 4-6.
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Beck, S., Krasikova, S., Fleischer, D., Gergel, R., Savelsberg, C., Vanderelst, J., & Villalta, E. (2009) "Crosslinguistic variation in comparison constructions". Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 9(1), 1-66. https://doi.org/10.1075/livy.9.01bec
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2008:

Beck, S., Crnic, L., & Götz, T. (2008). "Ruin and restitution". Natural Language
Semantics, 16(2), 111-114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-008-9026-2
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2007:
Beck, S. (2007). "Quantifier dependent readings of anaphoric presuppositions". In U. Sauerland & P. Stateva (Eds.), Presupposition and implicature in compositional semantics, (pp. 12-33). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210752_2
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Beck, S. (2007). "The grammar of focus evaluation". In U. Sauerland & H.-M. Gärtner (Eds.), Interfaces+Recursion=Language?: Chomsky's Minimalism and the view from syntax and semantics, (pp. 255-280). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207552.255

Beck, S., & von Stechow, A. (2007) "Pluractional adverbials". Journal of Semantics, 24(3), 215-254. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffm003

2006:

Beck, S. (2006). "Intervention effects follow from focus interpretation". Natural Language Semantics, 14, 1-56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-005-4532-y

Beck, S. (2006). "Focus on again". Linguistics and Philosophy, 29, 277-314. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-005-5794-z
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Beck, S., & von Stechow, A. (2006) "Dog after dog revisited". In C. Ebert & C. Endriss, Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10, (pp. 43-54). https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.44.2006.299 
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Beck, S. (2006) "Alternatives to again". In S. Herdan & M. Rodríguez-Mondoñedo (Eds.), Linguistics in Storrs, (pp. 27-56). CWPL.

Beck, S. & Kim, SS. (2006). "Intervention effects in alternative questions". The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 9, 165-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-006-9005-2
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2005:

Beck, S. (2005). "There and back again: A semantic analysis". Journal of Semantics, 22(1), 3-51. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffh016
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Beck, S. (2005). "A second time and again". In P. Dekker and M. Franke (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, (pp. 3-8).
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2004:

Beck, Sigrid and Kyle Johnson: "Double Objects Again". Linguistic Inquiry 35,
97-124.

"A Semantic Explanation for Intervention Effects". Proceedings von 'Sinn und Bedeutung' 8.
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Beck, Sigrid, Toshiko Oda and Koji Sugisaki: "Parametric Variation in the Semantics of Comparison: Japanese vs. English". Journal of East Asian Linguistics 13, 289-344.
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2003:

Beck, Sigrid, Toshiko Oda and Koji Sugisaki: "Comparative Constructions in Japanese vs. English". Proceedings of NELS 33.

2002: 
Beck, Sigrid and Yael Sharvit: "Pluralities of Questions". Journal of Semantics 19, 105-157.
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2001: 
Beck, Sigrid and William Snyder: "Complex Predicates and goal PP's: Evidence for a Semantic Parameter". In: A. H.-J. Do, L. Dominguez and A. Johansen (eds.): Proceedings of the 25th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Press, 114-122.
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Beck, Sigrid and William Snyder: "The Resultative Parameter and Restitutive Again". In: Caroline Fery and Wolfgang Sternefeld (eds.): Audiatur Vox Sapientiae. A Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 48-69.
"Reciprocals are Definites". Natural Language Semantics 9, 69-138.
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Sharvit, Yael and Sigrid Beck: "Subquestions and Quantificational Variability Effects". Proceedings of WCCFL 20, 510-523.
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2000:

Beck, Sigrid: "The Semantics of different: Comparison Operator and Relational Adjective". Linguistics and Philosophy 23, 101-139.
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Beck, Sigrid and Stephen Berman: "Wh-Scope marking: Direct vs. Indirect Dependency". In: Uli Lutz , Gereon Mueller & Arnim von Stechow (eds.): Wh-Scope Marking. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 17-44.

"Exceptions in Relational Plurals". SALT 10 proceedings, Cornell University, 1-16.
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Beck, Sigrid and Uli Sauerland: "Cumulation is needed: a reply to Winter (2000)". Natural Language Semantics 8, 349-371.
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"Contextual Restrictions on Plural Operators". In C. Boeckx, L. Marti and D. Wharram (eds.), The Syntax-Semantics Interface, UConn Working Papers in Linguistics , Vol XI, 1-17.

1999:
Beck, Sigrid & Hotze Rullmann: "A Flexible Approach to Exhaustivity in Questions". Natural Language Semantics 7, 249-298.
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"Plural Predication and Partitional Discourses". In Paul Dekker (ed.): Proceedings of the 12th Amsterdam Colloquium, 67-72.

Beck, S.: "Reciprocals and Cumulation". Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 9 , Cornell University.
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1998:
Review von Ljiljana Progovac: "Negative and Positive Polarity - A Binding Approach". Linguistische Berichte 175, 425-429.

Rullmann, Hotze & Beck, Sigrid: "Presupposition Projection and the Interpretation of which-Questions". SALT 8 Proceedings, Cornell Unversity, 215-232.
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Beck, Sigrid: "NP Dependent Readings of different". SALT 8 Proceedings, Cornell Unversity, 19-35.
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Rullmann, Hotze & Sigrid Beck: "Reconstruction and the Interpretation of which-phrases". In: Graham Katz, Shin-Sook Kim and Heike Winhart (eds.): Reconstruction. Proceedings of the 1997 Tübingen Workshop.
Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340, Bericht 127, 223-256.

1997:
"On the Semantics of Comparative Conditionals". Linguistics and Philosophy 20, 229-271.

Beck, Sigrid & Shin-Sook Kim: "On Wh- and Operator Scope in Korean". Journal of East Asian Linguistics 339-384.
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1996:
Beck, Sigrid: "Quantified Structures as Barriers for LF Movement". Natural Language Semantics 4, 1-56.
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"Comparative Conditionals". In Fritz Hamm, Joachim Kolb & Arnim von Stechow (eds.): Blaubeuren Papers. Proceedings of the Symposium "Recent developments in natural language semantics". SfS-report (Arbeitspapiere des Seminars für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen).

"The Comparative in Comparative Conditionals". In: Doron, Edit & Wintner, Shuly (eds.): IATL 3. The Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference Tel Aviv University 1995 and of the Workshop on Discourse The Technion 1996, 1-24.

"Wh-constructions and transparent Logical Form". PhD dissertation, Universität Tübingen. SfS-report (Arbeitspapiere des Seminars für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen).
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Beck, Sigrid & Hotze Rullmann: "Degree Questions, Maximal Informativeness and Exhaustivity". In: Dekker, Paul & Stokhof, Martin (eds.): Proceedings of the 10th Amsterdam Colloquium, 73-92.
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Beck, Sigrid & Stephen Berman: "Wh-Scope Marking: Direct vs. Indirect Dependency". In: Uli Lutz & Gereon Müller (eds.): Papers on Wh-Scope Marking. Papers from the Workshop The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Scope Marking, Universität Tübingen. Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340 (Universität Stuttgart/Universität Tübingen) Nr. 76.

1995:

"Negative Islands and Reconstruction". In: Lutz, U. & Pafel, J. (eds.): Extraction and Extraposition in German. Amsterdam, Benjamins.

1993:

"Negativinseln". In: Extraktion im Deutschen I by Franz-Josef d'Avis, Sigrid Beck, Uli Lutz, Jürgen Pafel & Susanne Trissler (eds.), 99-133. Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340 (Universität Stuttgart/Universität Tübingen) Nr. 34. "Interventionseffekte für LF-Bewegung". Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340 (Universität Stuttgart/ Universität Tübingen) Nr. 39.