Sigrid Beck
Publications
To appear:
Griffiths, J. & Beck, S. Morphosyntactic cues of non-canonical questions: wh-in-situ questions. To appear in N. Dehé, R. Eckardt & G. Walkden (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Non-Canonical Questions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf (of preliminary version)
2025:
Beck, S. 2025. Evidence for a generalized quantifier semantics in the interpretation of German weak personal pronouns—a response to Elbourne (2021). Natural Language Semantics 33. 407–432. link
2024:
Schlotterbeck, F. & Berezovskaya, P. & Beck, S. 2024. Age stratification in collective readings of Present Day English every-DPs. Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium. 323–329. link
Axel-Tober, K. & Beck, S. 2024. Interpretive language change under Constant Entailments: Stable common ground updates as catalysts for lexical change. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 9(1). 1–36. link
2023:
Berezovskaya, P. & Beck, S. & Hörnig, R. 2023. Turkish correlatives in monolingual Turkish and bilingual Turkish-German grammar. Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic 8. 30–43. link
Beck, S. 2023. On Old English swa ‘so’. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 8(1). 1–42. link
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, 45–63. Tübingen: University of Tübingen. link pdf (of preliminary version)
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. link pdf (of preliminary version)
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, 1–36. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2021. Multiple events and ‘N Preposition N’. In P. Cabredo Hofherr & J. Doetjes (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number, 342–361. Oxford: Oxford University Press. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2021. Isomorphic mapping in fictional interpretation. In E. Maier & A. Stokke (eds.), The Language of Fiction, 277–296. Oxford: Oxford University Press. link
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. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2020. Indeterminate pronouns in Old English: A compositional semantic analysis. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 23. 203–269. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2020. Readings of scalar particles: noch/still. Linguistics and Philosophy 43. 1–67. link pdf (of preliminary version)
2019:
Patel-Grosz, P. & Beck, S. 2019. Different again. Semantics and Pragmatics 12(3). 1–56. link
Beck, S. & Tiemann, S. 2019. Towards a model of incremental composition. In R. Truswell, C. Cummins, C. Heycock, B. Rabern & H. Rohde (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21, 143–161. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. link
2018:
Beck, S. & Reis, M. 2018. On the form and interpretation of echo wh-questions. Journal of Semantics 35(3). 369–408. link pdf (of preliminary version)
2017:
Bade, N., & Beck, S. 2017. Lyrical texts as a data source for linguistics. Linguistische Berichte. 317–356. pdf (of preliminary version)
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.Tübingen: University of Tübingen. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2017. An alternative semantic cycle for universal quantifiers. Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics 23. 5–13. link
Beck, S. 2017. More and more different. In N. LaCara, K. Moulton & A.-M. Tessier (eds.), A Schrift to Fest Kyle Johnson, 43–46. Amherst: UMass. link pdf (of preliminary version)
2016:
Beck, S. 2016. Discourse related readings of scalar particles. In M. Moroney, C. Little, J. Collard & D. Burgdorf (eds.), Proceedings of SALT 26, 142–165. Linguistic Society of America. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2016. Temporal noch/still and further-to readings of German noch. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20. 4–25. link pdf (of preliminary version)
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. link pdf (of preliminary version)
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. link
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, 89–109. Berlin: De Gruyter. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. & von Stechow, A. 2015. Events, times and worlds – an LF architecture. In C. Fortmann, A. Lübbe, & I. Rapp (eds.), Situationsargumente im Nominalbereich,13–46. Berlin: De Gruyter. link pdf (of preliminary version)
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, 39–65. Cham: Springer. link
Beck, S. & Gergel, R. 2015. The diachronic semantics of English again. Natural Language Semantics 23(3). 157–203. link pdf (of preliminary version)
2014:
Gergel, R. & Beck, S. 2014. Early Modern English again: A corpus study and semantic analysis. English Language & Linguistics 19(1), 27–47. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2014. Focus sensitive operators. In C. Féry & S. Ishihara (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure, 227–250. Oxford: Oxford University Press. link
Hohaus, V. & Tiemann, S. & Beck, S. 2014. Acquisition of comparison constructions. Language Acquisition 21(3). 215–249. link
Beck, S. & Gergel, R. 2014. Contrasting English and German grammar. An introduction to syntax and semantics. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. link
Bauer, M. & Beck, S. 2014. On the meaning of fictional texts. In D. Gutzmann, J. Köpping & C. Meier (eds.), Approaches to Meaning, 250–275. Leiden: Brill. link pdf (of preliminary version)
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, 91–115. Cambridge: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. pdf (of preliminary version)
2013:
Beck, S. 2013. Lucinda driving too fast again—the scalar properties of ambiguous than-clauses. Journal of Semantics 30(1). 1–63. link pdf (of preliminary version)
2012:
Beck, S. 2012. Pluractional comparisons. Linguistics and Philosophy 35. 57–110. link
Beck, S. 2012. DegP scope revisited. Natural Language Semantics 20. 227–272. link
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 and SULA-Bar, 285–302. Amherst: GLSA.
Beck, S. & Hohaus, V. & Tiemann, S. 2012. A note on phrasal comparatives. In A. Chereches (ed.), Proceedings of SALT 22, 146–165. link pdf (of preliminary version)
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, 115–146. Berlin: De Gruyter. link pdf (of preliminary version)
2011:
Beck, S. 2011. Comparison constructions. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger & P. Portner (eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, 1341–1390. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. link pdf (of preliminary version)
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 und Bedeutung 15, 581–595. Saarbrücken: Universaar – Saarland University Press. link
2010:
Beck, S. 2010. Quantifiers in than-clauses. Semantics and Pragmatics 3. 1–72. link pdf (of preliminary version)
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. link
Tiemann, S. & Hohaus, V. & Beck, S. 2010. German and English comparatives are different: Evidence from child language acquisition. Pre-Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2010. 254–258.
Beck, S. 2010. Seuren/Rullmann ambiguities as plural comparisons. In N. Li & D. Lutz (eds.), Proceedings of SALT 20, 428–450. link pdf (of preliminary version)
2009:
Beck, S. & Vasishth, S. 2009. Multiple focus. Journal of Semantics 26(2). 159–184. link pdf (of preliminary version)
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, 289–300. Tübingen: Narr. pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. & Berezovskaya, P. & Pflugfelder, K. 2009. The use of again in 19th-Century English versus Present-Day English. Syntax 12(3). 193–214. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2009. Positively comparative. Snippets 20 [Special Issue]. 4–6. pdf (of preliminary version)
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. link pdf (of preliminary version)
2008:
Beck, S. & Crnic, L. & Götz, T. 2008. Ruin and restitution. Natural Language Semantics 16(2). 111–114. link pdf (of preliminary version)
2007:
Beck, S. 2007. Quantifier dependent readings of anaphoric presuppositions. In U. Sauerland & P. Stateva (eds.), Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics, 12–33. London: Palgrave Macmillan. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2007. The grammar of focus interpretation. In U. Sauerland & H.-M. Gärtner (eds.), Interfaces+Recursion=Language?: Chomsky's Minimalism and the View from Syntax-Semantics, 255–280. Berlin: De Gruyter. link
Beck, S. & von Stechow, A. 2007. Pluractional adverbials. Journal of Semantics 24(3). 215–254. link
2006:
Beck, S. 2006. Intervention effects follow from focus interpretation. Natural Language Semantics 14. 1–56. link
Beck, S. 2006. Focus on again. Linguistics and Philosophy 29. 277–314. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. & von Stechow, A. 2006. Dog after dog revisited. In C. Ebert & C. Endriss (eds.), Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10, 43–54. Berlin: ZAS Papers in Linguistics. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2006. Alternatives to again. In S. Herdan & M. Rodríguez-Mondoñedo (eds.), Linguistics in Storrs. CWPL.
Beck, S. & Kim, SS. 2006. Intervention effects in alternative questions. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 9. 165–208. link pdf (of preliminary version)
2005:
Beck, S. 2005. There and back again: A semantic analysis. Journal of Semantics 22(1). 3–51. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2005. A second time and again. In P. Dekker & M. Franke (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, 3–8. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (University of Amsterdam). pdf (of preliminary version)
2004:
Beck, S. & Johnson K. 2004. Double objects again. Linguistic Inquiry 35. 97–123.
Beck, S. 2004. A semantic explanation for intervention effects. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 8. 25–50. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. & Oda, T. & Sugisaki K. 2004. Parametric variation in the semantics of comparison: Japanese vs. English. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 13, 289–344. pdf (of preliminary version)
2003:
Beck, S. & Oda, T. & Sugisaki, K. 2003. Comparative constructions in Japanese versus English. Proceedings of NELS 33.
2002:
Beck, S. & Sharvit Y. 2002. Pluralities of questions. Journal of Semantics 19(2). 105–157. link pdf (of preliminary version)
2001:
Beck, S. & Snyder, W. 2001. Complex predicates and goal PP's: Evidence for a semantic parameter. In A. H.-J. Do, L. Dominguez & A. Johansen (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Boston University Conference on Language Development,114–122. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. & Snyder, W. 2001. The resultative parameter and restitutive again. In C. Fery & W. Sternefeld (eds.), Audiatur Vox Sapientiae: A Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow, 48–69. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
Beck, S. 2001. Reciprocals are definites. Natural Language Semantics 9(1). 69–138. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Sharvit, Y. & Beck, S. 2001. Subquestions and quantificational variability effects. Proceedings of WCCFL 20, 510–523. pdf (of preliminary version)
2000:
Beck, S. 2000. The semantics of different: Comparison operator and relational adjective. Linguistics and Philosophy 23. 101–139. pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. & Berman S. 2000. Wh-scope marking: Direct vs. indirect dependency. In U. Lutz, G. Mueller & A. von Stechow (eds.), Wh-Scope Marking, 17–44. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Beck, S. Exceptions in relational plurals. In B. Jackson & T. Matthews (eds.), Proceedings of SALT 10, 1–16. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. & Sauerland U. 2000. Cumulation is needed: A reply to Winter (2000). Natural Language Semantics 8. 349–371. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 2000. Contextual restrictions on plural operators. In C. Boeckx, L. Marti & D. Wharram (eds.), The Syntax-Semantics Interface, 1–17. UConn Working Papers in Linguistics.
1999:
Beck, S. & Rullmann H. 1999. A flexible approach to exhaustivity in questions. Natural Language Semantics 7. 249–298. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 1999. Plural predication and partitional discourses. In Paul Dekker (ed.), Proceedings of the 12th Amsterdam Colloquium, 67–72. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (University of Amsterdam).
Beck, S. 1999. Reciprocals and cumulation. In T. Matthews & D. Strolovitch (eds.), Proceedings of SALT 9, 16–33. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. pdf (of preliminary version)
1998:
Beck, S. 1998. Review of Ljiljana Progovac, Negative and Positive Polarity - A Binding Approach. In G. Grewendorf & A. von Stechow (eds.), Linguistische Berichte 175, 425–429. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
Rullmann, H. & Beck, S. 1998. Presupposition projection and the interpretation of which-questions. In D. Strolovitch & A. Lawson (eds.), Proceedings of SALT 8, 215–232. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 1998. NP dependent readings of different. In D. Strolovitch & A. Lawson (eds.), Proceedings of SALT 8, 19–35. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. pdf (of preliminary version)
Rullmann, H. & Beck, S. 1998. Reconstruction and the interpretation of which-phrases. In G. Katz, S.-S. Kim and H. Winhart (eds.), Reconstruction: Proceedings of the 1997 Tübingen Workshop, 223–256. Tübingen/Stuttgart: Universities of Tübingen and Stuttgart.
1997:
Beck, S. 1997. On the semantics of comparative conditionals. Linguistics and Philosophy 20, 229–271.
Beck, S. & Kim, S.-S. 1997. On Wh- and operator scope in Korean. Journal of East Asian Linguistics. 339-384. pdf (of preliminary version)
1996:
Beck, S. 1996. Quantified structures as barriers for LF movement. Natural Language Semantics 4(1). 1–56. link pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. 1996. Comparative conditionals. In F. Hamm, J. Kolb & A. von Stechow (eds.), The Blaubeuren Papers: Proceedings of the Symposium ‘Recent developments in natural language semantics’. Tübingen: University of Tübingen.
Beck, S. 1996. The comparative in comparative conditionals. In E. Doron & S. Wintner (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.
Beck, S. 1996. Wh-constructions and transparent Logical Form. Tübingen: University of Tübingen. (PhD dissertation) pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. & Rullmann H. 1996. Degree questions, maximal informativeness and exhaustivity. In P. Dekker & M. Stokhof (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Amsterdam Colloquium, 73–92. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (University of Amsterdam). pdf (of preliminary version)
Beck, S. & Berman S. 1996. Wh-scope marking: Direct vs. indirect dependency. In U. Lutz & G. Müller (eds.), Papers on Wh-Scope Marking. Papers from the Workshop The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Scope Marking. (Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340, Universität Stuttgart/Universität Tübingen, Nr. 76)
1995:
Beck, S. 1995. Negative islands and reconstruction. In U. Lutz & J. Pafel (eds.), On Extraction and Extraposition in German, 121–144. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. link
1993:
Beck, S. 1993. Negativinseln. In F.-J. d'Avis, S. Beck, U. Lutz, J. Pafel & S. Trissler (eds.), Extraktion im Deutschen I, 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.)