Sigrid Beck - Papers

Publications:

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.

1995:

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

1996:

"Quantified Structures as Barriers for LF-movement". Natural Language Semantics 4, 1-56.

"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).

Beck, Sigrid & Hotze Rullmann: "Degree Questions, Maximal Informativeness and Exhaustivity". In: Dekker, Paul & Stokhof, Martin (eds.): Proceedings of the 10th Amsterdam Colloquium, 73-92.

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.

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.

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.

"NP Dependent Readings of different". SALT 8 Proceedings, Cornell Unversity, 19-35.

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.

1999:

Beck, Sigrid & Hotze Rullmann: "A Flexible Approach to Exhaustivity in
Questions". Natural Language Semantics 7, 249-298.

"Plural Predication and Partitional Discourses". In Paul Dekker (ed.): Proceedings of the 12th Amsterdam Colloquium, 67-72.

"Reciprocals and Cumulation". SALT 9 Proceedings, Cornell University.

2000:

"The Semantics of different: Comparison Operator and Relational Adjective". Linguistics and Philosophy 23, 101-139.

"Star Operators. Episode 1: Defense of the Double Star". In Kiyomi Kusumoto and Elisabeth Villalta (eds): UMass Occasional Papers in Linguistics 23: Issues in Semantics.Amherst, MA: GLSA, 1-23.

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.

Beck, Sigrid and Uli Sauerland: "Cumulation is needed: a reply to Winter (2000)". Natural Language Semantics 8, 349-371.

"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.

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.

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.

Sharvit, Yael and Sigrid Beck: "Subquestions and Quantificational Variability Effects". Proceedings of WCCFL 20, 510-523.

2002:

Beck, Sigrid and Yael Sharvit: "Pluralities of Questions". Journal of Semantics 19, 105-157.

2003:

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

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.

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.

2005:

"There and Back Again: A Semantic Analysis". Journal of Semantics 22, 3-51.

"A Second Time and Again". Proceedings des Amsterdam Colloquium 2005.

2006:

"Intervention Effects Follow from Focus Interpretation". Natural Language
Semantics 14, 1-56.

"Positively Comparative". At:
http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/40-60-puzzles-for-krifka/
Edited by Hans-Martin Gaertner, Sigrid Beck, Regine Eckart, Renate Musan & Barbara Stiebels.

"Focus on Again". Linguistics and Philosphy 29, 277-314.

"Dog after Dog Revisited". Sigrid Beck & Arnim von Stechow. In the
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 10.

"Alternatives to Again". In Simona Herdan et al. (eds): University of Connecticut Working Papers.

Beck, Sigrid and Shin-Sook Kim: "Intervention Effects in Alternative Questions". Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 9, 165-208.

2007:

"Quantifier Dependent Readings of Anaphoric Presuppositions". In Sauerland, Uli & Penka Stateva (eds.): Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics. Palgrave.

"The Grammar of Focus Evaluation". In Uli Sauerland and Hans-Martin Gärtnrt (eds), 'Interfaces+Recursion=Language'? Chomsky's Minimalism and the View from Syntax and Semantics.

Sigrid Beck & Arnim von Stechow: "Pluractional Adverbials". Journal of Semantics.

2008:

Sigrid Beck, Luka Crnic & Thilo Götz: "Ruin and Restitution". Natural Language
Semantics 16, 111-114.

2009:

Sigrid Beck & Shravan Vasishth: "Multiple Focus". Journal of Semantics 26, 159-184.

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Sigrid Beck, Polina Berezovskaya & Katja Pflugfelder: "The Use of Again in 19th Century vs. Present Day English". Syntax 12:3, 193-214.

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Special Snippet for Manfred Krifka. Eds. Orin Percus, Hans-Martin Gärtner & Sigrid Beck.

Sigrid Beck, Svetlana Krasikova, Daniel Fleischer, Remus Gergel, Christiane Savelsberg, John Vanderelst & Elisabeth Villalta: "Crosslinguistic Variation in Comparison Constructions". Linguistic Variation Yearbook 9, 1-66.

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2010:

"Quantifiers in Than-Clauses". Semantics and Pragmatics 3, 1-72.

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Matthias Bauer & Sigrid Beck: "Interpretation: Local Composition and Textual Meaning". M. Albl-Mikasa, S. Braun, S. Kalina (eds.): Dimensionen der Zweitsprachenforschung - Dimensions of Second Language Research. Festschrift for Kurt Kohn. Tübingen: Narr, 289-300.

Bauer, Bauer, Beck, Dörge, von Eckartsberg, Meder, Riedel, Zimmermann, Zirker: "The two Coeval Come: Ambiguity in Emily Dickinson". LiLi 40.158, 98-124.

Beck, S., S. Tiemann, V. Hohaus: "German and English Comparatives are Different: Evidence from Child Language Acquisition." Pre-Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence: 254-258.

"Seuren/ Rullmann Ambiguities as Plural Comparison", Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20, 428-450.

2011:

"Comparison Constructions". C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger and P. Portner (eds.): Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning . Bd. 2. Berlin (u.a.): De Gruyter Mouton, 1341-1389.

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Beck, S., S. Tiemann, M. Schmid, N. Bade, B. Rolke, I. Hertrich, H. Ackermann, J. Knapp, "Psycholinguistic Evidence for Presuppositions: On-line and Off-line Data". I. Reich et al (eds.): Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 15. Saarbrücken: Universaar - Saarland Unversity Press, 581-595.

To appear:

"Lucinda Driving Too Fast Again." Ms., Universität Tübingen. To appear in Journal of Semantics.

[ last updated: 2012-01-12 ]