Sigrid Beck | |
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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.[1][2]
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 addition to her current position at the University of Tübingen.[2]
In 2022, Beck was elected to the Academia Europaea.[2]