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]

• 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. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Beck, Sigrid (1 January 1996). "Quantified structures as barriers for LF movement". Natural Language Semantics. 4 (1): 1–56. doi:10.1007/BF00263536. ISSN 1572-865X. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Beck, Sigrid; Johnson, Kyle (January 2004). "Double Objects Again". Linguistic Inquiry. 35 (1): 97–123. doi:10.1162/002438904322793356. ISSN 0024-3892. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Beck, Sigrid; Rullmann, Hotze (1 September 1999). "A Flexible Approach to Exhaustivity in Questions". Natural Language Semantics. 7 (3): 249–298. doi:10.1023/A:1008373224343. ISSN 1572-865X. Retrieved 19 May 2023.