Sigrid Beck#
| Membership Number: | 6238 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/neuphilologie/englisches-seminar/sections/english-linguistics/lehrstuhl-prof-dr-sigrid-beck/prof-dr-sigrid-beck/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2005 Chair of Theoretical and Descriptive English Linguistics, Universität Tübingen, Germany
- 2015/16 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- 2009 Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
- 2004/5 Junior Professor at the Universität Potsdam, Germany
- 1997 - 2003 Assistant, then Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, USA
- 1997 Researcher, Universität Tübingen
- 1996 Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Natural language semantics
- Formal diachronic semantics
- Crosslinguistic variation
- Semantics/pragmatics interface
- Syntax/semantics interface
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Visiting Fellowship, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK
- 2003 Heisenberg-Stipendium (3-year grant), German Science Foundation DFG (not used)
- 1997 Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, German Science Foundation DFG (award PhD thesis)
