Sigrid Beck

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sigrid Beck plays a role.

Yearbook

Howell, Anna, Vera Hohaus, Polina Berezovskaya, Konstantin Sachs, Julia Braun, Şehriban Durmaz and Sigrid Beck 2022 (No) variation in the grammar of alternativesLinguistic Variation 22:1, pp. 1–77 | Article
The paper reports the results of an in-depth crosslinguistic study of intervention effects and the grammar of alternatives in a typologically diverse sample of five languages: Palestinian Arabic (Afro-Asiatic, Semitic), Russian (Indo-European, Slavic), Samoan (Austronesian, Oceanic), Turkish… read more
Beck, Sigrid, Sveta Krasikova, Daniel Fleischer, Remus Gergel, Stefan Hofstetter, Christiane Savelsberg, John Vanderelst and Elisabeth Villalta 2009 Crosslinguistic variation in comparison constructionsLinguistic Variation Yearbook 2009, van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen (ed.), pp. 1–66 | Article
This paper presents parallel sets of data on comparison constructions from 14 languages. On the basis of the crosslinguistic differences we observe, we propose three parameters of language variation. The first parameter concerns the question of whether or not a language’s grammar has incorporated… read more
Beck, Sigrid and Stephen Berman 2000 Wh-Scope Marking: Direct vs. Indirect DependencyWh-Scope Marking, Lutz, Uli, Gereon Müller and Arnim von Stechow (eds.), pp. 17–44 | Article
Beck, Sigrid 1995 Negative Islands and ReconstructionOn Extraction and Extraposition in German, Lutz, Uli and Jürgen Pafel (eds.), pp. 121–144 | Article