Sigrid Beck
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3851352 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sigrid Beck |
| NOMBRES | Sigrid |
| APELLIDO | Beck |
| FIRMA | BECK S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 177 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
(No) variation in the grammar of alternatives
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 (Altaic, Turkic), and Yoruba (Niger-Congo, Defoid). In all of these languages, we find an interesting asymmetry in that focus evaluation interrupts question …
Different again
One of the open questions in the literature on again-type elements (such as English again and German wieder ‘again’) is how to derive their different readings. Specifically, we can differentiate between a repetitive reading (e.g., some activity happens that has happened before) and a restitutive reading (e.g., some activity that has not happened before restores an earlier state). One controversial question is whether these two readings involve le…
On the Form and Interpretation of Echo Wh-Questions
We argue that echo wh-questions (EwhQs) are autonomous grammatical structures, and that their distinctive formal properties determine their semantics and pragmatics. Echo wh-sentences contain a wh-phrase in which the wh-element is narrowly focused, and a phrasal Q operator. Wh-phrase and Q operator determine a question semantics. Focus on wh determines the discourse appropriateness conditions for EwhQs, namely that an answer to the question be gi…
The diachronic semantics of English again
Contrasting English and German Grammar
"This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilitate an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory."--Back cover
DegP scope revisited
Quantifiers in "than"-clauses
The paper reexamines the interpretations that quantifiers in "than"-clauses give rise to. It develops an analysis that combines an interval semantics for the "than"-clause with a standard semantics for the comparative operator. In order to mediate between the two, interpretive mechanisms like maximality and maximal informativity determine selection of a point from an interval. The interval semantics allows local interpretation of the quantifier. …
Crosslinguistic variation in comparison constructions
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 scales into the meanings of gradable predicates. The second parameter differentiates between languages that allow quantification over degrees in the syn…
The Use of Again in 19th-Century English versus Present-Day English
The central claim of this paper is that the use of the adverb again has changed between 19th-century English and present-day English. In particular, restitutive uses were more easily and generally available in the 19th century than they are now. This diachronic change provides evidence for a lexical parameter governing the behavior of adverbs at the syntax/semantics interface. The parameter relates surface form to possible interpretations and thu…
Ruin and restitution
Dog after dog revisited
This paper presents a compositional semantic analysis of pluractional adverbial modifiers like 'dog after dog' and 'one dog after the other'. We propose a division of labour according to which much of the semantics is carried by a family of plural operators. The adverbial itself contributes a semantics that we call pseudoreciprocal
Intervention Effects Follow from Focus Interpretation
Parametric Variation in the Semantics of Comparison
Double Objects Again
In this article, we explore the interaction of the verb again with double object constructions and the corresponding NP+PP constructions. The restitutive reading that again gives rise to in combination with these predicates supports an analysis of double object constructions according to which they contain a small clause with a head predicate HAVE, and an analysis of the corresponding NP+PP constructions that is not transformationally related and…
Reciprocals are Definites
A Flexible Approach to Exhaustivity in Questions
On wh- and Operator Scope in Korean
Quantified structures as barriers for LF movement
Intervention Effects Follow from Focus Interpretation
Double Objects Again
In this article, we explore the interaction of the verb again with double object constructions and the corresponding NP+PP constructions. The restitutive reading that again gives rise to in combination with these predicates supports an analysis of double object constructions according to which they contain a small clause with a head predicate HAVE, and an analysis of the corresponding NP+PP constructions that is not transformationally related and…
Quantified structures as barriers for LF movement
A Flexible Approach to Exhaustivity in Questions
Reciprocals are Definites
DegP scope revisited
The Use of Again in 19th-Century English versus Present-Day English
The central claim of this paper is that the use of the adverb again has changed between 19th-century English and present-day English. In particular, restitutive uses were more easily and generally available in the 19th century than they are now. This diachronic change provides evidence for a lexical parameter governing the behavior of adverbs at the syntax/semantics interface. The parameter relates surface form to possible interpretations and thu…
(No) variation in the grammar of alternatives
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 (Altaic, Turkic), and Yoruba (Niger-Congo, Defoid). In all of these languages, we find an interesting asymmetry in that focus evaluation interrupts question …
The diachronic semantics of English again
Quantified structures as barriers for LF movement
On wh- and Operator Scope in Korean
A Flexible Approach to Exhaustivity in Questions
Reciprocals are Definites
Parametric Variation in the Semantics of Comparison
Double Objects Again
In this article, we explore the interaction of the verb again with double object constructions and the corresponding NP+PP constructions. The restitutive reading that again gives rise to in combination with these predicates supports an analysis of double object constructions according to which they contain a small clause with a head predicate HAVE, and an analysis of the corresponding NP+PP constructions that is not transformationally related and…
Dog after dog revisited
This paper presents a compositional semantic analysis of pluractional adverbial modifiers like 'dog after dog' and 'one dog after the other'. We propose a division of labour according to which much of the semantics is carried by a family of plural operators. The adverbial itself contributes a semantics that we call pseudoreciprocal
Intervention Effects Follow from Focus Interpretation
Ruin and restitution
Crosslinguistic variation in comparison constructions
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 scales into the meanings of gradable predicates. The second parameter differentiates between languages that allow quantification over degrees in the syn…
The Use of Again in 19th-Century English versus Present-Day English
The central claim of this paper is that the use of the adverb again has changed between 19th-century English and present-day English. In particular, restitutive uses were more easily and generally available in the 19th century than they are now. This diachronic change provides evidence for a lexical parameter governing the behavior of adverbs at the syntax/semantics interface. The parameter relates surface form to possible interpretations and thu…
Quantifiers in "than"-clauses
The paper reexamines the interpretations that quantifiers in "than"-clauses give rise to. It develops an analysis that combines an interval semantics for the "than"-clause with a standard semantics for the comparative operator. In order to mediate between the two, interpretive mechanisms like maximality and maximal informativity determine selection of a point from an interval. The interval semantics allows local interpretation of the quantifier. …
DegP scope revisited
Contrasting English and German Grammar
"This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilitate an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory."--Back cover
The diachronic semantics of English again
On the Form and Interpretation of Echo Wh-Questions
We argue that echo wh-questions (EwhQs) are autonomous grammatical structures, and that their distinctive formal properties determine their semantics and pragmatics. Echo wh-sentences contain a wh-phrase in which the wh-element is narrowly focused, and a phrasal Q operator. Wh-phrase and Q operator determine a question semantics. Focus on wh determines the discourse appropriateness conditions for EwhQs, namely that an answer to the question be gi…
Different again
One of the open questions in the literature on again-type elements (such as English again and German wieder ‘again’) is how to derive their different readings. Specifically, we can differentiate between a repetitive reading (e.g., some activity happens that has happened before) and a restitutive reading (e.g., some activity that has not happened before restores an earlier state). One controversial question is whether these two readings involve le…
(No) variation in the grammar of alternatives
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 (Altaic, Turkic), and Yoruba (Niger-Congo, Defoid). In all of these languages, we find an interesting asymmetry in that focus evaluation interrupts question …
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