Sigrid Beck - Curriculum Vitae#
Education:
- 1987 High school diploma, Albertus-Magnus-Schule, Viernheim, Germany
- 1987 - 1993 Student at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in Linguistics (major), Computer Science and Psychology (minors)
- 1990 - 1991 Non-degree student at the Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh (MSc course in Cognitive Science)
- 1993 Masters degree in Linguistics with minors Computer Science and Psychology. Grade: "with distinction"
- 1997 Doctor of Philosophy, Universität Tübingen. Grade: "summa cum laude"
Title of Dissertation: "Wh-constructions and transparent Logical Form"
- 2003 Habilitation, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Title of second thesis (cumulative): "Pluralities and Comparisons"
Grants:
- 1990 - 1991 Grant from German Academic Exchange Service DAAD for Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
- 2004 PI of Project on Grammar and Pragmatics of Focus Evaluation, German Science Foundation DFG, at the Universität Potsdam
- 2009 - 2021 Chair of Collaborative Research Center SFB 833 'Construction of Meaning', German Science Foundation DFG, at the Universität Tübingen. PI of Projects on Crosslinguistic Variation in Semantics, Context Reconstruction, Processing of Presupposition and Semantic Experimentation.
- 2014 - 2020 PI of Project on experimental pragmatics in the XPRAG network, German Science Foundation DFG. Project leader
