Edgar Onea deals with phenomena at the grammar-discourse interface using formal-theoretical and experimental-empirical methods.

His research focuses in particular on

• information structure
• discourse structure
• text structures
• semantics of indefinites
• semantics and pragmatics of questions
• exhaustive inferences
• anaphoric expressions and quantification
• processing of pragmatic inferences
• semantics of discourse particles.

Edgar Onea's work combines experimental methods of psycholinguistics with corpus linguistic and computational linguistic approaches.

After completing my doctorate in German Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg in 2005, I worked at the University of Stuttgart between 2006 and 2010 as a member of staff at the Institute of Linguistics/German Studies. Subsequently, I held a junior professorship (2010-2016) and then a W2 professorship (2016-2017) for theoretical linguistics at the Courant Research Center Text Structures at the University of Göttingen. Since September 2017, I have been working as a university professor for German language/linguistics at the University of Graz. I head the Department of Theoretical and Empirical Linguistics.