University Professor for German Language/Linguistics
Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Edgar Onea
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.