Edgar Onea
List of John Benjamins publications for which Edgar Onea plays a role.
Articles
2023 Neurophysiological evidence for the first mention effect during pronominal reference resolution in German Sign Language Sign Language & Linguistics 26:1, pp. 117–138 | Squib
Anaphoric pronoun resolution in spoken language has been shown to be influenced by the first mention bias. While this bias has been well investigated in spoken languages, less is known about a similar bias in sign languages. In sign languages, pronominal pointing signs (index) are directed… read more
2022 Answering overt wh -questions: How similar are Hungarian pre-verbal focus and English it -clefts? Approaches to Hungarian 17: Special issue of the Journal on Uralic Linguistics 1:2 (2022), Halm, Tamás, Elizabeth Coppock and Balázs Surányi (eds.), pp. 154–180 | Article
It-clefts in English, their French and German counterparts and pre-verbal focus in Hungarian have been claimed to be semantically related constructions. For example, É. Kiss (1998) terms them identificational focus and Destruel et al. (2015) coin them inquiry-terminating (IT) constructions.… read more
2020 (Non-)exhaustivity in focus partitioning across languages Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference, Hegedűs, Veronika and Irene Vogel (eds.), pp. 207–230 | Chapter
We present novel experimental evidence on the availability and the status of exhaustivity inferences with focus partitioning in German, English, and Hungarian. Results suggest that German and English focus-background clefts and Hungarian focus share important properties, (É. Kiss 1998, 1999;… read more
2012 Internally focalized narration from a linguistic point of view Scientific Study of Literature 2:2, pp. 218–242 | Article
Most definitions of the narratological notion of internal focalization are cast in terms of what the text represents, namely some character and her point of view. In being thus couched in representational terms, definitions of internal focalization do not mention any linguistic surface properties… read more
2009 Grammatical and contextual restrictions on focal alternatives Focus and Background in Romance Languages, Dufter, Andreas and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 281–308 | Article