Prof. Dr. Dejan Matić
Professor for General and Comparative Linguistics
Aegidiistraße 5
48143 Münster
Room 105
Phone: 0251/83-24494
matic@uni-muenster.de
Office hour after arrangement
Appointments: by e-mail to ktembrin@uni-muenster.de
Secretary
Lectures
Summer semester 2025
Number Type of lecture Title of lecture 091120 Colloquium Master and Graduate Colloquium 091121 Lecture 091122 Seminar Implicatures 091123 Seminar Semantic Typology
Winter semester 2024/25Number Type of lecture Title of lecture 099350 Colloquium 099351 lecture 099352 seminar 099353 seminar 099354 seminar Winter semester 2023/2024
Number Type of lecture Title of lecture 095340 colloquium Master and Graduate Colloquium 095341 lecture Syntax 095342 lecture Linguistic Theories and Models 095343 seminar Linguistic fieldwork
Summer semester 2023Number Type of lecture Title of lecture 093120 colloquium Master and Graduate Colloquium 093121 lecture 093122 seminar Language contact 093123 seminar 093124 lecture
Winter semester 2022/2023Number Type of lecture Title of lecture 091120 colloquium 091121 lecture 091122 seminar 091123 seminar
Summer semester 2022Number Type of lecture Title of lecture 098924 colloquium Master and Graduate Colloquium 098925 seminar/tutorial
098926 lecture Linguistic Theories and Models 098927 lecture 098928 seminar Grammatical Relations
Winter semester 2021/2022Number Type of lecture Title of lecture 097120 lecture Methoden der Sprachwissenschaft 097121 seminar Strukturkurs Jukagirisch 097122 seminar Pragmatics 097123 colloquium Master and Graduate Colloquium
Summer semester 2021Number Type of lecture Title of lecture 095340 colloquium Colloquium for Graduate Students 095341 lecture Introduction to General Linguistics 095342 seminar Clitics 095343 seminar Implicatures 095344 seminar Strukturkurs Ewenisch Winter semester 2020/2021
Number Type of lecture Title of lecture 093994 colloquium for PhD students Colloquium for Graduate Students 093995 lecture Languages of the World 093996 seminar Agreement 093997 lecture Semantics Winter semester 2019/2020
Number Type of lecture Title of lecture 098812 colloquium for PhD students Doktorandenkolloquium 098813 seminar Semantic Typology 098814 seminar Strukturkurs Ewenisch 098816 guest speaker Forschungsforum 098815 Werkstatt des Promotionskollges Sprachwissenschaft Summer semester 2019
Number Type of lecture Title of lecture 096813 lecture Introduction to General Linguistics 096814 colloquium for PhD students Doktorandenkolloquium 096815 Werkstatt des Promotionskollegs Sprachwissenschaft 096816 seminar Grammatical Relations Professional career
since 10/2017 Professor, General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Muenster 2015–2017 Professor, Linguistics, University of Graz 2014–2015 Professor (locum tenens), University of Dusseldorf 2009–2014 Post-Doc, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen 2007–2009 Post-Doc, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 2003–2005 Research Assistant, University of Cologne 2003 Doctoral degree, University of Cologne Research Focus
- Information structure, discourse, pragmatics
- Semantic and pragmatic typology
- Linguistic theory
- Language description and documentation
- Indigenous languages of Siberia; Balkan languages; Latin and Ancient Greek
Publications
Books
2024 Dejan Matić, Irina Nikolaeva & Maria Pupynina (Eds.)
Language Contact in North-eastern Siberia.
Special issue of Journal of Language Contact 17(1).2014 (Eds.) Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2013 (Eds.) Even epics. Ewedi ńimkar. Evenskie nimkany. Berlin: Kulturstiftung Sibirien. 2003 Dejan Topics, Presuppositions, and Theticity: An Empirical Study of Verb-Subject Clauses in Albanian, Modern Greek, and Serbo-Croat. Köln: KUPS.
Papers2024 Dejan Matić Defining Language Death. In: Monica Genesin, Karl Gerhard Hempel & Thede Kahl (eds.), Endangered Language Varieties in Italy and the Balkans, pp. 29-46. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. 2024 Dejan Matić
Language contact in north-eastern Siberia: An introduction.
Journal of Language Contact 17(1): 1-10.2024 Dejan Matić & Irina Nikolaeva
Recent morphosyntactic changes in the Lower Kolyma region. Journal of Language Contact 17(1): 11-69.
2024 Alexandra Lavrillier & Dejan Matić
Even kinship terminology, society and language contact. Journal of Language Contact 17(1): 95-162.
2022 Dejan Matić Alternatives to Information Structure. In When Data Challenges Theory: Non-Prototypical, Unexpected and Paradoxical Evidence in the Field of Information Structure, edited by Davide Garassino & Daniel Jacob, 91-111. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2020 Dejan Matić Reflexives, reciprocals, and intensifiers in Ewen: An exercise in Tungusic dialectology. In: International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 2(2): 244-285 2019 Dejan A case for syntactic case: The Accusative in Tundra Yukaghir. In: Morphology 29 (3): 337–383. 2018 Dejan
From polarity focus to salient polarity: From things to processes. In: The Grammatical Realization of Polarity. Theoretical and Experimental Approaches, edited by Christine Dimroth, Stefan Sudhoff, 9–53. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2018 On differential Predicative case marking in Tundra Yukaghir. In Oralité, information, typologie. Hommage à M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest, edited by Julia Marie-Ange Amon Marri, 365–398. Paris: L'Harmattan. 2017 Periphrastic proximatives in the dialects of Even (North Tungusic). In Prospective and Proximative as Grammatical Categories, edited by Agnes Korn, Irina Nevskaya, 78–93. Wiesbaden: Reichert. 2017 Exploring vowel length in Tundra Yukaghir. In Definitely Perfect. Festschrift for Janneke Kalsbeek, edited by René Genis, Eric de Haard, Radovan Lucic, 431–463. Amsterdam: Pegasus. 2016 Left-dislocation, sentences and clauses in Avatime, Tundra Yukaghir and Whitesands. In Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Festschrift for Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., edited by Jens Fleischhauer, Anja Latrouite, Rainer Osswald, 339–367. Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press.
2016 Ėven converbs and the syntax of switch-reference. In Switch-Reference 2.0, edited Rik by van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, 335–376. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2015 Tag questions and focus markers: Evidence from the Tompo dialect of Even. In Information Structure and Spoken Language in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, edited by M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest, Robert D. van Valin Jr., 167–189. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2015 Information structure in linguistics. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, edited by James D. Wright, 95–99. Oxford: Elsevier. 2015 On prosodic signalling of focus in Tundra Yukaghir. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 11: 627–644. 2015 A life of polysynthesis: Hans-Jürgen Sasse. Linguistic Typology 19: 327–335. 2014 Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir. Lingua 150: 202–231. 2014 Questions and syntactic islands in Tundra Yukaghir. In Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences, edited by Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matic, Saskia van Putten, Ana Vilacy Galucio, 127–162. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2014 Focus feature percolation: Evidence from Tundra Nenets and Tundra Yukaghir. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, edited by Stefan Müller, 299–317. Standford, CA: CSLI Publications. 2014 Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences. An overview. In Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences, edited by Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matic, Saskia van Putten, Ana Vilacy Galucio, 1–42. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2014 Deriving information structure from field data. In Methodological Issues in the Study of Information Structure, edited by Dina El Zarka, Steffen Heidinger, 25–42. Graz: Universität Graz. 2013 Non-canonical SAY in Siberia: Areal and genealogical patterns. Studies in Language 37: 356–412. 2013
The meaning of focus: The significance of an interpretation-based category in cross-linguistic analysis. Journal of Linguistics 49: 127–163. 2010 Discourse and syntax in linguistic change: Ratified topics in Serbian/Croatian. In Studies on Information Structure: Language Acquisition and Change, edited by Gisella Ferraresi, Rosemarie Lühr, 117–142. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2009 On the variability of focus meanings. In Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguists, Seoul 2008, 10. Seoul: Linguistic Society of Korea. 2008 The meaning of predicative particles in Albanian and Greek. In Secondary Predicates in Eastern European Languages and Beyond, edited by Christoph Schroeder, Gerd Hentschel, Winfried Boeder, 215–231. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag der Carl von Ossietzky-Universität. 2008 Russian influence on the Kolyma Yukaghir morphosyntax. In Sprachkontakt, synchron und diachron, edited by Antje Casaretto, Silvia Kutscher, 93–124. Aachen: Shaker. 2008 A note on hesitative forms in two Ėven dialects. In Sravnitel’no-istoričeskoe i tipologičeskoe izučenie jazykov i kul’tur. Materialy meždunarodnoj naučnoj konferencii XXV Dul’zonovskie čtenija, edited by O.A. Osipova, A.V. Didenko, E.A. Krjukova, 234–239. Tomsk: Tomskij gossudarstvennyj pedagogičeskij universitet. 2007 Die Syntax der Kopulasätze im Ungarischen und Englischen: Spezifikation und Kongruenz. In Kopulaverben und Kopulasätze: Intersprachliche und Intrasprachliche Aspekte, edited by Ljudmila Geist, Björn Rothstein, 19–43. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 2007 Phonologische Phrasen und die Position der mittelgriechischen Klitika. In Sobria ebrietas. Festschrift Miron Flašar, edited by Vojislav Jelic, 143–158. Belgrad: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu. 2006 Gr. aōteō ‘schlafen’. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 3: 53–61. 2006 Cross-cultural differences in comprehension of irony. LAUD, Series A: General & Theoretical Papers 675, 1–37. 2003 Topic, focus, and discourse structure: Ancient Greek word order. Studies in Language 27: 573–633. 1998 Verb-subject sequence in Classical Greek. Zbornik Matice Srpske za klasičnu filologiju 1: 295–302.
Reviews2020 Dejan Matić Review of "Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages" ed. by Sonja Riesberg, Asako Shiohara, and Atsuko Utsumi. In: Language 96 (3): 726-729. 2012 Review of "Assertion" by Mark Jary. Palgrave Macmillan 2010. LinguistList 23: 2502. 2010 Review of "A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir". eLanguage. 2007 Review of "The Handbook of Pragmatics" edited by Laurence R. Horn,Gregory Ward. LinguistList 18: 312.