Prof. Dr. Dejan Matić

Professor für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft

Aegidiistraße 5
48143 Münster

Raum 105
Tel.: 0251/83-24494
matic@uni-muenster.de

Sprechstunde nach Absprache
Anmeldung: per E-Mail an ktembrin@uni-muenster.de

Sekretariat

Katrin Tembrink

Lehrveranstaltungen

Wintersemester 2024/2025

Veranstaltungsnr.	Veranstaltungsart	Titel der Veranstaltung
099350	Kolloquium	Master- und Doktorandenkolloquium
099351	Vorlesung	Sprachtheorien und Modelle
099352	Seminar	Strukturkurs Jukagirisch
099353	Seminar	Kongruenz
099354	Seminar	Semantik

Wintersemester 2023/2024

Veranstaltungsnr.	Veranstaltungsart	Titel der Veranstaltung
095340	Kolloquium	Master- und Doktorandenkolloquium
095341	Vorlesung	Syntax
095342	Vorlesung	Sprachtheorien und Modelle
095343	Seminar	Linguistische Feldforschung

Sommersemester 2023

Veranstaltungsnr.	Veranstaltungsart	Titel der Veranstaltung
093120	Kolloquium	Master- und Doktorandenkolloquium
093121	Vorlesung	Sprachen der Welt
093122	Seminar	Sprachkontakt
093123	Seminar	Semantic Typology
093124	Vorlesung	Sprachtheorien und Modelle

Wintersemester 2022/2023

Veranstaltungsnr.	Veranstaltungsart	Titel der Veranstaltung
091120	Kolloquium	Master und Doktorandenkolloquium
091121	Vorlesung	Sprachtheorien und Modelle
091122	Seminar	Semantik
091123	Seminar	Informationsstruktur

Sommersemester 2022

Veranstaltungsnr.	Veranstaltungsart	Titel der Veranstaltung
098924	Kolloquium	Master- und Doktorandenkolloquium
098925	Seminar/Übung	Explizitheit
098926	Vorlesung	Sprachtheorien und Modelle
098927	Vorlesung	Einführung in die Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
098928	Seminar	Grammatische Relationen

Wintersemester 2021/2022

Veranstaltungsnr.	Veranstaltungsart	Titel der Veranstaltung
097120	Vorlesung	Methoden der Sprachwissenschaft
097121	Seminar	Strukturkurs Jukagirisch
097122	Seminar	Pragmatik
097123	Kolloquium	Master- und Doktorandenkolloquium

Sommersemester 2021

Veranstaltungsnr.	Veranstaltungsart	Titel der Veranstaltung
095340	Kolloquium	Doktorandenkolloquium
095341	Vorlesung	Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft
095342	Seminar	Klitika
095343	Seminar	Implikaturen
095344	Seminar	Strukturkurs Ewenisch

Wintersemester 2020/2021

Veranstaltungsnr.	Veranstaltungsart	Titel der Veranstaltung
093994	Kolloquium	Doktorandenkolloquium
093995	Vorlesung	Sprachen der Welt
093996	Seminar	Kongruenz
093997	Vorlesung	Semantics

Wintersemester 2019/2020

Veranstaltungsnr.	Veranstaltungsart	Titel der Veranstaltung
098812	Doktorandenkolloquium	Doktorandenkolloquium
098813	Seminar	Semantische Typologie
098814	Seminar	Strukturkurs Ewenisch
098816	Gastvortrag	Forschungsforum
098815		Werkstatt des Promotionskollegs Sprachwissenschaft

Sommersemester 2019

Veranstaltungsnr.	Veranstaltungsart	Titel der Veranstaltung
096813	Vorlesung	Einführung in die allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
096814	Doktorandenkolloquium	Doktorandenkolloquium
096815		Werkstatt des Promotionskollegs Sprachwissenschaft
096816	Seminar	Grammatische Relationen

Beruflicher Werdegang

seit 10/2017	Professor für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Münster
2015–2017	Professor für Sprachwissenschaft, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
2014–2015	Professurvertretung, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2009–2014	Post-Doc, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen
2007–2009	Post-Doc, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig
2003–2005	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Universität zu Köln
2003	Promotion, Universität zu Köln

Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Informationsstruktur, Diskurs, Pragmatik
- Semantische und pragmatische Typologie
- Sprachtheorie
- Sprachbeschreibung und Dokumentation
- Indigene Sprachen Sibiriens; Balkansprachen; Latein und Altgriechisch

Publikationen

Bücher

2024	Dejan Matić, Irina Nikolaeva & Maria Pupynina (Eds.)	Language Contact in North-eastern Siberia. Special issue of Journal of Language Contact 17(1).
2014	Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten, Ana Vilacy Galucio (Eds.)	Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2013	Alexandra Lavrillier, Dejan Matić (Eds.)	Even epics. Ewedi ńimkar. Evenskie nimkany. Berlin: Kulturstiftung Sibirien.
2003	Dejan Matić	Topics, Presuppositions, and Theticity: An Empirical Study of Verb-Subject Clauses in Albanian, Modern Greek, and Serbo-Croat. Köln: KUPS.

Aufsätze

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 Matić	A case for syntactic case: The Accusative in Tundra Yukaghir. In: Morphology 29 (3): 337–383.
2018	Dejan Matić, Irina Nikolaeva	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	Dejan Matić	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	Dejan Matić	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	Cecilia Odé, Dejan Matić	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	Dejan Matić, Jeremy Hammond, Saskia van Putten	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	Dejan Matić	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	Dejan Matić	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	Dejan Matić	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	Cecilia Odé, Dejan Matić	On prosodic signalling of focus in Tundra Yukaghir. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 11: 627–644.
2015	Nicholas Evans, Nikolaus Himmelmann, Dejan Matić	A life of polysynthesis: Hans-Jürgen Sasse. Linguistic Typology 19: 327–335.
2014	Dejan Matić, Irina Nikolaeva	Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir. Lingua 150: 202–231.
2014	Dejan Matić	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	Dejan Matić, Irina Nikolaeva	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	Dejan Matić, Rik van Gijn, Robert D. van Valin Jr.	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	Dejan Matić	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	Dejan Matić, Brigitte Pakendorf	Non-canonical SAY in Siberia: Areal and genealogical patterns. Studies in Language 37: 356–412.
2013	Dejan Matić, Daniel Wedgwood	The meaning of focus: The significance of an interpretation-based category in cross-linguistic analysis. Journal of Linguistics 49: 127–163.
2010	Dejan Matić	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	Dejan Matić	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	Dejan Matić	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	Dejan Matić	Russian influence on the Kolyma Yukaghir morphosyntax. In Sprachkontakt, synchron und diachron, edited by Antje Casaretto, Silvia Kutscher, 93–124. Aachen: Shaker.
2008	Dejan Matić	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	Dejan Matić	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	Dejan Matić	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	Daniel Kölligan, Dejan Matić	Gr. aōteō ‘schlafen’. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 3: 53–61.
2006	Leila Behrens, Dejan Matić, Hans-Jürgen Sasse	Cross-cultural differences in comprehension of irony. LAUD, Series A: General & Theoretical Papers 675, 1–37.
2003	Dejan Matić	Topic, focus, and discourse structure: Ancient Greek word order. Studies in Language 27: 573–633.
1998	Dejan Matić	Verb-subject sequence in Classical Greek. Zbornik Matice Srpske za klasičnu filologiju 1: 295–302.

Rezensionen

2020	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	Dejan Matić	Review of "Assertion" by Mark Jary. Palgrave Macmillan 2010. LinguistList 23: 2502.
2010	Dejan Matić	Review of "A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir". eLanguage.
2007	Dejan Matić	Review of "The Handbook of Pragmatics" edited by Laurence R. Horn,Gregory Ward. LinguistList 18: 312.