• CV

    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.). 2024. 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.). 2024. Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
    2013 Alexandra Lavrillier, Dejan Matić  (Eds.). 2013. Even epics. Ewedi ńimkar. Evenskie nimkany. Berlin: Kulturstiftung Sibirien.
    2003 Dejan Matić. 2003. Topics, Presuppositions, and Theticity: An Empirical Study of Verb-Subject Clauses in Albanian, Modern Greek, and Serbo-Croat. Köln: KUPS.


    Papers

    2024 Dejan Matić. 2024. 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. 2024. Language contact in north-eastern Siberia: An introduction. Journal of Language Contact 17(1): 1-10.
    2024 Dejan Matić & Irina Nikolaeva. 2024. Recent morphosyntactic changes in the Lower Kolyma region. Journal of Language Contact 17(1): 11-69.
    2024 Alexandra Lavrillier & Dejan Matić. 2024. Even kinship terminology, society and language contact. Journal of Language Contact 17(1): 95-162.
    2022 Dejan Matić. 2022. 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. 2020. Reflexives, reciprocals, and intensifiers in Ewen: An exercise in Tungusic dialectology. In: International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 2(2): 244-285
    2019 Dejan Matić. 2019. A case for syntactic case: The Accusative in Tundra Yukaghir. In: Morphology 29 (3): 337–383.
    2018 Dejan Matić, Irina Nikolaeva. 2018. 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. 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 Dejan Matić. 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 Cecilia Odé, Dejan Matić. 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 Dejan Matić, Jeremy Hammond, Saskia van Putten. 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 Dejan Matić. 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 Dejan Matić. 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 Dejan Matić. 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 Cecilia Odé, Dejan Matić. 2015. On prosodic signalling of focus in Tundra Yukaghir. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 11: 627–644.
    2015 Nicholas Evans, Nikolaus Himmelmann, Dejan Matić. 2015. A life of polysynthesis: Hans-Jürgen Sasse. Linguistic Typology 19: 327–335.
    2014 Dejan Matić, Irina Nikolaeva. 2014. Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir. Lingua 150: 202–231.
    2014 Dejan Matić. 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 Dejan Matić, Irina Nikolaeva. 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 Dejan Matić, Rik van Gijn, Robert D. van Valin Jr.. 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 Dejan Matić. 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 Dejan Matić, Brigitte Pakendorf. 2013. Non-canonical SAY in Siberia: Areal and genealogical patterns. Studies in Language 37: 356–412.
    2013 Dejan Matić, Daniel Wedgwood. 2013. The meaning of focus: The significance of an interpretation-based category in cross-linguistic analysis. Journal of Linguistics 49: 127–163.
    2010 Dejan Matić. 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 Dejan Matić. 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 Dejan Matić. 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 Dejan Matić. 2008. 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. 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 Dejan Matić. 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 Dejan Matić. 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 Daniel Kölligan, Dejan Matić. 2006. Gr. aōteō ‘schlafen’. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 3: 53–61.
    2006 Leila Behrens, Dejan Matić, Hans-Jürgen Sasse. 2006. Cross-cultural differences in comprehension of irony. LAUD, Series A: General & Theoretical Papers 675, 1–37.
    2003 Dejan Matić. 2003. Topic, focus, and discourse structure: Ancient Greek word order. Studies in Language 27: 573–633.
    1998 Dejan Matić. 1998. Verb-subject sequence in Classical Greek. Zbornik Matice Srpske za klasičnu filologiju 1: 295–302.


    Reviews

    2020 Dejan Matić. 2020. 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. 2012. Review of "Assertion" by Mark Jary. Palgrave Macmillan 2010. LinguistList 23: 2502.
    2010 Dejan Matić. 2010. Review of "A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir". eLanguage.
    2007 Dejan Matić. 2007. Review of "The Handbook of Pragmatics" edited by Laurence R. Horn,Gregory Ward. LinguistList 18: 312.
     

  • Lectures
     

    Winter semester 2026/27

    Number Type of lecture Title of lecture
    097120 colloquium

    Master and Graduate Colloquium
    097121 lecture

    Linguistic Theories and Models
    097122 seminar Structure of Tundra/Yukaghir
    097123 seminar Referent tracking
    097124 seminar

    Semantics 


    Summer semester 2026

    Number Type of lecture Title of lecture
    095121 Colloquium  Master and Graduate Colloquium 
    095122 Lecture

    Linguistic Theories and Models 
    095123 Seminar Morphology and morphological theories
    095124 Seminar Information Structure


    Winter semester 2025/26

    Number Type of lecture Title of lecture
    093120 Colloquium Master and Graduate Colloquium
    093121 Lecture

    Linguistic Theories and Models
    093122 Seminar

    Grammatical Relations
    093123 Lecture Languages of the World
    093124 Seminar

    Copulas and non-verbal predication


    Summer semester 2025

    Number Type of lecture Title of lecture
    091120 Colloquium Master and Graduate Colloquium
    091121 Lecture

    Linguistic Theories and Models
    091122 Seminar Implicatures
    091123 Seminar Semantic Typology


    Winter semester 2024/25

    Number Type of lecture Title of lecture
    099350 Colloquium

    Master and Graduate Colloquium
    099351 lecture

    Linguistic Theories and Models
    099352 seminar

    Structure of Yukaghir
    099353 seminar

    Agreement 
    099354 seminar

    Semantics 

     

    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 2023

    Number Type of lecture Title of lecture
    093120 colloquium Master and Graduate Colloquium
    093121 lecture

    Languages of the World
    093122 seminar Language contact
    093123 seminar

    Semantic Typology
    093124 lecture

    Linguistic Theories and Models



    Winter semester 2022/2023

    Number Type of lecture Title of lecture
    091120 colloquium

    Master and Graduate Colloquium
    091121 lecture

    Linguistic Theories and Models
    091122 seminar

    Semantic
    091123 seminar

    Information Structure


    Summer semester 2022

    Number Type of lecture Title of lecture
    098924 colloquium Master and Graduate Colloquium
    098925

    seminar/tutorial

    Explicitness
    098926 lecture Linguistic Theories and Models  
    098927 lecture

    Introduction to General Linguistics
    098928 seminar Grammatical Relations


    Winter semester 2021/2022

    Number 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 2021

    Number 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