Dr. Simeon Dekker
Former Assistant
Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- simeon.dekker@unibe.ch
- Postal Address
- Institut für Slavische Sprachen und Literaturen
Länggassstrasse 49
3012 Bern
Biography
Simeon Dekker studied English and Slavistics in Leiden (NL) and St. Petersburg.
Doctorate in 2016 in Leiden with a doctoral thesis on the old-Russian birchbark manuscripts. A revised version of the doctoral thesis was published by Brill in 2018.
Simeon Dekker (2018). Old Russian Birchbark Letters: A Pragmatic Approach (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics 42). Leiden/Boston: Brill/Rodopi. 10.1163/9789004417137
So far, the following reviews have been published:
Pavel V. Petrukhin (2019). Voprosy jazykoznanija 2019/4: 155-160. 10.31857/S0373658X0005711-1
Imke Mendoza (2019). Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5/2. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2018-0010
Publications
2022
Dekker, Simeon (2022). Past tense usage in Old Russian performative formulae. A case study into the development of a written language of distance. In: Mendoza, Imke; Birzer, Sandra (eds.) Diachronic Slavonic Syntax: Traces of Latin, Greek and Church Slavonic. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs: Vol. 348 (pp. 179-198). De Gruyter
Kakridis, Ioannis; Dekker, Simeon (2022). Der diatribische Stil bei Kosmas dem Presbyter und Grigorij Camblak. Studi Slavistici, XIX(1), pp. 27-48. 10.36253/Studi_Slavis-12473
Dekker, Simeon (2022). Features of the "diatribe" in the writings of Iosif Volotskii. Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta. Jazyk i literatura, 19(2), pp. 389-408. Izdatel´stvo Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta 10.21638/spbu09.2022.212
Dekker, Simeon (2022). Features of the Cynic-Stoic diatribe in early Slavic homilies: Clement of Ohrid and his literary heritage. Palaeobulgarica, 46(2), pp. 97-120. Bălgarska akademija na naukite
2021
Dekker, Simeon (2021). Die Übersetzung griechisch-diatribischer Formeln beim Exarchen Johannes: Am Beispiel seiner kompilativen Homilie zum Evangelisten Johannes. In: Sub specie aeternitatis: Сборник научных статей к 60‑летию Вадима Борисовича Крысько (pp. 568-585). Москва: Азбуковник.
Dekker, Simeon (2021). The Slavic rendition of Greek speech reporting verbs in Chrysostom’s homilies in the Codex Suprasliensis: A case study into the transmission of diatribal discourse organization. Slověne, 10(1), pp. 186-216. Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences 10.31168/2305-6754
Dekker, Simeon (2021). Parenthetical verbs as elements of diatribe in John the Exarch’s Hexaemeron: Greek continuities and Slavic innovations. Die Welt der Slaven, 66(2), pp. 238-267. Harrassowitz Verlag
Dekker, Simeon (2021). The translation and transmission of ‘diatribal’ verbs in the textual traditions of the Zlatostruj collection. Russian linguistics, 45(2), pp. 175-200. Springer 10.1007/s11185-021-09243-4
Dekker, Simeon (2021). Parenthetical verbs Zlatostruj [Dataset].
Dekker, Simeon (2021). Hexaemeron [Dataset]. In: Dataset about "Parenthetical verbs as elements of diatribe in John the Exarch’s Hexaemeron: Greek continuities and Slavic innovations.".
Dekker, Simeon (2021). Verba dicendi 5 homilies Suprasliensis [Dataset].
2020
Dekker, Simeon (2020). Употребление глагольных времён в древнерусских перформативных высказываниях: прагматический подход. In: Dutch Contributions to the Sixteenth International Congress of Slavists - Linguistics: Belgrade, August 20-27, 2018. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics: Vol. 44 (pp. 54-75). Leiden/Boston: Brill
2019
Dekker, Simeon (September 2019). Die Pragmatik der Dialogizität in ostslavischen Quellen des Spätmittelalters. In: 13. Deutscher Slavistentag (pp. 86-87). Berlin: Frank & Timme
2018
Dekker, Simeon (2018). Three dimensions of proximity and distance in the Old Russian birchbark letters. In: Kapetanovic, Amir (ed.) The Oldest Linguistic Attestations and Texts in the Slavic Languages (pp. 176-190). Wien: Holzhausen
Dekker, Simeon (2018). Old Russian Birchbark Letters: A Pragmatic Approach. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics: Vol. 42. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Rodopi 10.1163/9789004353206
2014
Schaeken, Jos; Fortuin, Egbert; Dekker, Simeon (2014). Эпистолярный дейксис в новгородских берестяных грамотах. Вопросы языкознания, pp. 21-38. Nauka
Fortuin, Egbert; Houtzagers, Peter; Kalsbeek, Janneke; Dekker, Simeon (eds.) (2014). Dutch Contributions to the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics: Vol. 40. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi
Dekker, Simeon (2014). Communicative heterogeneity in Novgorod birchbark letters: A case study into the use of imperative subjects. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, 40, pp. 1-23. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi
Presentations
25.09.2019 13. Deutscher Slavistentag, Trier
“Die Pragmatik der Dialogizität in ostslavischen Quellen
des Spätmittelalters.”
15.-20.07.2019 HiSoN summer school 2019, Metochi, Lesbos (auf Einladung)
(13th Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics)
Vorlesungsreihe “Voices on birchbark:
Everyday communication in medieval Russia.”
02.07.2019 Slavisches Institut, Heidelberg (auf Einladung)
“Briefe auf Birkenrinde: Mündliche und schriftliche
Kommunikation im mittelalterlichen Russland.”
14.06.2019 Diachronic Slavonic Syntax 4, Toruń
“Discourse organization in East Slavic reported speech:
Greek influence vs. vernacular habits.”
26.04.2019 Slavisches Seminar, Amsterdam (auf Einladung)
“Dialogische structuren in middeleeuwse Slavische bronnen:
Inheemse oraliteit en Griekse retorica.”
23.03.2019 13. Altslavistik-Tagung, Saarbrücken
“Die altrussischen Birkenrindenurkunden im Spannungsfeld
zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit:
Eine pragmaphilologische Perspektive.”
28.02.2019 Mezinárodní paleoslovenistická konference „Nahé jsou všechny
národy bez knih“, Prag
“Greek dialogical strategies in medieval Slavic sources of the
Cyrillo-Methodian literary heritage.”
18.01.2019 Research Network of Urban Literacy, Aarhus (auf Einladung)
“The development of conceptual literacy in medieval Novgorod.”
13.12.2018 A Host of Tongues… Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Translation
in the Early Modern Period, Lissabon
“The pragmatics of dialogicality in Russian: Interplay of local and
foreign elements.”
29.11.2018 Ruthenica alba Bernensia / Weißrussische Studien in Bern
“Birkenrindentexte der westlichen Rus’.”
21.08.2018 XVI. Internationaler Slavistenkongress, Belgrad
“Перформативные формулы и употребление глагольных времён
в древнерусских грамотах: Прагматический подход.”
04.11.2017 3rd Diachronic Slavonic Syntax conference, Salzburg
“The role of performative formulae in the development of past tense
usage in Old Russian birchbark letters.”
19.10.2017 Slavic and East-European Lectures, Gent (auf Einladung)
“Oud-Russische berkenbastbrieven: Een pragmatische benadering.”
04.11.2016 Međunarodni znanstveni skup ‘Najstarije jezične potvrde i tekstovi
slavenskih jezika,’ Zagreb
“Old Russian birchbark letters from Novgorod and surroundings.”
24.06.2016 Slavisches Seminar, Amsterdam (auf Einladung)
“Old Russian birchbark letters: A pragmatic approach.”
14.11.2014 Nederlands-Vlaamse Slavistendagen, Amsterdam
“Performatieven in de Oud-Russische berkenbastbrieven:
Een pragmatische benadering.”
31.07.2014 Historical Sociolinguistics Network, Kristiansand
“A pragmaphilological approach to Old Russian birchbark letters.”
15.05.2014 1st Poznań Historical Sociopragmatics Symposium, Poznań
“A pragmaphilological account of past tense performatives in Old Russian
birchbark letters.”
29.04.2014 Семинар по истории русского языка и культуры, Moskau (auf Einladung)
“Перформативное употребление глагольных времен в берестяных
грамотах.”
25.10.2012 Vlaams-Nederlandse Slavistendagen, Groningen
“Я у тебе слышоу цето ты моловише: Mondelinge elementen in
communicatie op berkenbast.”