Matthew Dryer
American linguist
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Linguistics |
Institutions | State University of New York at Buffalo |
Matthew S. Dryer is a professor of linguistics at the State University of New York at Buffalo who has worked in typology, syntax, and language documentation.[1] He is best known for his research on word order correlations, which has been widely cited.[2] He is one of the editors of the World Atlas of Language Structures. His research has also analyzed various definitions of markedness as they may apply to word order.[3] He has done original research on Kutenai and is currently[when?] doing research (in conjunction with Lea Brown) on a number of languages of Papua New Guinea, among them Walman.
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External links
- Dryer's web site at Buffalo
- Online version of World Atlas of Language Structures
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