Matthew Dryer

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Matthew Dryer is affiliated with the following schools: University at Buffalo, University of Chicago

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PhD Linguistics University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, 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. He is best known for his research on word order correlations, which has been widely cited. 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. He has done original research on Kutenai and is currently doing research on a number of languages of Papua New Guinea, among them Walman.

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The World Atlas of Language Structures (2005) (966)
The Greenbergian word order correlations (1992) (823)
Primary Objects, Secondary Objects, and Antidative (1986) (409)
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online (2013) (404)
Large Linguistic Areas and Language Sampling (1989) (277)
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Passive in the world's languages (2007) (247)
Focus, pragmatic presupposition, and activated propositions (1996) (179)
Are Grammatical Relations Universal (1997) (174)
Word Order (2019) (164)
Descriptive theories, explanatory theories, and Basic Linguistic Theory (2006) (120)
SVO languages and the OV: VO typology (1991) (112)
REDUPLICATION: FORM, FUNCTION AND DISTRIBUTION (2002) (111)
Object-verb order and adjective-noun order: Dispelling a myth (1988) (110)
The positional tendencies of sentential noun phrases in universal grammar (1980) (92)
On the Six-Way Word Order Typology (1997) (88)
Universals of negative position (1988) (77)
Why statistical universals are better than absolute universals (1998) (65)
The Branching Direction Theory of Word Order Correlations Revisited (2009) (54)
Verb-object-negative order in Central Africa (2009) (48)
Frequency and pragmatically unmarked word order (1995) (46)
On the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun (2018) (45)
Word Order in Sino-Tibetan Languages from a Typological And Geographical Perspective (2002) (39)
Word Order in Tibeto-Burman Languages (2008) (32)
Thermally conductive magnetohydrodynamic flows in helmet-streamer coronal structures (1990) (28)
The evidence for word order correlations (2011) (28)
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Clause types (2007) (28)
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Word order (2007) (28)
Plural words (1989) (27)
A verification method for space weather forecasting models using solar data to predict arrivals of interplanetary shocks at Earth (2004) (26)
Noun-Modifi er Order in Africa (2011) (26)
The verbs for ‘and’ in Walman, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea (2008) (25)
Predicting the Arrival Time of Shock Passages at Earth (2005) (24)
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Noun phrase structure (2007) (23)
Case distinctions, rich verb agreement, and word order type (Comments on Hawkins’ paper) (2002) (21)
World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) Online (2011) (21)
Discourse-Governed Word Order and Word Order Typology (1989) (20)
Aspects of word order in the languages of Europe (1998) (19)
Competing methods for uncovering linguistic diversity: The case of definite and indefinite articles (Commentary on Davis, Gillon, and Matthewson) (2014) (18)
Verb-subject order in Polish (1992) (18)
Population Size and Rates of Language Change (2016) (17)
Significant and non-significant implicational universals (2003) (17)
Higher order fluid equations for multicomponent nonequilibrium stellar (plasma) atmospheres and star clusters (1980) (16)
A Comparison of the Obviation Systems of Kutenai and Algonquian (2000) (16)
Noun phrases without nouns (2004) (14)
Problems testing typological correlations with the online WALS (2009) (14)
SOME EFFECTS OF FINITE ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY ON SOLAR FLARE-INDUCED INTERPLANETARY SHOCK WAVES. (1970) (12)
Linguistic Society of America Primary Objects (2007) (12)
Frederick J. Newmeyer, Possible and probable languages: a generative perspective on linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. x+278. (2007) (11)
Crosslinguistic categories, comparative concepts, and the Walman diminutive (2016) (11)
Functionalism and the Metalanguage - Theory Confusion (1999) (11)
Passive vs. Indefinite Actor Construction in Plains Cree (10)
On the dispersion of ion cyclotron waves in H+−He+ + solar wind‐like magnetized plasmas (1988) (9)
Theoretical non-Maxwellian particle velocity distribution functions for spherically symmetric solar wind--like plasma systems and consequences (1983) (9)
Higher order fluid equations for multicomponent nonequilibrium stellar /plasma/ atmospheres and star clusters. II - Effects of nonzero relative flow velocities and skewing of velocity distribution functions (1981) (9)
On the Six-Way Word Order Typology, Again (2013) (9)
Coronal change at the south-west limb observed by Yohkoh on 9 November 1991, and the subsequent interplanetary shock at Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1996) (9)
Adverbial Subordinators and Word Order Asymmetries (2003) (8)
Diminutive as an Inflectional Category in Walman (2007) (8)
The role of thematic relations in adjectival passives (1985) (7)
Comparative study of predicted and experimentally detected interplanetary shocks (2002) (7)
Mon Khmer Word Order from a Crosslinguistic Perspective (7)
Theoretical non-Maxwellian particle velocity distribution functions for spherically symmetric solar wind-like plasma systems and consequences. II: The case of large thermal anisotropy and nine moments description for each species (1987) (7)
On the role of parameters in Universal Grammar : a reply to Newmeyer (2006) (7)
A grammatical description of Kara-Lemakot (2012) (7)
Competing Methods for Uncovering Linguistic Diversity : The Case of Definite and Indefinite Articles 1 (2014) (6)
Tlingit: An Object-Initial Language? (1985) (6)
Passive and Inversion in Kannada (1982) (6)
Grammaticalization accounts of word order correlations (2019) (4)
Grammatical relations in Ktunaxa (Kutenai) (1996) (4)
Inﬂectional synthesis of the verb (2005) (4)
Kutenai, Algonquian and the Pacific Northwest from an Areal Perspective (2007) (4)
On the Order of Demonstrative, Numeral, Adjective, and Noun (2018) (4)
The discourse function of the Kutenei inverse (1994) (3)
Obviation Across Clause Boundaries in Kutenai. (1997) (3)
Three Types of Noun Phrase Preposing in English (3)
Nonlinear aspects of collective, electromagnetic interactions in magnetized plasmas with anisotropic protons and isotropic alpha particles (1986) (3)
To appear in 2005 / 2006 in Clause Structure , Language Typology and Syntactic Description (2005) (3)
What Determines Antipassive in Dyirbal? (2007) (3)
The tone system of Poko-Rawo (Skou) (2021) (2)
Exponence of selected inﬂectional formatives (2005) (2)
A Statistical Comparison of Some Theories of NP Word Order (2017) (2)
4 Associated motion and directionals: where they overlap (2021) (2)
The Pragmatics of Focus-Association with on ly (2000) (2)
Three-dimensional global simulation of CME/ICME/Shock propagation from Sun to the heliosphere (2005) (2)
A variational derivation of the velocity distribution functions for nonequilibrium, multispecies, weakly interacting, spherically symmetric many-body systems (1982) (1)
Gender in Walman (2019) (1)
Noun-Modifier Order in Africa 1 (2018) (1)
On the position of interrogative phrases and the order of complementizer and clause (2012) (1)
Generalized expressions for momentum and energy losses of charged particle beams in non-Maxwellian multi-species plasmas and spherical symmetry (1982) (1)
Language names and nonlinguists: A response to Haspelmath (2019) (1)
Clause Types Existential Clauses for Expressing Predicate Possession 1.6.4. Other Types of Existential Clauses 1.7. Minor Types of Clauses with Nonverbal Predicates 2. Verbal Predicates 2.1. Transitive vs. Intransitive Clauses 2.2. Ergative vs. Accusative Patterns 2.3. Ditransitive Clauses 2.4. Subt (0)
One way in which Slavic languages really are SVO languages (2022) (0)
Pauline Jacobson and Geoffrey K. Pullum, editors. The Nature of Syntactic Representation. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co. 1982. Pp. xix + 479. US $67.50 (hardcover); US $19.95 (paper). (1983) (0)
Errata: "Some effects of finite electrical conductivity on solar flare-induced interplanetary shock waves" [Cosmic Electrodyn., Vol. 1, p. 348 - 370 (1970)]. (1971) (0)
Doris L. Payne. The Pragmatics of Word Order: Typological Dimensions of Verb Initial Languages. In the series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990. Pp. xiv + 298. DM 148,-; US$106.00 (hardcover). (1992) (0)
Johanna Nichols and Anthony C. Woodbury, eds. Grammar Inside and Outside the Clause: Some Approaches to Theory from the Field . Cambridge: University Press. 1985. Pp. 419. (1986) (0)
Lorna MacDonald. A Grammar of Tauya. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1990. Pp. xiii + 385. US$140.00 (hardcover). (1994) (0)
Judith Aissen. Tzotzil Clause Structure. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Dordrecht: Reidel. 1987. Pp. xxiii + 290. Hfl. 150,-; US$64.00; £53.00 (hardcover). (1989) (0)
Eung-Do Cook and Donna Gerdts, eds. The Syntax of Native American Languages. No. 16 in the series Syntax and Semantics. New York: Academic Press. 1984. Pp. xiii + 324. (1986) (0)
Frans Plank, ed. Ergativity: Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations . New York: Academic Press. 1979. Pp. xiii + 569.* (1985) (0)
CNJ volume 30 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (1985) (0)
Significant and Non-significant Implicational Universals 1 (2003) (0)
On the Dispersion of Ion Cyclotron Waves in Magnetized H+ -He++ Solar Wind-Like Plasmas (1987) (0)
Solar Trans-Equatorial Magnetic Flux Ropes and Their Possible Relation to Geomagnetic Storms (2005) (0)
Merritt Ruhlen. A Guide to the World’s Languages . Volume 1: Classification . Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1987. Pp. xxvii + 433. US$25.00 (hardcover). (1990) (0)
13 Associated motion in North America (including Mexico and Central America) (2021) (0)
Adverbial Subordinator Prefixes (2021) (0)
On the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun: Supplemental Material (2018) (0)
334 82 Order of Subject and Verb MATTHEW S . DRYER (2005) (0)
Pronominal Suffixes (0)
SHIPLEY, WILLIAM, ed. In Honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics. (1992) (0)
Talmy Givón, ed. Topic Continuity in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross-Language Study. Typological Studies in Language , Vol. 3. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1983. Pp. 492. (1987) (0)
Close to final draft of paper that appeared in Theoretical Linguistics 28: 151-157. Case Distinctions, Rich Verb Agreement, and Word Order Type (Comments on Hawkins’ paper)1 (2008) (0)
Commission 49: Interplanetary Plasma and Heliosphere: (Plasma Interplanetaire et Heliosphere) (2000) (0)
Languages of the World@@@Ge c ez (Classical Ethiopic)@@@Mbalanhu@@@Cantonese@@@Gunin/Kwini (1995) (0)
Reviews (2000) (0)
Noun Phrase Structure (2018) (0)
Robert Carlson. A Grammar of Supyire . In the series Mouton Grammar Library 14. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1994. Pp. xxi + 766. US$267.70 (hardcover). (1996) (0)
Martin Haspelmath. A Grammar of Lezgian . In the series Mouton Grammar Library 9. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1993. Pp. xx + 567. US$186.00 (hardcover). (1996) (0)
Fusion of selected inﬂectional formatives (2005) (0)
WALS Online, July 2014, with unfreeze support. (2014) (0)
On Language: Selected Writings of Joseph H. Greenberg. Keith Denning and Suzanne Kemmer (1992) (0)
A real-time hybrid heliospheric modeling system (2001) (0)
Interplanetary Shock Waves from Mcmath Region 11976 during its Passage in August 1972 (presented by M. Dryer) (1974) (0)
A variational derivation of the velocity distribution functions for nonequilibrium, multispecies, weakly interacting, spherically symmetric many-body systems (1982) (0)
Syntactic argumentation and the structure of English: David M. Perlmutter and Scott Soames, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979, xiii, 602 pp. (1981) (0)

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