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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 doing research (in conjunction with Lea Brown) on a number of languages of Papua New Guinea, among them Walman.

Matthew Dryer
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics
Institutions	State University of New York at Buffalo

References

External links

• Dryer's web site at Buffalo
• Online version of World Atlas of Language Structures

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