Matthew S. Dryer is a professor of

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at the

State University of New York at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

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 The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials. It was first published by Oxford University Press as a book with CD-ROM i ...

. His research has also analyzed various definitions of

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as they may apply to word order.Google Scholar citations of Dr. Dryer's publications
/ref> He has done original research on

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and is currently 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 BuffaloOnline version of World Atlas of Language Structures
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