Matthew S. Dryer is a professor of

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

at the

State University of New York at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo (commonly referred to as UB, University at Buffalo, and sometimes SUNY Buffalo) is a public research university in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States. The university was founded in 1846 a ...

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-RO ...

. 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

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External links

Dryer's web site at BuffaloOnline version of World Atlas of Language Structures
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