Matthew S. Dryer

PhD

Matthew S. Dryer.

Matthew S. Dryer

PhD

Matthew S. Dryer

PhD

Professor Emeritus
Department of Linguistics
College of Arts and Sciences

Specialties

Typology, Syntax, Documentation (especially Papuan languages)

Education

  • PhD, University of Michigan

Selected Publications

  • Dryer, Matthew S. (2016) “Crosslinguistic categories, comparative concepts, and the Walman diminutive”. Linguistic Typology 20: 305-331.
  • Dryer, Matthew S. (2014) “Competing methods for uncovering linguistic diversity: the case of definite and indefinite articles”. Language (Perspectives Section) 90: e232-e249.
  • Dryer, Matthew S. (2013) “On the six-way order typology, again”. Studies in Language 37: 267 – 301.
  • Dryer, Matthew S. (2011) “The evidence for word order correlations: a response to Dunn, Greenhill, Levinson and Gray’s paper in Nature”. Linguistic Typology 15: 335 – 380.