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.
His research has also analyzed various definitions of markedness as they may apply to word order.
doing research (in conjunction with Lea Brown) on a number of languages of Papua New Guinea, among them Walman.
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