Matthew S Dryer

Datos Biográficos

ID104365
NOMBREMatthew S Dryer
NOMBRESMatthew S
APELLIDODryer
FIRMADRYER M S
AFILIACIONESUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS39
TOTAL DE CITAS251
TOTAL COMO AUTOR39
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1981
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H7

  • The value of replication

    Open AccessMatthew S DryerARTICLELinguistic Typology2025

  • One way in which Slavic languages really are SVO languages

    Matthew S DryerARTICLETheoretical Linguistics2022

  • Adverbial Subordinator Prefixes

    Open AccessMatthew S DryerARTICLELinguistic Discovery2021

    Dryer (2013a) describes a number of ways in which languages mark adverbial clauses for their semantic relation to the main clause. One way is to use separate words, either at the beginning of the clause or at the end of the clause (or, more rarely, internal to the clause). Another type uses suffixes on verbs. The remaining type contains languages with more than one means of marking adverbial clauses, none of which is dominant. 2 What is absent fr…

  • On the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun

    Matthew S DryerARTICLELanguage2018

  • On the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun

    Matthew S Dryer, Matthew DryerARTICLELanguage2018Citada por: 9

    This article reports on a typological study of the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun, based on a sample of 576 languages. I propose a set of five surface principles which interact to predict the relative frequencies of the different orders of these four elements, whereby the more principles an order conforms to, the more frequent it will be. I provide evidence that the relative frequencies of the different orders can only be de…

  • World Atlas of Language Structures

    Open AccessMartin Haspelmath, Inc Wolfram Research et al.DATASETWolfram Research Data Repository2017

  • Passive and Inversion in Kannada

    Open AccessMatthew S DryerARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2014

    Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)

  • Competing Methods for Uncovering Linguistic Diversity

    Open AccessMatthew S DryerARTICLELanguage2014

    Competing methods for uncovering linguistic diversity:The case of definite and indefinite articles (Commentary on Davis, Gillon, and Matthewson)* Matthew S. Dryer 1. Introduction Davis, Gillon, and Matthewson (DG&M; 2014) argue that 'hypothesis-driven fieldwork has led to a more complete and accurate picture of linguistic diversity than has been produced by methods that rely largely on extracting information from existing descriptive grammars' (p…

  • On the Six-Way Word Order Typology, Again

    Matthew S DryerARTICLEStudies in Language2013

    This paper responds to in Newmeyer (2004, 2005), who gives argument defending the traditional six-way word order typology that classifies languages as SOV, SVO, etc. against arguments in Dryer (1997) in favour of an alternative typology which classifies languages according to two more basic typological parameters, VO vs. OV and VS vs. SV. The paper provides both updated and new data that is relevant to the issues. Although some of the new data ac…

  • The Branching Direction Theory of Word Order Correlations Revisited

    Matthew S DryerCHAPTERUniversals of Language Today2008

  • The verbs for ‘and’ in Walman, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessLea Brown, Matthew S DryerARTICLELanguage2008

    In Walman, a language in the Torricelli family spoken in Papua New Guinea, there are two words that have the function of conjoining noun phrases but that have the morphology of transitive verbs, exhibiting subject agreement with the first conjunct and object agreement with the second conjunct. We discuss two interrelated issues concerning these words: (i) Do these words behave syntactically like conjunctions in other languages, in combining with …

  • Passive in the world's languages

    Open AccessEdward L Keenan, Matthew S DryerCHAPTERLanguage Typology and Syntactic…2007

  • Clause types

    Open AccessMatthew S DryerCHAPTERLanguage Typology and Syntactic…2007

    Introduction There are at least four senses in which one can talk about clause or sentence types in a language. One way is in terms of the distinction between declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences. This distinction, really one of sentence type, is discussed elsewhere in this volume by König and Siemund in chapter 5. A second sense of clause type is represented by the distinction between main clause and subordinate clause, and among…

  • Word order

    Open AccessMatthew S DryerCHAPTERLanguage Typology and Syntactic…2007

    Introduction One of the primary ways in which languages differ from one another is in the order of constituents, or, as it is most commonly termed, their word order. When people refer to the word order of a language, they often are referring specifically to the order of subject, object, and verb with respect to each other, but word order refers more generally to the order of any set of elements, either at the clause level or within phrases, such …

  • Noun phrases without nouns

    Matthew S DryerARTICLEFunctions of Language2004

    In this paper, I investigate the theoretical status of noun phrases without nouns, i.e. noun phrases that do not contain a noun or pronoun, but only words that otherwise occur as modifiers of nouns. I investigate six possible analyses for such noun phrases: (1) that they are elliptical, (2) that the apparent modifiers are nouns, (3) that the apparent modifiers are heads, (4) that the determiner is the head, (5) that they are headless, (6) that al…

  • Case distinctions, rich verb agreement, and word order type (Comments on Hawkins’ paper)

    Matthew S DryerARTICLETheoretical Linguistics2002

    Hawkins discusses a variety of asymmetries in the area of word order and proposes a variety of explanations in terms of parsing or sentence processing. I am sympathetic overall to the kinds of explanations he proposes (cf. Dryer 1980, 1992). In some instances, however, the data supporting the generalizations he puts forward is rather limited. Because I have a typological database (Dryer 1989, 1991, 1992) containing a large amount of relevant data…

  • On the Six-Way Word Order Typology

    Matthew S DryerARTICLEStudies in Language1997

    A number of arguments are given against the traditional word order typology based on the six types SOV, SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS, and OSV, and in favour of an alternative typology based on two binary parameters OV vs. VO and SV vs. VS. The arguments given include ones based on various advantages of collapsing VSO and VOS into a single type, the infrequency of clauses containing a noun subject and noun object, the value of isolating the more predictive …

  • The Languages of the World

    Matthew S Dryer, Kenneth KatznerARTICLELanguage1997

  • Focus, pragmatic presupposition, and activated propositions

    Open AccessMatthew S DryerARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics1996Citada por: 32Referencias: 32

  • Languages of the World

    Matthew S Dryer, Stefan Weninger et al.ARTICLELanguage1995

  • The discourse function of the Kutenei inverse

    Matthew S DryerCHAPTERVoice and inversion1994

  • Wendell Jones and Paul Jones. Barasano Syntax

    Matthew S DryerARTICLEWORD1994Referencias: 1

  • Verb-subject order in Polish

    Barbara Jacennik, Matthew S DryerCHAPTERPragmatics of Word Order…1992

  • Contes du Yasin

    Matthew S Dryer, Étienne Tiffou et al.ARTICLELanguage1992

  • Inflectional synthesis of the verb

    Balthasar Bickel, J Nichols et al.