Matthew Dryer

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.^[2] He is one of the editors of the World Atlas of Language Structures. His research has also analyzed various definitions of markedness as they may apply to word order.^[3] He has done original research on Kutenai and is currently^[when?] doing research (in conjunction with Lea Brown) on a number of languages of Papua New Guinea, among them Walman.