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| Matthew Dryer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Matthew Dryer |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Known for | Typology, syntax, morphosyntax |
Matthew Dryer is an American linguist known for his work in linguistic typology, syntax, and morphosyntactic alignment. He has contributed to cross-linguistic databases, fieldwork analyses, and theoretical debates involving typologists and syntacticians. His research intersects with descriptive grammars, computational resources, and international collaborations among scholars and institutions.
Dryer was born in the United States and pursued undergraduate studies before attending Yale University for graduate work in linguistics, where he studied with scholars associated with Generative grammar, Typology research groups, and fieldwork programs. His doctoral training included exposure to comparative work influenced by researchers at institutions such as MIT, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Pennsylvania, and involved engagement with collections at the Linguistic Society of America meetings and archives.
Dryer has held academic appointments and visiting positions at universities and research centers involved in typological and syntactic research, including collaborations with faculty from Cornell University, University of Chicago, Stanford University, and international institutes such as the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Australian National University. He has participated in conferences organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics, the International Congress of Linguists, and panels at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Dryer has contributed to editorial boards for journals associated with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and society publications of the Linguistic Society of America.
Dryer is best known for compiling and analyzing cross-linguistic typological data, contributing to databases used by researchers at Columbia University, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. His work on word order typology relates to research by Joseph Greenberg, Noam Chomsky, Emmon Bach, and has influenced projects at the Summer Institute of Linguistics and the Digitizing Endangered Languages initiatives. He has published analyses relevant to morphosyntactic alignment, case systems, and clausal architecture that intersect with studies from Berkeley, Brown University, and Harvard University. Dryer's typological atlases and datasets have been used in computational typology with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh, University of Helsinki, and the University of Tokyo, and have informed comparative work on language universals discussed at meetings of the Association for Linguistic Typology and in volumes by Cambridge University Press.
Dryer's publications include monographs, articles in journals, and chapters in edited volumes published by MIT Press, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press. He has contributed entries to handbooks edited by scholars at Oxford University Press and chapters alongside authors associated with Routledge and the Handbook of Morphology. Notable works are cited in bibliographies at the Linguistic Society of America and incorporated into course reading lists at Yale University, Stanford University, and UCLA.
Dryer has received recognition from professional organizations including honors from the Linguistic Society of America and acknowledgments in festschrifts associated with conferences of the Association for Linguistic Typology and the International Congress of Linguists. His datasets have been highlighted in projects funded by agencies such as the National Science Foundation and have been adopted by research groups at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Santa Fe Institute.
Dryer resides in the United States and has engaged with community programs related to language documentation and revitalization that connect with organizations like the Endangered Language Alliance, the National Science Foundation outreach programs, and university-affiliated fieldwork initiatives. He has collaborated with colleagues and students from institutions including McGill University, University of Toronto, and Australian National University on documentation projects and training workshops.
Category:Linguists