Matthew S. Dryer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Matthew S. Dryer plays a role.
2013 On the Six-Way Word Order Typology, Again Studies in Language 37:2, pp. 267–301 | Article
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… read more
2011 Noun-Modifi er Order in Africa Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With special reference to Africa, Hieda, Osamu, Christa König and Hiroshi Nakagawa (eds.), pp. 287–311 | Article
2009 Verb-object-negative order in central Africa Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond, Cyffer, Norbert, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), pp. 307–362 | Article
Crosslinguistically, SVO languages most commonly place negative particles before the
verb, employing SNegVO order. This paper documents an area in central Africa which
deviates from this pattern, in which the negative follows the verb, typically occurring
at the end of the clause, in… read more
2004 Noun phrases without nouns Grounding and headedness in the noun phrase, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe (ed.), pp. 43–76 | Article
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… read more
1997 On the Six-Way Word Order Typology Studies in Language 21:1, pp. 69–103 | Article
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… read more
1997 Are Grammatical Relations Universal? Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón, Bybee, Joan L., John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 115–144 | Article
1995 Frequency and pragmatically unmarked word order Word Order in Discourse, Downing, Pamela A. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 105–135 | Article
1994 The discourse function of the Kutenei inverse Voice and Inversion, Givón, T. (ed.), pp. 65–100 | Article
1992 Verb-subject order in Polish Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility, Payne, Doris L. (ed.), pp. 209–242 | Article
1989 Large Linguistic Areas and Language Sampling Studies in Language 13:2, pp. 257–292 | Article
1989 Discourse-Governed Word Order and Word Order Typology Universals of Language, Kefer, Michel and Johan van der Auwera (eds.), pp. 69–90 | Article
1988 Universals of negative position Studies in Syntactic Typology, Hammond, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik and Jessica Wirth (eds.), pp. 93–124 | Article