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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Historical Linguistics,General and Applied Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages |
| Keywords | areal linguistics, functional linguistics, syntactic typology, word order, discourse pragmatics |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Buffalo |
| Institution | University of Buffalo, The State University of New York |
| Institute | Department of Linguistics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Bernard Comrie | Abteilung Linguistik, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig |
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| Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath | Abteilung Linguistik, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig |
| Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel | Institut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2009 |
Program(s)
| 2008 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Matthew Dryer is an international authority on linguistic typology, as well as on documentation of endangered languages. He developed the theoretical and methodological underpinnings for cross-linguistic databases and is the most prolific contributor to the World Atlas of Language Structures. he conducts fieldwork on indigenous languages of Canada and New Guinea. In Germany, he will continue his work on theoretical implications of cross-linguistic diversity and on languages of New Guinea. |