For any papers here that are not available for download, please ask me for a copy at dryer@buffalo.edu. If any of the papers that are listed as being available for download fail to do so, please let me know.
Dryer, Matthew S. 2007. Clause types. In Clause Structure, Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Vol. 1, edited by Timothy Shopen. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press.DOWNLOAD [This is not the final draft of this paper.]
Keenan, Edward L. and Matthew S. Dryer. 2007. Passive in the World's Languages. In Clause Structure, Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Vol. 1, edited by Timothy Shopen. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press.DOWNLOAD: [This is not the final draft of this paper.]
Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Order of subject, object, and verb". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITH MAP: 4652K or DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 385K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]
Dryer, Matthew S. 1997 "Are Grammatical Relations Universal?" In Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givon, edited by Joan Bybee, John Haiman, and Sandra Thompson, pp. 115 - 143. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1997 "Passive vs. Indefinite Subject Construction in Cree." In Papers of the Twenty-Sixth Algonquian Conference, edited by David Pentland. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1996. Grammatical Relations in Ktunaxa (Kutenai): The Belcourt Lecture Delivered Before the University of Manitoba on 24 February 1995. Voices of Rupert's Land: Winnipeg, Canada.DOWNLOAD: 4.8 MB
Dryer, Matthew S. 1994 "The Discourse Function of the Kutenai Inverse". In Voice and Inversion, edited by T. Givon, pp. 65-99. John Benjamins.DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1992. "A Comparison of the Obviation Systems of Kutenai and Algonquian." In Papers of the Twenty-Third Algonquian Conference, edited by William Cowan. Ottawa: Carleton University, pp. 119-163. DOWNLOAD: 157K
Dryer, Matthew S. 1991 "What Determines Antipassive in Dyirbal?" In ESCOL '90 (Proceedings of the Seventh Eastern States Conference on Linguistics), ed. by Yongkyoon No and Mark Libucha. Columbus: The Ohio State University, pp. 90-101.DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1991 "Subject and Inverse in Kutenai." In Papers from the American Indian Languages Conferences, Held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, July and August, 1991. Occasional Papers on Linguistics 16:183-202, ed. James E. Redden. Carbondale, Illinois: Dept. of Linguistics. Also appeared in Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 91-01: 20-39. DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1986. Primary Objects, Secondary Objects, and Antidative. Language 62: 808-845.DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1985 "The Role of Thematic Relations in Adjectival Passives." Linguistic Inquiry 16: 320-326.DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1983 "Indirect Objects in Kinyarwanda Revisited." In Studies in Relational Grammar I, edited by David M. Perlmutter, pp. 129-140. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1982 "In Defense of a Universal Passive." Linguistic Analysis 10: 53-60.
Dryer, Matthew S. 1982 "Passive and Inversion in Kannada." In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 311-321.DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1978 "Some Theoretical Implications of Grammatical Relations in Cebuano." In University of Michigan Papers in Linguistics 2:4: 1-43. DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1977 "On
Explaining the Syntactic Properties of Passive Agent Noun Phrases in Universal
Grammar." In Papers from the 1976 Meeting of the 1976 Meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society, pp. 7-23.