Matthew S. Dryer:

Chapters on Word Order from The World Atlas of Language Structures 


 
This page groups together my chapters from the WALS at last that deal with word order and position of affixes.

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. 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 [LARGE!]: 4652K or DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 385K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Position of polar question particles". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 60K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Position of interrogative phrases in content questions". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 55K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Prefixing versus suffixing in inflectional morphology". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 47K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Position of Case Affixes". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 60K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 58K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 55K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Order of subject 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 WITHOUT MAP: 47K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Order of 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 WITHOUT MAP: 50K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Order of adposition and noun phrase". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 57K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Order of adjective and noun". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 52K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Order of demonstrative and noun". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 51K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Order of genitive and noun". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 52K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Order of numeral and noun". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 58K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Order of relative clause and noun". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 55K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Order of degree word and adjective". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 45K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Order of adverbial subordinator and clause". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 65K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Relationship between the order of object and verb and the order of adposition and noun phrase". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 54K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Relationship between the order of object and verb and the order of relative clause and noun". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 58K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005. "Relationship between the order of object and verb and the order of adjective and noun". In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press. DOWNLOAD WITHOUT MAP: 53K [This is not the final draft of this paper.]

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