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Joseph Greenberg was a prominent American linguist recognized for his extensive work in language typology and historical linguistics. He is best known for his method of mass lexical comparison, which he used to propose broad genetic relationships among languages. In 1963, he published a highly influ...
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Highly influential typologist and classifier; African classification is respected, while later macro-family proposals remain controversial.
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Bernard Comrie is a prominent British linguist specializing in linguistic typology and language universals. He has held significant academic positions, including serving as a professor at the University of Southern California and directing the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute fo...
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Leading typologist; Aspect and language universals work are standard references with broad disciplinary respect.
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Martin Haspelmath is a German linguist at the Max Planck Institute, known for his research in linguistic typology, morphology, and language universals. He co-edited the World Atlas of Language Structures (2005), a cross-linguistic database mapping structural features across hundreds of the world's l...
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Highly influential typologist and open-science advocate; WALS and comparative concepts have strong impact and debate.
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Matthew S. Dryer is an American linguist and professor emeritus at the University at Buffalo, specializing in linguistic typology. He is widely recognized in the field for his extensive large-scale cross-linguistic research, particularly regarding word order correlations. Dryer co-edited the World A...
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Major word order typologist and WALS editor; strong empirical influence, more specialist than framework founders.
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