Bernard Comrie
Bernard S. Comrie, is a British-born linguist. Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology and linguistic universals, and on Caucasian languages.Early life and education
Comrie was born in Sunderland, England on 23 May 1947. He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Cambridge.Academic career
For 17 years he was professor at and director of the former Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, combined with a post as Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he returned full-time from 1 June 2015. He has also taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles.Personal life
He married linguistics professor Akiko Kumahira in 1985.Honours
Comrie was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000. In September 2017, he was awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy.Selected works
- The World's Major Languages, 1987, New York: Oxford University Press,. Second edition: 2009, Routledge.
- Tense, 1985, Cambridge University Press..
- The Languages of the Soviet Union, 1981, Cambridge University Press, and
- Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology, 1981, The University of Chicago Press.
- Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems, 1976, Cambridge University Press.
