Bernard Comrie

Bernard Comrie (* May 23, 1947 in Sunderland ) is an English linguist. Since 1997 he has been director of the Linguistics Department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and since 2002 also Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At the University of Cambridge, he earned the degrees of BA and Ph. D. in 1972 In 1978 he became associate professor at the University of Southern California, 1981 Professor.

Bernard Comrie is particularly known for his work in the field of linguistic typology and universals. Among other things, he led the creation of the World Atlas of Language Structures ( WALS ) in 2005.

Honors

  • Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (since 1999)
  • Corresponding Member of the British Academy (since 1999)
  • Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (since 2000)
  • Honorary Doctorate, La Trobe University, Australia ( since 2004)

Book publishing ( in selection)

  • Aspect. An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems ( = Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Vol. 2). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, inter alia, 1976, ISBN 0-521-21109-3.
  • The languages ​​of the Soviet Union. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, inter alia, 1981, ISBN 0-521-23230-9.
  • Language universals and linguistic typology. Syntax and morphology. Blackwell, Oxford et al 1981, ISBN 0-631-12971-5.
  • Tense. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, among other things, 1985, ISBN 0-521-23652-5.
  • As editor: The world 's major languages ​​. Croom Helm, London ua 1987, ISBN 0-7099-3423-8.
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