Introduction
Bernard S. Comrie (; born 23 May 1947 in Sunderland, England) is a British-born linguist. Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology and linguistic universals, and on Caucasian languages.
He was for 17 years 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 1st June 2015. He has also taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Cambridge.
Comrie became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000.
He married linguistics professor Akiko Kumahira in 1985.
Partial bibliography
- The World's Major Languages (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press 1987, ISBN 0-19-520521-9; second edition, Routledge 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-35339-7.
- Tense (1985)
- The Languages of the Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Language Surveys) 1981. ISBN 0-521-23230-9 (hard covers) and ISBN 0-521-29877-6 (paperback)
- Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology (1981)
- Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems (1976)