Bernard Comrie

Bernard Comrie (born May 23, 1947 in Sunderland ) is an English linguist .

Life

From 1997 until his retirement in 2015, Comrie was director of the former department of linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and, since 2002, has also been Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara . At the University of Cambridge he earned the academic degree BA and 1972 Ph. D. In 1978 he became Associate Professor at the University of Southern California , 1981 Professor.

Comrie is particularly known for his work in the fields of language typology and universals research . 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)
• Member of the Academia Europaea (since 2006)
• Honorary Doctorate, La Trobe University , Australia (since 2004)

Book publications

• Aspect. An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems (= Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Vol. 2). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1976, ISBN 0-521-21109-3 .
• The languages ​​of the Soviet Union. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 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 et al. 1985, ISBN 0-521-23652-5 .
• as editor: The world's major languages. Croom Helm, London et al. 1987, ISBN 0-7099-3423-8 .

Web links

• Homepage of Bernard Comrie at the University of California
• Literature by and about Bernard Comrie in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernard Comrie - Curriculum Vitae . Max Planck Institute. Retrieved May 6, 2020.