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Bernard Sterling Comrie
Born
23 May 1947
(age 78)
Occupation
Linguist
Academic background
Academic work
Institutions
Main
interests
and
Bernard Sterling Comrie
,
(
; born 23 May 1947) is
a British linguist. Comrie is a specialist in
,
and on
.
Personal life
[
]
Early life and education
[
]
Comrie was born in
,
on 23 May 1947. He earned his
undergraduate and doctoral degrees in
Modern and Medieval Languages and
Linguistics from the
,
where he also taught
Russian and Linguistics until he moved to the Linguistics Department of the
.
Personal life
[
]
He married linguistics professor Akiko Kumahira in 1985.
Professional life
[
]
Academic career
[
]
For 17 years he was professor at and director of the former Department of Linguistics at the
in
,
, combined with a post as
of Linguistics at the
, where he returned full-time from 1 June 2015. He has also taught at the
and the
.
Honours
[
]
Comrie was elected a
(FBA), the United Kingdom's
for the humanities and
social sciences.
He became a foreign member of the
in 2000.
In
September 2017, he was awarded the
by the
.
Selected works
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Books
[
]
The World's Major Languages
(ed.), 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 (Cambridge Language Surveys),
(hard covers) and
(paperback)
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.
Articles
[
]
Comrie, Bernard. 1975. Causatives and universal grammar. Transactions of the Philological Society 1974. 1–32.
Comrie, Bernard. 1976. The syntax of causative constructions: Cross-language similarities and divergences. In
Shibatani, Masayoshi (ed.),
Syntax and Semantics 6: The Grammar of Causative Constructions
, 261–312. New York:
Academic Press.
Comrie, Bernard. 1978.
. In Lehmann, Winfred P. (ed.),
Syntactic typology: Studies in the phenomenology
of language
, 329–394. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Comrie, Bernard. 1986. Markedness, grammar, people, and the world. In Eckman, Fred R. & Moravcsik, Edith A. &
Wirth, Jessica R. (eds.),
Markedness
, 85–106. New York: Plenum.
Comrie, Bernard. 1999.
.
Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
52(3–4). 335–346.
Comrie, Bernard. 2005. Alignment of case marking. In Haspelmath, Martin & Dryer, Matthew S. & Gil, David & Comrie,
Bernard (eds.),
The world atlas of language structures
, 398–405. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ((
))
Keenan, Edward L. & Comrie, Bernard. 1977. Noun phrase accessibility and universal grammar.
Linguistic Inquiry
8.
63–99.
References
[
]
. Wikidata
. Retrieved
30 October
2021
.
(PDF)
. Max Planck Institute
. Retrieved
21 November
2015
.
.
The British Academy
. Retrieved
28 February
2022
.
.
www.linguistics.ucsb.edu
.
State of California. Marriage Index, 1960-1985. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services,
Sacramento, California.
. Loyola Marymount University. Archived from
on 22 November 2015
. Retrieved
21 November
2015
.
.
. Retrieved
21 November
2015
.
.
The British Academy
. Retrieved
15 October
2017
.
. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from
on 29 January 2016
. Retrieved
29 January
2016
.
.
The British Academy
. Retrieved
15 October
2017
.
External links
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