Bernard Comrie
Bernard Sterling Comrie | |
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Born | 23 May 1947 |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Occupation | Linguist |
Academic career | |
Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara |
Main interests | Linguistic typology and linguistic universals |
Bernard Sterling Comrie,[1] FBA (/ˈbɜːrnərd ˈkɒmriː/; born 23 May 1947) is a British-born linguist. Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology, linguistic universals and on Caucasian languages.
Personal life
[edit]Early life and education
[edit]Comrie was born in Sunderland, England on 23 May 1947. He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics from the University of Cambridge,[2][3] where he also taught Russian and Linguistics until he moved to the Linguistics Department of the University of Southern California.[4]
Personal life
[edit]He married linguistics professor Akiko Kumahira in 1985.[5][6]
Professional life
[edit]Academic career
[edit]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.[7]
Honours
[edit]Comrie was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[8] He became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000.[9] In September 2017, he was awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy.[10]
Selected works
[edit]Books
[edit]- The World's Major Languages (ed.), 1987, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-520521-9. Second edition: 2009, Routledge ISBN 978-0-415-35339-7.
- Tense, 1985, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139165815.
- The Languages of the Soviet Union, 1981, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Language Surveys), ISBN 0-521-23230-9 (hard covers) and ISBN 0-521-29877-6 (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
[edit]- 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. Ergativity. 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. Reference-tracking: Description and explanation. 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. ((http://wals.info/chapter/98))
- Keenan, Edward L. & Comrie, Bernard. 1977. Noun phrase accessibility and universal grammar. Linguistic Inquiry 8. 63–99.
References
[edit]- ^ "Bernard Comrie (Q705700)". Wikidata. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ "Bernard Comrie - Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Max Planck Institute. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
- ^ "Professor Bernard Comrie FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ "Bernard Comrie | Department of Linguistics - UC Santa Barbara". www.linguistics.ucsb.edu.
- ^ State of California. Marriage Index, 1960-1985. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California.
- ^ "Akiko Comrie". Loyola Marymount University. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
- ^ "Bernard Comrie". University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
- ^ "Professor Bernard Comrie". The British Academy. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
- ^ "B.S. Comrie". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ^ "Prize and medal winners 2017". The British Academy. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
External links
[edit]- 1947 births
- Living people
- Linguists from the United Kingdom
- University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- People from Sunderland
- Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Historical linguists
- Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society
- Recipients of the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics
- Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
- Linguists of Papuan languages
- Linguists of Piawi languages
- Linguists of Caucasian languages
- 20th-century linguists
- 21st-century linguists
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Max Planck Institute directors
- Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America
- Typologists