Bernard Comrie
Bernard S. Comrie, FBA (/ˈbɜːrnərd
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Early life and education[edit]
Comrie was born on 23 May 1947 in Sunderland, England. He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Cambridge.[1]
Academic career[edit]
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.[2]
Personal life[edit]
He married linguistics professor Akiko Kumahira in 1985.[3][4]
Honours[edit]
Comrie was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[5] He became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000.[6] In September 2017, he was awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy.[7]
Selected works[edit]
- 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)
References[edit]
- ^ "Bernard Comrie - Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Max Planck Institute. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ^ "Bernard Comrie". University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ^ 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 2015-11-22. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ^ "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.
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