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Edited works The World's Major Languages Books The World's Major La, Aspect, The Slavonic Languages, The Russian language, Case and Grammatical Relations Similar People Martin Haspelmath, Stephen Matthews, Osten Dahl | ||
Dr bernard comrie santa barbara symposium on human origins ii
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.
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- Dr bernard comrie santa barbara symposium on human origins ii
- From languages to linguistics and back again prof bernard comrie
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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.