Bernard Comrie is a British-born linguist. Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology

Linguistic typology

Linguistic typology is a subfield of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features. Its aim is to describe and explain the common properties and the structural diversity of the world's languages...

 and linguistic universals, and on Caucasian languages.

He currently a professor at and director of the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1997. It is part of the Max Planck Society network....

 in Leipzig

Leipzig

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, Germany

Germany

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, and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

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. He has also taught at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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 and the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

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. He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Cambridge.

Partial bibliography

• The World's Major Languages (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press 1987, ISBN 0-19-520521-9; second edition, Routledge 2009, ISBN 978-0415353397.
• 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)

External links

• Homepage at the Max Planck Institute