Bernard Comrie

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Bernard Comrie is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in language typology, universals, and the study of tense and aspect across languages.

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instanceOf human
linguist
almaMater Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
citizenship United Kingdom
countryOfBirth United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1947-05-23
doctoralThesisTopic aspects of Russian syntax
educatedAt Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
employer Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge

University of Southern California
familyName Comrie
fieldOfWork language typology
linguistic universals
linguistics
morphology
syntax
tense and aspect
gender male
givenName Bernard
hasAcademicAdvisor John Lyons
hasEdited The Languages of the Soviet Union
The World’s Major Languages
knownFor comparative syntax
cross-linguistic study of tense and aspect
research on linguistic universals
work on language typology
languageSpoken English
memberOf Linguistic Society of America
name Bernard Comrie self-link
nationality British
notableConcept cross-linguistic tense-aspect categories
typological markedness
notableWork Aspect
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Tense
The Atlas of Languages
The Languages of the Soviet Union
The Major Languages of Western Europe
occupation university teacher
placeOfBirth Sunderland
positionHeld Director of the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
researchInterest agreement systems
case marking
cross-linguistic comparison
grammatical categories

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Joseph Greenberg influencedScholar Bernard Comrie
Bernard Comrie name Bernard Comrie self-link