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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernard Comrie canonical | 2 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
human
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linguist ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Cambridge University
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surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-05-23 ⓘ |
| doctoralThesisTopic | aspects of Russian syntax ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cambridge University
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surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| employer |
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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University of California, Santa Barbara ⓘ Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
University of Southern California ⓘ |
| familyName | Comrie ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
language typology
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linguistic universals ⓘ linguistics ⓘ morphology ⓘ syntax ⓘ tense and aspect ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bernard ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | John Lyons ⓘ |
| hasEdited |
The Languages of the Soviet Union
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The World’s Major Languages ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comparative syntax
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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
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typological markedness ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aspect
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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
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Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
agreement systems
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case marking ⓘ cross-linguistic comparison ⓘ grammatical categories ⓘ |
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