Bernard Comrie

Comrie was born in Sunderland, England on 23 May 1947. He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Cambridge.[1]

For 17 years he was 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 1 June 2015. He has also taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]

He married linguistics professor Akiko Kumahira in 1985.[3][4]

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]

• The World's Major Languages (ed.), 1987, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-520521-9. Second edition: 2009, Routledge ISBN 978-0-415-35339-7.
• Tense, 1985, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139165815.
• The Languages of the Soviet Union, 1981, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Language Surveys), ISBN 0-521-23230-9 (hard covers) and ISBN 0-521-29877-6 (paperback)
• Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology, 1981, The University of Chicago Press.
• Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems, 1976, Cambridge University Press.

• Homepage at the Max Planck Institute