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Bernard Comrie
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Bernard Comrie (born May 23, 1947 in Sunderland, UK) is a British-born linguist. He is a professor at and director of the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Between 1985 and 1986 he spent 12 months in New Guinea in the field working on the Haruai language. His linguistical main interests include language universals, typology, syntax and semantics.
- The World's Major Languages (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press 1987. ISBN 0-19-520521-9.
- 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)
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