Bernard S. Comrie#
| Email: | comrie 'at' eva.mpg.de |
| Membership Number: | 2345 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Username: | bcomrie |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002—: Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara
- 1998—: Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of Leipzig
- 1997—: Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
- 1981–98: Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- 1978–81: Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- 1974–78: University Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Cambridge
- 1972–74: Senior Assistant in Research, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
- 1970–74: Junior Research Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge
- 1972 PhD University of Cambridge: Linguistics
Fields of Scholarship
- linguistics
- linguistic typology
- historical linguistics
- language documentation
- languages of the Caucasus
Honours and Awards
- Member, Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (since 1999)
- Corresponding Fellow, British Academy (since 1999)
- Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2000)
- Honorary Doctor of Letters, La Trobe University, Australia (2004)
- Member, Academia Europaea (since 2006)
- Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (since 2007)
- Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden (2010)
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