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65
Citations
36271
World Ranking
1002
National Ranking
467

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2000 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Bernard Comrie is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, with a particular focus on Language and Linguistics as well as related subfields including Linguistics and Language, Artificial Intelligence, Communication, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Comrie's work addresses topics such as Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Swearing, Euphemism and Multilingualism, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Categorization and Perception in Language, and Multilingual Education and Policy.

They have contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • World Atlas of Language Structures (2020), published in Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online
  • Revisiting Greenberg's "Generalizations about Numeral Systems" (1978)* (2020), Journal of Universal Language
  • Resurrecting the Linguistic Past (2021), Cadernos de Linguística
  • A bird's-eye view on South Asian languages through LSI (2020), Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
  • The Tsez Annotated Corpus Project (2022), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authorship with Raoul Zamponi, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Martín Haspelmath, A.K. Abdulaev, and I.K. Abdullaev.

Comrie's publications have appeared in a variety of venues with notable frequency, including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Universal Language, Cadernos de Linguística, Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Lingua.

In addition to journal articles, Comrie has authored books published by major academic presses. These include:

  • A Grammar of Akajeru: Fragments of a traditional North Andamanese dialect (2021), published by UCL Press
  • A Grammar of Akabea (2020), published by Oxford University Press

Bernard Comrie has been recognized by prestigious scientific institutions, being named a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2006 and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems

    Bernard Comrie

  • Language universals and linguistic typology : syntax and morphology

    Bernard Comrie

  • Noun Phrase Accessibility and Universal Grammar

    Edward L. Keenan;Bernard Comrie

  • The World Atlas of Language Structures

    Martin Haspelmath;Matthew S. Dryer;David Gil;Bernard Comrie

  • Ditransitive constructions: A typological overview

    Andrej L. Malchukov;Martin Haspelmath;Bernard Comrie

  • The World's Major Languages

    Bernard Comrie

  • The Languages of the Soviet Union

    Bernard Comrie

  • The Russian language in the twentieth century

    Bernard Comrie;Gerald Stone;Maria Polinsky

  • Causatives and transitivity

    Bernard Comrie;Maria Polinsky

  • The Syntax of Causative Constructions: Cross-Language Similarities and Divergences

    Bernard Comrie

  • Logophoric Reference in Gokana

    Larry M. Hyman;Bernard Comrie

  • The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World

    Bernard Comrie;Stephen Matthews;Maria Polinsky

  • DATA ON THE NOUN PHRASE ACCESSIBILITY HIERARCHY

    Edward L. Keenan;Bernard Comrie

  • Typology of resultative constructions

    V. P. Nedi︠a︡lkov;Bernard Comrie

  • Language typology : cross-linguistic studies in syntax

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  • The Slavonic Languages

    Bernard Comrie;Greville G. Corbett

  • Noun Phrase Accessibility Revisited

    Bernard Comrie;Edward L. Keenan

  • Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes

    Petra Maria Vogel;Bernard Comrie

  • Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Lexical nominalization

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  • Discourse Perspectives on Syntax

    Bernard Comrie;Flora Klein-Andreu

  • The Languages of the Soviet Union

    Charles E. Gribble;Bernard Comrie

  • Toward a Linguistic Theory of Speech Acts

    John R. Searle;Jerrold M. Sadock

  • Time in language.

    Bernard Comrie

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Polinsky
Maria Polinsky University of Maryland, College Park
Martin Haspelmath
Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
N. J. Enfield
N. J. Enfield University of Sydney
Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth University College London
Östen Dahl
Östen Dahl Stockholm University
Joseph H. Greenberg
Joseph H. Greenberg Stanford University
Larry M. Hyman
Larry M. Hyman University of California, Berkeley
William Croft
William Croft University of New Mexico
Greville G. Corbett
Greville G. Corbett University of Surrey
Ingo Plag
Ingo Plag Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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