Bernard Comrie ( born Bernard Comrie ; pronounced / bɜːnəd kɒmriː / ; born May 23, 1947 , Sunderland ) is a British linguist who lives in the United States and has long worked in Germany ; one of the largest and most famous modern typologists , a polyglot , fluent in many European and non-European languages (including Russian ).
| Bernard Comrie | |
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| English Bernard comrie | |
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| Place of Birth | Sunderland |
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| Scientific field | linguistics |
| Place of work | University of California, Santa Barbara (since 2002) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (1997—2015) |
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| Known as | one of the creators of the World Atlas of Language Structures |
| Awards and prizes | [d] |
One of the directors of the Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology. Max Planck in Leipzig , first chairman of the International Association of Linguistic Typology (1995-1999), professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara (since 2002), corresponding member of the British Academy (since 1999), foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2016), honorary member many other foreign academies and an honorary doctor of many universities.
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Biography
The initial period of scientific activity of Comrie is associated with the University of Cambridge , which he graduated in 1968 and where he later defended his thesis ( 1972 ) and taught various courses until 1978 , including at the Department of Slavic Studies. From 1978 to 1998, he works in the United States , teaching at the University of Southern California ( Los Angeles ). In 1997, he headed the Linguistics Department of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig , which, under the leadership of Comrie, became the largest research center in linguistic typology in Europe (and one of the most significant in the world). (The branch was closed in 2015 due to Comry's retirement.)
In the late 1970s. took an internship in the Soviet Union , studying the non-Slavic languages of the USSR (in particular, the languages of the Far North and the Caucasus ); maintains active personal contacts with many Russian typologists.
Wife - Akiko Kumahira Komri, a linguist by training, in 1988 defended a dissertation in the USA on “floating quantifiers ” in Japanese [1] .
President of the European Linguistic Society in 2007-2008.
Contribution to Science
The scientific interests of Comrie are diverse, but his main works are devoted to the development of the theory of language universals , grammatical and syntactic typology and typological study of the languages of the world. He was engaged in intensive field work in different areas (from Dagestan to New Guinea ), in his research he actively uses material from Indo-European , Uralic , Japanese , Nakh-Dagestan , Chukchi-Kamchatka , Semitic , Australian , Papuan and many other languages. The most famous are his monographs on the theory of linguistic universals in morphology and syntax (1981), as well as typological reviews of categories of the form (1976, revised editions 1978 and 1981, the book has withstood 9 editions and has also been translated into Japanese and Korean ) and time ( 1985) in the languages of the world. Comrie took an active part in the Leipzig project of the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), published in 2005, and is currently continuing to study the languages of the Caucasus .
Main publications
- Aspect: an introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems . Cambridge University Press, 1976.
- The languages of the Soviet Union . Cambridge University Press, 1981.
- Language universals and linguistic typology: syntax and morphology . Oxford: Blackwell, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
- Tense . Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- The world's major languages / Ed. by Bernard Comrie. London: Croom Helm, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
- Comrie B., Matthews S., Polinsky M., Aitschison D. Atlas of world languages . M .: Face press, 1998. - ISBN 5-7833-100-X
- The World Atlas of Language Structures / Ed. by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil and Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Khalilov M. Sh. , Komri B. Dictionary of languages and dialects of the peoples of the North Caucasus: a comparison of the main vocabulary . Leipzig, Makhachkala: Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology. Max Planck, 2010. - ISBN 978-3-00-035064-1
Notes
- ↑ Comrie, Akiko Kumahira (1988). On so-called quantifier floating in Japanese. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern California.