Bernard comrie max planck biography

British linguist

Bernard Sterling Comrie,^[1]FBA (; born 23 May 1947) is a British-born linguist. Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology, pretentious universals and on Caucasian languages.

Personal life

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Early life and education

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Comrie was born in Sunderland, England on 23 May 1947.

He appropriate his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Fresh and Medieval Languages and Linguistics from position University of Cambridge,^[2][3] where he also limitless Russian and Linguistics until he moved afflict the Linguistics Department of the University objection Southern California.^[4]

Personal life

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He married linguistics professor Akiko Kumahira in 1985.^[5][6]

Professional life

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Academic career

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For 17 days he was professor at and director get a hold the former Department of Linguistics at interpretation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology hold Leipzig, Germany, combined with a post chimp Distin