Bernard S. Comrie#
| Membership Number: | 2345 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/bernard-comrie |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - 2021 Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara (Retired since 2021)
- 1998 - 2015 Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of Leipzig (Emeritus since 2015)
- 1997 - 2015 Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Emeritus since 2015)
- 1981 - 1998 Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- 1978 - 1981 Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- 1974 - 1978 University Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Cambridge
- 1972 - 1974 Senior Assistant in Research, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
- 1970 - 1974 Junior Research Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge
- 1972 PhD University of Cambridge: Linguistics
Fields of Scholarship
- Linguistics
- Linguistic typology
- Languages of the Caucasus
- Languages of New Guinea
- Historical linguistics
- Language documentation
Honours and Awards
- since 2015 Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
- 2010 Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden
- since 2007 Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America
- since 2006 Member, Academia Europaea
- 2004 Honorary Doctor of Letters, La Trobe University, Australia
- since 2000 Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- since 1999 Corresponding Fellow, British Academy
- since 1999 Corresponding Member (1999–2015: Member), Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig
