Bernard Comrie

Biographic Data

ID113863
NAMEBernard Comrie
GIVEN NAMESBernard
FAMILY NAMEComrie
SIGNATURECOMRIE B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
ORCID0000-0003-0487-7005
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS179
TOTAL CITATIONS488
AUTHOR COUNT167
EDITOR COUNT12
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX11

  • Marcación Diferencial De Objeto Y Referencialidad en Quichua Santiagueño

    Open AccessY Referencialidad En, Quichua Santiagueño et al.ARTICLEDialectologia2022

    El quichua santiagueo (quechua, Argentina) es una lengua de alineamiento nominativo-acusativo con marcacin de casos en los dependientes. En esta investigacin se sostiene que la distribucin del sufijo de caso acusativo (-ta) no responde exclusivamente al parmetro sintctico, sino que dicha marcacin es sensible a las propiedades semnticas del referente que se expresa. La distribucin del marcador -ta interacta con otros constituyentes y sufijos de la…

  • Correlations of valency alternations and morphological types: A typological perspective

    Open AccessPingping Ge, Bernard ComrieARTICLELingua2022References: 5

  • The Major Languages of East and South-East Asia

    Bernard ComrieBOOKMajor Languages of East and…2021

  • Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia

    Bernard Comrie, N J EnfieldBOOKLanguages of Mainland Southeast…2021

  • Resurrecting the Linguistic Past: What we can learn from Akabea (Andaman Islands)

    Open AccessBernard Comrie, Raoul ZamponiARTICLECadernos de Linguística e Teoria…2021Cited by: 1References: 12

    Akabea belongs to the Great Andamanese family, one of the two indigenous language families of the Andaman Islands. All that remains today of this family is a handful of "rememberers" of so-called Present-day Great Andamanese, based on the language furthest removed from Akabea. None of the traditional languages was the subject of professional linguistic documentation or analysis. However, two government officials collected extensive material, with…

  • A bird’s-eye view on South Asian languages through LSI: Areal or genetic relationships

    Open AccessLars Borin, Anju Saxena et al.ARTICLEJournal of South Asian Languages…2020

    We present initial exploratory work on illuminating the long-standing question of areal versus genealogical connections in South Asia using computational data visualization tools. With respect to genealogy, we focus on the subclassification of Indo-Aryan, the most ubiquitous language family of South Asia. The intent here is methodological: we explore computational methods for visualizing large datasets of linguistic features, in our case 63 featu…

  • Revisiting Greenberg’s “Generalizations about Numeral Systems” (1978)

    Open AccessBernard ComrieARTICLEJournal of Universal Language2020

    This article examines seven of the 54 generalizations on numeral systems presented by Greenberg in 1978 either as absolute universals or as universal tendencies. Five of the generalizations deal with details of the arithmetic structure of numeral systems, with particular reference to the order of elements in the numeral expression and to the use of subtraction and related phenomena in numeral expressions. It is shown that the details of these gen…

  • The World's Major Languages

    B Wald, H Gibson et al.BOOKWorld's Major Languages2018

  • World's Major Languages

    Bernard ComrieBOOKWorld's Major Languages2018

  • World Atlas of Language Structures

    Open AccessMartin Haspelmath, Inc Wolfram Research et al.DATASETWolfram Research Data Repository2017

  • Elisión De La Raíz Verbal

    Open AccessBernard Comrie, Raoul ZamponiARTICLELinguistica2017

    La elisin de la raz verbal es un fenmeno atestiguado inequvocamente solo en dos lenguas habladas en Amrica y una familia lingstica de las Islas Andamn. Consiste en la elisin de la raz del verbo, en primer lugar bajo condiciones de recuperabilidad, dejando solamente afijos (y eventualmente clticos) y, de esta manera, sometiendo a prueba los lmites de la teora y de las posibilidades morfolgicas. El fenmeno es aqu examinado en las lenguas pertinente…

  • Languages of the World

    Open AccessBernard ComrieOTHERThe Handbook of Linguistics2017References: 3

    This chapter provides an overview of current views on the distribution of the languages of the world and on the genetic relations among those languages. It discusses the languages of Europe and northern Asia, which include the Indo-European language family, the Uralic language, Altaic families, and Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages. The chapter also talks about primarily with languages of Southeast Asia and its island extensions into Oceania. These i…

  • Language Contact and Documentation / Contacto lingüístico y documentación

    Bernard Comrie, Lucía GolluscioBOOKLanguage contact and documentation2015

    The volume is highly relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languages, language contact, documentation and areal typology. The publication is the outcome of a fruitful theoretical and methodological exchange between Latin American scholars and international scholars working in other regions. Most of the papers target Latin American languages. Additionally, new insight into the contact situations in Indonesia, …

  • Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art

    N J Enfield, Bernard ComrieBOOKLanguages of Mainland Southeast…2015

    Linguistics; Anthropology; Mainland Southeast Asia

  • Explanations for Language Universals

    Bernard Comrie, Brian Butterworth et al.BOOKExplanations for Language…2014Cited by: 12

  • Language contact and documentation: Contacto lingüístico y documentación

    Bernard Comrie, Lucía GolluscioBOOKLanguage contact and documentation2014

  • Alignment typology, reflexives, and reciprocals in Tsezic languages

    Open AccessBernard Comrie, Diana Forker et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2014

    Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Languages of the Caucasus (2013), pp. 32-51

  • Evolutionary linguistics: Theory of Language in an Interdisciplinary Space

    Tao Gong, Lan Shuai et al.ARTICLELanguage Sciences2014Cited by: 3References: 74

  • Argument structure and grammatical relations: A Crosslinguistic Typology

    Pirkko Suihkonen, Bernard Comrie et al.BOOKArgument structure and…2012

  • Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook

    Balthasar Bickel, Manoj Rai et al.BOOKStudies in Ditransitive…2010

    This rich volume deals comprehensively with cross-linguistic variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions: constructions formed with verbs (like give) that take Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. For the first time, a broadly cross-linguistic perspective is adopted. The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twenty-odd in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents…

  • Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007

    Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri et al.BOOKIntroducing Maltese linguistics2009

    This collection of articles highlights a selection of on-going research projects. Phonological, morphological, and syntactic issues are addressed by international experts on Maltese. The diachronic development of Maltese, its age-long contact with Italo-Romance, and the present diglossic situation with co-official English are the topics of a variety of contributions to this volume. The repercussions that the promotion of Maltese to the status of …

  • The World's Major Languages

    Bernard ComrieBOOKWorlds Major Languages Ed22009

  • Worlds Major Languages Ed2

    Bernard ComrieBOOKWorlds Major Languages Ed22009

    This book describes the most interesting features of over 50 of the world's major languages and language groups

  • Obituary In memoriam Michael Noonan

    Bernard ComrieARTICLEStudies in Language2009

  • Case and grammatical relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie

    Bernard Comrie, Greville G Corbett et al.BOOKCase and grammatical relations2008

    "The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how many cases Russian has and whether Hungarian has a case system at all, the issue of case-combining, the retention of the dative in Swedish dialects, and…