Colloquium: Bernard Comrie
Exploiting the World Atlas of Language Structures: New Directions in Areal Typology
| What | Colloquium |
|---|---|
| When |
2009-03-11 04:00 PM
2009-03-11 06:00 PM
March 11, 2009 from 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm |
| Where | Memorial Union: Mee Room |
| Contact Name | Beatriz Wilgohs |
| Contact Email | bwillgohs@ucdavis.edu |
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Professor Comrie is the Director of the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara. He is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests span a broad range, from linguistic universals and typology, to language history and evolution, language documentation, and 
the languages of the Caucasus. He has published numerous articles and books, including The World Atlas of Language Structures (Oxford University Press, 2005, co-edited with M. Haspelmath, M.S. Dryer, and David Gil), Sprache und Vorzeit [Language and Prehistory] (Verlag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2002), The Library of Babel (Walter de Gruyter, 2001, with M. Haspelmath), The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1996, with D. Stone & M. Polinsky), Tense (Cambridge University Press, 1988), Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems (Cambridge University Press, 1976), and Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology (University of Chicago Press, 1981).
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