Bernard Sterling Comrie (born 1947) is a British linguist who specializes in linguistic typology, linguistic universals and the Caucasian languages. His research examines patterns across the world's languages, identifying how different languages organize similar grammatical features and contributing significantly to comparative and cross-linguistic analysis; this work has made him a leading figure in the study of linguistic universals, the search for principles of language structure that hold across otherwise unrelated languages.
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RoleBritish linguist specializing in linguistic typology, linguistic universals and Caucasian languages 1 Connections
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Comrie's Language Universals and Linguistic Typology explicitly adopts and builds on Greenberg's program of language universals and typological correlations.
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Bernard Sterling Comrie, FBA (born 23 May 1947) is a British linguist.
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Bernard Sterling Comrie, FBA (born 23 May 1947) is a British linguist.
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Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology, linguistic universals and on Caucasian languages.
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Bernard Sterling Comrie (born 1947) is a British linguist who specializes in linguistic typology, linguistic universals and the Caucasian languages.
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