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Comrie has attempted to update the first edition (1981) to accommodate developments in typology and universals and in grammatical theory since 1980. His goal is to provide an introduction to "the study of language universals and typology from an, albeit slightly modified, Greenbergian perspective" (p. ix).
- Lyle Campbell
This paper investigates the meanings of the tenses and the system of time reference in English. It starts from a discussion of the celebrated theory of Reichenbach (1947) and the alternative recently proposed in Comrie's (1985) book on tense. The author argues that both theories are deficient in certain respects, and develops a theory which ...
The World's Major Languages. B. Comrie. Published1987. Linguistics. TLDR. This 1000 plus page reference work would certainly be a useful and impressive acquisition to any linguist's bookshelf and is a veritable mine of knowledge concerning language knowledge. Expand. View via Publisher. gbv.de.
This preface summarizes the wide-ranging claims about grammatical universals made by Greenberg (1966), a short book that is much less known by linguists than his 1963 article but that is equally important for understanding language systems.
- Nguyễn Thiên Thơ
Adopting an approach to the subject pioneered by Greenberg and others, Bernard Comrie is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case making, relative clauses, and causative constructions.
Perhaps the best known of these systems of categorization is Comrie’s (1976) taxonomy of the ‘types’ available to the perfect. Comrie’s claim is that these readings are part of the cross- linguistic category of present perfect (or ‘anterior’ following the terminology from Bybee et al. 1994).
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Bernard Sterling Comrie, [1] FBA (/ ˈbɜːrnərd ˈkɒmriː /; born 23 May 1947) is a British-born linguist. Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology, linguistic universals and on Caucasian languages. Personal life. Early life and education. Comrie was born in Sunderland, England on 23 May 1947.
