Education
University of Cambridge.
University of Cambridge.
Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology and linguistic universals, and on Caucasian languages. He was for 17 years professor at and director of the former Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, combined with a post as Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he returned full-time from 1st June 2015. He has also taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Los Angeles
He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Cambridge.
The Languages of the Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Language Surveys) 1981. (hard covers) and (paperback).
Saxonian Academy of Sciences. Academia Europaea.
