Bernard ComrieBernard Comrie is Distinguished Faculty Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was formerly Director of the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. His main inerests are language universals and typology, historical linguistics, linguistic fieldwork, and languages of New Guinea, the North Caucasus, and the Andaman Islands. He is Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Academy’s Neil & Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics. Read More Read Less