John Benjamins Publishing

Bernard Comrie

is author/editor of the following titles:

Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries

Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells

[Typological Studies in Language, 116] 2017. vi, 381 pp.

New Perspectives on the Origins of Language

Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 144] 2013. xvi, 582 pp.

Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology

Edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 126] 2012. xv, 406 pp.

Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview

Edited by Bernard Comrie and Zarina Estrada-Fernández

[Typological Studies in Language, 102] 2012. xiii, 307 pp.

Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007

Edited by Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri, Elizabeth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz and Martine Vanhove

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 113] 2009. xi, 422 pp.

Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts

Fredric Field

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 62] 2002. xviii, 255 pp.

Causatives and Transitivity

Edited by Bernard Comrie and Maria Polinsky

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 23] 1993. x, 399 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume III: Salt Lake City, Utah 1989

Edited by Bernard Comrie and Mushira Eid

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 80] 1991. xii, 274 pp.

Typology of Resultative Constructions: Translated from the original Russian edition (1983)

Edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

[Typological Studies in Language, 12] 1988. xx, 573 pp.

is editor/board member of the following book series:

Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS)

Typological Studies in Language (TSL)

is editor/board member of the following journals:

NOWELE

Asian Languages and Linguistics (ALaL)

Language and Linguistics (L&L)

is author of the following articles:

Comrie, Bernard. 2019. “Possessive chains and Possessor Camouflage”. In Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia, 51–84

Davies, John and Bernard Comrie. 2019. “Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai”. In Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity, 13–26

Comrie, Bernard, Diana Forker and Zaira Khalilova. 2018. “Chapter 3. Affective constructions in Tsezic languages”. In Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, 55–82

Comrie, Bernard, Diana Forker and Zaira Khalilova. 2017. “General noun-modifying clause constructions in Hinuq and Bezhta, with a note on other Daghestanian languages”. In Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries, 121–146

Comrie, Bernard, Peter Sells and Yoshiko Matsumoto. 2017. “Conclusion”. In Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries, 331–337

Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells. 2017. “Noun-modifying clause constructions in languages of Eurasia”. In Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries, 3

Comrie, Bernard. 2016. “Finiteness in Haruai”. In Finiteness and Nominalization, 71–82

Comrie, Bernard. 2016. “Measuring language typicality, with special reference to the Americas”. In Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun, 363–384

Comrie, Bernard, Diana Forker and Zaira Khalilova. 2016. “Chapter 7. Insubordination in the Tsezic Languages”. In Insubordination, 171–182

Comrie, Bernard. 2015. “From the Leipzig Glossing Rules to the GE and RX lines”. In Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, 207–219

Comrie, Bernard. 2013. “Ergativity”. In The Acquisition of Ergativity, 15–34

Cysouw, Michael and Bernard Comrie. 2013. “Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages”. In Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, 383–394

Comrie, Bernard. 2012. “Introduction”. In Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology, xiii–xvi

Comrie, Bernard. 2012. “Some argument-structure properties of ‘give’ in the languages of Europe and Northern and Central Asia”. In Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology, 17–36

Comrie, Bernard and Zarina Estrada-Fernández. 2012. “Introduction”. In Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview, ix–xiv

Kuteva, Tania and Bernard Comrie. 2012. “The evolution of language and elaborateness of grammar”. In Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview, 27–46

Comrie, Bernard. 2011. “Creoles and language typology”. In Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, 599–611

Comrie, Bernard. 2010. “Typology”. In Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives, 234–238

Comrie, Bernard. 2009. “Maltese and the World Atlas of Language Structures”. In Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007, 3

Comrie, Bernard. 2008. “Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages”. In Language Contact and Contact Languages, 15–32

Comrie, Bernard. 2008. “Subordination, coordination: Form, semantics, pragmatics”. In Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages, 1–16

Kuteva, Tania and Bernard Comrie. 2006. “The typology of relative clause formation in African languages”. In Studies in African Linguistic Typology, 209–228

Comrie, Bernard. 2004. “5. Oblique-case subjects in Tsez”. In Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 1, 113

Comrie, Bernard. 2003. “Left, right, and the cardinal directions”. In Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier, 51–58

Polinsky, Maria and Bernard Comrie. 2003. “Constraints on Reflexivization in Tsez”. In Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson, 265–289

Comrie, Bernard. 2002. “Participles in Tsez”. In Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson, 19–30

Comrie, Bernard. 2002. “6. Morphophonological alternations”. In Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000, 73–89

Comrie, Bernard. 2001. ““Love your enemies””. In Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, 59–72

Comrie, Bernard. 2000. “Review of “Creolization and language change” by Dany Adone and Ingo Plag (eds.)”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:1, 221–225

Horie, Kaoru and Bernard Comrie. 2000. “Introduction”. In Complementation: Cognitive and functional perspectives, 1–10

Comrie, Bernard. 1999. “Relative clauses”. In The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston, 81

Comrie, Bernard. 1999. “40. Gender Affixes in Tsez”. In The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, 279

Comrie, Bernard and Maria Polinsky. 1999. “Form and Function in Syntax”. In Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies, 77

Polinsky, Maria and Bernard Comrie. 1999. “Possessor Raising in a Language that Does Not Have Any”. In External Possession, 523

Comrie, Bernard. 1998. “Regular Sound Correspondences and Long-Distance Genetic Comparison”. In Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence, 271

Comrie, Bernard and Maria Polinsky. 1998. “The great Daghestan case coax”. In Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake, 95

Nicholas, Nick and Bernard Comrie. 1998. “Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic Developments in the History of English. Ed. by Andreas H. Jucker, Thoughts on Grammaticalization. By Christian Lehmann”. Diachronica 15:1, 165–174

Comrie, Bernard. 1997. “Perspectives on Grammaticalization. Ed. by William Pagliuca”. Diachronica 14:1, 163–166

Comrie, Bernard. 1997. “Markedness”. In Handbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment, 1–13

Comrie, Bernard. 1997. “The Typology of Predicate Case Marking”. In Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón, 39

Comrie, Bernard. 1997. “Wehr, Barbara. SE-Diathese im Italienischen”. Studies in Language 21:3, 712–714

Comrie, Bernard. 2003. “Markedness”. In Handbook of Pragmatics Online,

Comrie, Bernard. 1996. “Some thoughts on being minimal”. In Theoretical Linguistics and Grammatical Description: Papers in honour of Hans-Heinrich Lieb, 77–87

Comrie, Bernard. 1995. “Jazyki mira: Ural'skie jazyki”. Studies in Language 19:2, 573–575

Comrie, Bernard. 1995. “Typology”. In Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, 551–553

Comrie, Bernard. 2003. “Typology”. In Handbook of Pragmatics Online,

Comrie, Bernard and Kaoru Horie. 1995. “Complement Clauses versus Relative Clauses”. In Discourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar, 65

Comrie, Bernard. 1993. “Some remarks on causatives and transitivity in Haruai”. In Causatives and Transitivity, 315

Comrie, Bernard. 1991. “On the Importance of Arabic to General Linguistic Theory”. In Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, 3

Comrie, Bernard. 1991. “How much pragmatics and how much grammar”. In Pragmatics at Issue: Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17–22, 1987, 81–92

Comrie, Bernard. 1990. “Language Typology 1987: Systematic Balance in Language. Ed. by Winred P. Lehmann”. Diachronica 7:2, 273–276

Comrie, Bernard and Stephen Matthews. 1990. “Prolegomena to a typology of Tough Movement”. In Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday, 43

Comrie, Bernard. 1989. “A Select Catalog of Language Universals. By Gyula Décsy”. Diachronica 6:1, 137–139

Comrie, Bernard. 1989. “Translatability and Language Universals”. In Universals of Language, 53–67

Comrie, Bernard. 1989. “Chapter 18. Word order in the Germanic Languages — Subject-verb or verb second?: Evidence from aphasia in Scandinavian languages”. In Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook, 1357–1364

Comrie, Bernard. 1988. “Foreword”. In Typology of Resultative Constructions: Translated from the original Russian edition (1983), ix

Comrie, Bernard. 1988. “Passive and voice”. In Passive and Voice, 9

Comrie, Bernard. 1987. “Grammatical relations, semantic roles and topic-comment structure in a New Guinea Highland language”. In Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, 355

Comrie, Bernard. 1986. “Werner Abraham (ed.), On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania”. Studies in Language 10:1, 241–247

Comrie, Bernard. 1985. “Hansjakob Seiler and Christian Lehmann (eds.). Apprehension: das sprachliche Erfassen von Gegenstanden”. Studies in Language 9:3, 459–462

Comrie, Bernard. 1984. “Russian”. In Interrogativity: A colloquium on the grammar, typology and pragmatics of questions in seven diverse languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th 1981-May 3rd 1982, 7

Comrie, Bernard. 1984. “Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions. By Paul Kent Andersen”. Diachronica 1:2, 255–260

Comrie, Bernard. 1984. “Why linguists need laguage acquirers”. In Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, 11

Comrie, Bernard. 1983. “Switch-reference in Huichol: A typological study”. In Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981, 17

Comrie, Bernard. 1982. “Alexander M. Schenker and Edward Stankiewicz, eds. The Slavic Literary Languages: Formation and Development”. Language Problems and Language Planning 6:3, 336–339

Comrie, Bernard. 1979. “Simon C. Dik. Functional Grammar”. Studies in Language 3:2, 267–276