5-777: The Intercontinental Dictionary Series (commonly abbreviated as IDS ) is a large database of topical vocabulary lists in various world languages. The general editor of the database is Bernard Comrie of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology , Leipzig . Mary Ritchie Key of the University of California, Irvine is the founding editor. The database has an especially large selection of indigenous South American languages and Northeast Caucasian languages . The Intercontinental Dictionary Series' advanced browsing function allows users to make custom tables which compare languages in side-by-side columns. Below are
10-606: Is a British-born linguist. Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology , linguistic universals and on Caucasian languages . Comrie was born in Sunderland , England on 23 May 1947. He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics from the University of Cambridge , where he also taught Russian and Linguistics until he moved to the Linguistics Department of
15-668: The University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles . Comrie was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000. In September 2017, he was awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by
20-512: The University of Southern California . He married linguistics professor Akiko Kumahira in 1985. For 17 years he was 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 1 June 2015. He has also taught at
25-663: The languages that are currently included in the Intercontinental Dictionary Series. The languages are grouped by language families, some of which are still hypothetical. It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History . Bernard Comrie Bernard Sterling Comrie , FBA ( / ˈ b ɜːr n ər d ˈ k ɒ m r iː / ; born 23 May 1947)
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