Prof Comrie is awesome. The little bit of homework you do helps prepare you for the intense midterm and final that require heavy memorization. The term paper is a little intense but just be sure to start thinking about it early on and ask Prof Comrie if you have any questions. Loved this course!
Extremely intelligent and helpful professor. Lecture content can be quite fascinating. Written midterm & final were pretty doable as long as you go through the outlines posted online and remember the important points. Term paper kind of long but you have a lot of freedom in writing it. Quite a fair bit of homework but not too terrible.
Comrie is incredibly intelligent and easy to understand. My only complaint would be that the homework is significantly harder than what we learn in lecture. Maybe I had problems with the HW because I didn't take morphology beforehand.
Future UCSB ling majors will be so lucky to have Bernard teaching more than one class a year. This guy is THE MAN - he's a brilliant and famous linguist teaching you the fundamentals of syntax and in a smart, intuitive way. I would have liked to see more practice in class, but just listening to him speak is worth gold. He is awesome.
If you take morphology before taking this class, it will be super easy for you! I love Comrie's lectures. He's super intelligent and definitely willing to help students discover their post-graduate life afterwards. Super clear instructions and quick at responding to email. I really enjoyed having him. We are very lucky!
I liked everything about this class. I learned a lot without getting stressed out. The prof was organized, clear, and helpful. The paper will sneak up on you, so you shouldn't overestimate your ability to write one quickly. I'd take another class from him, easily.
He was a very helpful teacher, the class was easy, he told you exactly what you needed to know for each test. There is one paper which sneaks up becuause he wants you to talk to him about a topic.Just pick something and go with it. Dont buy the reader he sends out PDF's and everything you would need