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Larry Trask
Born
Robert Lawrence Trask
(1944-11-10)10 November 1944
Olean, New York, U.S.
Died
27 March 2004(2004-03-27) (aged 59)
Brighton, England
Spouses
Esther Barrutia (divorced)
Jan Lock
Academic background
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.Sc. in chemistry)
Brandeis University (M.Sc. in chemistry)
Polytechnic of Central London (B.A. in linguistics)
School of Oriental and African Studies (Ph.D. in linguistics)
Thesis
Synchronic and Diachronic Studies in the Grammar of Basque (1984)
Doctoral advisor
Charles Ernest Bazell
Academic work
Discipline
Linguist
Institutions
Middle East Technical University (c. 1970)
Polytechnic of Central London (1970s)
University of Liverpool (1979–1988)
University of Sussex (1988–2004)
Main interests
Basque language
Historical linguistics
Website
The Larry Trask Archive
Robert Lawrence Trask (10 November 1944 – 27 March 2004) was an American-British professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex, and an authority on the Basque language and the field of historical linguistics.
retrieved 2 March 2020 The LarryTrask Archive Interview with The Guardian Contributions to Ask-a-Linguist LarryTrask's review of The Atoms of Language:...
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John Trask (disambiguation) Katrina Trask, an author and philanthropist Keith Trask, a rower Kyle Trask (born 1998), an American football player Larry Trask...
which suggest that either: Aquitanian is the ancestor of Basque, and as LarryTrask puts it: "Aquitanian is so closely related to Basque that we can, for...
Important Basque Words (And a Bit of Culture)" Buber's Basque Page: The LarryTrask Archive: Some Important Basque Words (And a Bit of Culture) Zuazo, Koldo...
Kyle Jacob Trask (born March 6, 1998) is an American football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played...
Hulahuli' (a shrill sound made by wagging the tongue inside the mouth) Trask, LarryTrask. "Some Important Basque Words (And a Bit of Culture)". "Irrintzi"...
and the Old Southwest. BiblioLife. pp. 5–7. ISBN 978-0-559-06288-9. LarryTrask (1997). The History of Basque. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-13116-2. Jose Migel...
Functionalist and Cognitivist critiques. As another example, the linguist LarryTrask argues that the ergative case system of the Basque language is not a...
Guide to Punctuation Archived 20 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine, LarryTrask, University of Sussex: "American usage, however, does put an apostrophe...
book on the topic of: English in Use/Other Common Punctuation Marks LarryTrask: Guide to Punctuation – a helpful online resource History of Punctuation...
longer require punctuation to show ellipsis; some even proscribe it. LarryTrask, American author of The Penguin Guide to Punctuation, states categorically...
Cambridge University Press. pp. 409–451. ISBN 978-0-521-26474-7. Trask, Larry; Trask, Robert Lawrence (2010). Why Do Languages Change?. Cambridge University...
Basque and the languages of the Caucasus is denied by authors such as LarryTrask, who stated that the comparisons were wrongly made, given the fact that...
public "Statement on Racism in Academe" condemning Trask's remarks. In September 2021, following Trask’s death, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa philosophy...
Coast Communications, Inc. KLGE brands itself as "94.1 - The Lounge". LarryTrask (formally of KHUM) is the Program Director/Music Director of KLGE.[citation...
frequently in print and publication. In his book Mind The Gaffe, author LarryTrask advises readers to refrain from using it, and to use caution when reading...
rejected by most linguists, including Lyle Campbell, Ives Goddard, and LarryTrask. The last common ancestor of the family[vague] was estimated by phylogenetic...
28 November 2022. Robert Lawrence Trask, The History of Basque, (1997), p.328. "Buber's Basque Page: The LarryTrask Archive: Some Important Basque Words...
Press. p. 94. ISBN 9780719001765. Robert McColl Miller; LarryTrask (20 February 2015). Trask's Historical Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 9781317541769....
There a Metric for Convergence." In Colin Renfrew, April McMahon and LarryTrask (eds) Time Depth in Historical Linguistics Vol 2 (Papers in the Prehistory...
have been Lyle Campbell, Donald Ringe, William Poser, and the late R. LarryTrask. Greenberg is known widely for his development of a classification system...
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