PhD in Linguistics (1974), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Thesis
The Proto-North Sarawak Vowel Deletion Hypothesis (1974)
Doctoral advisor
George W. Grace
Academic work
Institutions
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Leiden University
Notable students
K. Alexander Adelaar
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
白樂思
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Bái Lèsī
Website
www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/blust/
Robert A. Blust (/blʌst/; Chinese: 白樂思; pinyin: Bái Lèsī; May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022[1][2][3]) was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including historical linguistics, lexicography and ethnology. He was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Blust specialized in the Austronesian languages and made major contributions to the field of Austronesian linguistics.
^Lobel, Jason William (2022). "In Memoriam: Dr. Robert A. Blust, 1940–2022". Obituary. Language and Linguistics. 23 (2): 141–146. doi:10.1075/lali.00116.lob.
^Lobel, Jason William, Victoria Chen and Lani Blust-Char (2022). "In Memoriam: Robert A. Blust, 1940–2022". Oceanic Linguistics. 61 (2): 614–649. doi:10.1353/ol.2022.0010. S2CID 250269537.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"Editorial". Language & Linguistics in Melanesia. 40. Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea. January 7, 2022. ISSN 0023-1959.
Robert A. Blust (/blʌst/; Chinese: 白樂思; pinyin: Bái Lèsī; May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022) was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including...
Malagasy (spoken on Madagascar) are the geographic outliers. According to RobertBlust (1999), Austronesian is divided into several primary branches, all but...
Blust or blust in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blust is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christina Blust, musician John Blust (born...
Southeast Asia. The Greater North Borneo hypothesis was first proposed by RobertBlust (2010) and further elaborated by Alexander Smith (2017a, 2017b). The...
included in this. Peter Bellwood includes Taiwan in his definition, as does RobertBlust, whilst there are examples that do not. The 16th-century term "East Indies"...
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society. Retrieved May 21, 2014. RobertBlust & Stephen Trussel. "Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *bunduk". Austronesian...
entire Austronesian language family. According to American linguist RobertBlust, the Formosan languages form nine of the ten principal branches of the...
or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and RobertBlust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines...
Bintulu or Vaie is an Austronesian language of Borneo. RobertBlust leaves it as an isolate within the North Sarawakan languages. Ethnologue notes that...
Austronesian and Ongan has not been supported by Austronesianists, and RobertBlust (2014) finds that Blevins' conclusions are not supported by her data:...
animals (historical or otherwise) have ever been found in this region." RobertBlust in The Origin of Dragons (2000) argues that, like many other creations...
the ancient history of the language; linguists such as David Zorc and RobertBlust speculate that the Tagalogs and other Central Philippine ethno-linguistic...
languages are a group of Formosan languages spoken in northern Taiwan. RobertBlust considers them to form a primary branch within the Austronesian language...
for the greater part as methodologically unsound by several reviewers. RobertBlust, a leading scholar in the field of Austronesian comparative linguistics...
Borneo), and all of the islands of Indonesia to the west of New Guinea." RobertBlust: "The major western island groups include the great Indonesian, or Malay...
in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. This subgroup was first proposed by RobertBlust (1991) based on lexical and phonological evidence, and is accepted by...
Laurent (2016). "The wider connections of Austronesian: A response to Blust (2009)". Diachronica. 33 (2): 255–281. doi:10.1075/dia.33.2.04sag. Fortescue...
this proposal has not been well received by other linguists, such as RobertBlust, who concludes that the hypothesis is not supported by the comparative...
fricatives, with new evidence from Pumi, Lingua 121.9:1518–1538 [1] RobertBlust, 2006, "The Origin of the Kelabit Voiced Aspirates: A Historical Hypothesis...
result of contact/borrowing, a position also held by Hoogervorst (2012). RobertBlust (2014) argues that Blevins' conclusions are not supported by her data...
May 29, 2022 Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen. "pasiR sandbank, shoal in river or sea". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. RobertBlust and Stephen Trussel...
15% of Indonesia's total population. According to American linguist RobertBlust, Sundanese is closely related to the Malayic languages, as well as to...
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