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Robert Blust
Blust in 2017
Born
Robert Andrew Blust

(1940-05-09)May 9, 1940
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
DiedJanuary 5, 2022(2022-01-05) (aged 81)
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Other namesBái Lèsī (白樂思)
Academic background
EducationB.A. in Anthropology (1967),

M.A. in Linguistics (1968),

PhD in Linguistics (1974), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
ThesisThe Proto-North Sarawak Vowel Deletion Hypothesis (1974)
Doctoral advisorGeorge W. Grace
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Leiden University
Notable studentsK. Alexander Adelaar
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese白樂思
Websitewww.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.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ^ "Editorial". Language & Linguistics in Melanesia. 40. Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea. January 7, 2022. ISSN 0023-1959.

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Malagasy (spoken on Madagascar) are the geographic outliers. According to Robert Blust (1999), Austronesian is divided into several primary branches, all but...

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Blust or blust in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blust is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christina Blust, musician John Blust (born...

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Greater North Borneo languages

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Southeast Asia. The Greater North Borneo hypothesis was first proposed by Robert Blust (2010) and further elaborated by Alexander Smith (2017a, 2017b). The...

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Maritime Southeast Asia

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included in this. Peter Bellwood includes Taiwan in his definition, as does Robert Blust, whilst there are examples that do not. The 16th-century term "East Indies"...

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Boondocks

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society. Retrieved May 21, 2014. Robert Blust & Stephen Trussel. "Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *bunduk". Austronesian...

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Formosan languages

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entire Austronesian language family. According to American linguist Robert Blust, the Formosan languages form nine of the ten principal branches of the...

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Philippine languages

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or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines...

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Bintulu language

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Bintulu or Vaie is an Austronesian language of Borneo. Robert Blust leaves it as an isolate within the North Sarawakan languages. Ethnologue notes that...

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Andamanese languages

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Austronesian and Ongan has not been supported by Austronesianists, and Robert Blust (2014) finds that Blevins' conclusions are not supported by her data:...

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Bakunawa

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Robert Blust & Stephen Trussel. "Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *ba(ŋ)kuq". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Retrieved 7 July 2018. Robert Blust...

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Dragon

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animals (historical or otherwise) have ever been found in this region." Robert Blust in The Origin of Dragons (2000) argues that, like many other creations...

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Atayalic languages

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languages are a group of Formosan languages spoken in northern Taiwan. Robert Blust considers them to form a primary branch within the Austronesian language...

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Old Tagalog

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the ancient history of the language; linguists such as David Zorc and Robert Blust speculate that the Tagalogs and other Central Philippine ethno-linguistic...

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Onge

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this proposal has not been well received by other linguists, such as Robert Blust, who concludes that the hypothesis is not supported by the comparative...

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Taiwan

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Borneo), and all of the islands of Indonesia to the west of New Guinea." Robert Blust: "The major western island groups include the great Indonesian, or Malay...

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John Blust

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John Marshall Blust (born June 4, 1954) is a former Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the state's sixty-second House...

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Austric languages

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for the greater part as methodologically unsound by several reviewers. Robert Blust, a leading scholar in the field of Austronesian comparative linguistics...

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Soul dualism

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Editrice Pontifica Universita Gregoriana. pp. 148–149. ISBN 9788876528484. Robert Blust; Stephen Trussel. "*du". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Retrieved...

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Aspirated consonant

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fricatives, with new evidence from Pumi, Lingua 121.9:1518–1538 [1] Robert Blust, 2006, "The Origin of the Kelabit Voiced Aspirates: A Historical Hypothesis...

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Greater Central Philippine languages

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in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. This subgroup was first proposed by Robert Blust (1991) based on lexical and phonological evidence, and is accepted by...

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Comparative linguistics

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Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust, ed. K. A. Adelaar and A. Pawley, 375–397. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics...

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Ongan languages

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result of contact/borrowing, a position also held by Hoogervorst (2012). Robert Blust (2014) argues that Blevins' conclusions are not supported by her data...

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Pasig

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May 29, 2022 Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen. "pasiR sandbank, shoal in river or sea". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Robert Blust and Stephen Trussel...

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