Robert Blust

**Robert A. Blust** (lahia 1940, Cino: 白樂思; pinyin: *<span lang="zh-Latn-pinyin">Bái Lèsī</span>*) adolah surang ahli bahaso&nbsp;takamuko dalam babarapo bidang, antaro lain&nbsp;linguistic historis, leksikografi, jo etnologi. Blust adolah spesialis pado&nbsp;rumpun bahaso Austronesia&nbsp;dan lah tamusaua ateh babagai sumbangan pantiangnyo di bidang ilimu bahaso Austronesia.

## Riwayaik iduik
Robert Blust lahia di&nbsp;Cincinnati, Ohio dan gadang di&nbsp;California, Amerika Sarikat. Baliau manarimo Bachelor of Arts di bidang&nbsp;antropologi&nbsp;jo PhD&nbsp;di bidang bahaso dari&nbsp;Universitas Hawaii di Mānoa pado 1974. Kini ko baliau adolah&nbsp;profesor di *Department of Linguistics* pado Universitas Hawaii di Mānoa, dan manjabaik sabagai kapalo department antaro 2005 inggo 2008.

### Rumpun bahaso Austronesia
Baliau panah juo manjabaik sabagai editor pamareso untuak *Oceanic Linguistics*, sabuah jurnal akademik nan mambahas tantang rumpun bahaso Austronesia. Blust tanamo tarutamo dek karyanyo tantang Austronesia, nan antaro lain kamuih gadang pabandiangan bahaso Austronesia (Blust 1995c) dan kamuih Thao-Inggirih (Blust 2003b). Karya takamuko lainnyo nan tabik taun 2009 adolah *The Austronesian Languages*, sabuah buku patamo nan dikarang surang diri nan mancakuik sadonyo aspek (fonologi, sintaks, morfologi, parubahan bunyi, klasifikasi, jll.) pado kaluargo bahaso Austronesia sacaro kasaluruahan.

### Karajo lapangan
Blust lah malakuan karajo lapangan taradok 97 bahaso Austronesia nan ditutuaan di babagai tampek, sarupo&nbsp;Sarawak, Papua Nugini, dan&nbsp;Taiwan. Di Taiwan, baliau lah manjalanan karajo lapangan tantang rumpun bahaso Formosa,&nbsp;sarupo&nbsp;Thao, Kavalan, Pazeh, Amis, Paiwan dan&nbsp;Saisiyat. Kamuih nan dibueknyo tantang bahaso&nbsp;Thao nan sangaik tarancam, kini adolah nan paliang langkok dibandiangan bahaso-bahaso Formosa lainnyo, nan mancapai labiah dari 1.100 alaman. Blust juo sabana baminaik taradok aspek bahaso jo budayo dari palangi&nbsp;jo&nbsp;naga.

## Publikasi tapiliah

* Blust, Robert. 1974. *The Proto-North-Sarawak vowel deletion hypothesis*. PhD dissertation. University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
* Blust, Robert. 1977. The Proto-Austronesian pronouns and Austronesian subgrouping: a preliminary report. *University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics* 9.2: 1–15.
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* Blust, Robert. 1993. *S metathesis and the Formosan/Malayo-Polynesian language boundary. In 
* Blust, Robert. 1995a. The position of the Formosan languages: method and theory in Austronesian comparative linguistics. In Paul Jen-kuei Li et al., eds., *Austronesian Studies Relating to Taiwan*: 585—650. Symposium Series of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, No. 3. Taipei: Academia Sinica.
* Blust, Robert. 1995b. ''Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD)''. Honolulu: University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
* Blust, Robert. 1996. Some remarks on the linguistic position of Thao. *Oceanic Linguistics* 35: 272–294.
* Blust, Robert. 1999. Pazeh phonology and morphology. *Oceanic Linguistics* 38.2: 321–365.
* Blust, Robert. 2003a. Three notes on early Austronesian morphology. *Oceanic Linguistics*, 42.2: 438–478.
* Blust, Robert. 2003b. *Thao dictionary*http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/publ_m_d.asp-aid=9.htm . Language and Linguistics Monograph Series, No. A5. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics (Preparatory Office), Academia Sinica.ISBN 978-957-01-4785-8
* Blust, Robert. 2003c. *A short morphology, phonology and vocabulary of Kiput, Sarawak*. Shorter Grammars. Pacific Linguistics 546. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.
* Blust, Robert. 2005. Must sound change be linguistically motivated? *Diachronica* 22: 219–269.
* Blust, Robert. 2006. The origin of the Kelabit voiced aspirates: a historical hypothesis revisited. *Oceanic Linguistics* 45.2: 311–338.
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## Rujuakan

* Zeitoun, Elizabeth (, 2007). Three Western scholars' contributions to Formosan linguistics . Paper presented at "The International Conference for the 100th anniversary of linguistics in Taiwan: In honor of the linguistics pioneer Professor Naoyosi Ogawa". 8–9 September 2007. National Taichung University, Taichung, Taiwan ROC.
* Robert A. Blust, UH-Manoa Linguistics Department 
* LinguistList “Linguist of the Day”: Robert Blust 
* 白樂思—台灣原住民歷史語言文化大辭典網路版 (Robert Blust—Dictionary of Taiwan Aboriginal History, Language and Culture &mdash; online edition)