Robert Blust

Robert A. Blust (lahia 1940, Cino: 白樂思; pinyin: Bái Lèsī) adolah surang ahli bahaso takamuko dalam babarapo bidang, antaro lain linguistic historis, leksikografi, jo etnologi. Blust adolah spesialis pado rumpun bahaso Austronesia dan lah tamusaua ateh babagai sumbangan pantiangnyo di bidang ilimu bahaso Austronesia.

Riwayaik iduik 
Robert Blust lahia di Cincinnati, Ohio dan gadang di California, Amerika Sarikat. Baliau manarimo Bachelor of Arts di bidang antropologi jo PhD di bidang bahaso dari Universitas Hawaii di Mānoa pado 1974. Kini ko baliau adolah 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 Sarawak, Papua Nugini, dan Taiwan. Di Taiwan, baliau lah manjalanan karajo lapangan tantang rumpun bahaso Formosa, sarupo Thao, Kavalan, Pazeh, Amis, Paiwan dan Saisiyat. Kamuih nan dibueknyo tantang bahaso 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 jo 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.
 
 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 . 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.

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 — online edition)  

Ahli bahaso
Urang Amerika Sarikat
Urang iduik
Lahia 1940