Robert Blust

Robert Andrew Blust (9 Mei 1940 – 5 Januari 2022) adalah seorang pengkaji bahasa terkemuka menyentuh beberapa bidang, termasuk linguistik sejarah, leksikografi dan etnologi. Beliau mengkhusus dalam penyelidikan dan pengkajian bahasa-bahasa Austronesia di Universiti Hawaii di Manoa secara terus memberikan sumbangan besar dalam pengetahuan mengenai alam bahasa ini.

Kehidupan 
Robert Andrew Blust lahir pada 9 Mei 1940 di Cincinnati, Ohio, Amerika Syarikat. Beliau berpindah ke Long Beach, California ketika berumur empat tahun. Beliau melanjutkan pelajaran dalam bidang bahasa Inggeris.

Beliau meninggal dunia pada 5 Januari 2022 akibat sakit barah.

Penerbitan terpilih 

 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.
 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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Kelahiran 1940
Kematian 2022
Orang mati
Rencana yang mengandungi teks bahasa Cina