Robert Blust
Robert Blust | |
|---|---|
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. | |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Bái Lèsī (白樂思) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.A. in Anthropology (1967),
M.A. in Linguistics (1968), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Leiden University |
| Notable students | K. Alexander Adelaar |
| Chinese name | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Bái Lèsī |
Robert A. Blust (
Early life and career
Blust was born in
Austronesian languages
Until 2018, he served as the review editor for Oceanic Linguistics, an academic journal that covers the Austronesian languages. Blust is best known for his work on this large language family, including the comprehensive Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (1995) and a Thao-English dictionary (2003). Another one of his well-known works is a 2009 work called The Austronesian Languages, which is the first single-authored book to cover all aspects (phonology, syntax, morphology, sound changes, classification, etc.) of the Austronesian language family in its entirety.
Field work
As part of his field work, Blust studied 97 Austronesian languages spoken in locations such as Sarawak, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan. In Taiwan, he performed field work on Formosan languages such as Thao, Kavalan, Pazeh, Amis, Paiwan and Saisiyat. His dictionary of the highly endangered Thao language, at over 1100 pages, is one of the most complete ever compiled for a Formosan language. Blust also had an abiding research interest in both linguistic and cultural aspects of rainbows and dragons.
Personal life and death
Blust died in
See also
- Austronesian Hypothesis
Selected publications
- Blust, Robert (1974). The Proto-North-Sarawak vowel deletion hypothesis (PhD). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
- Blust, Robert (1977). "The Proto-Austronesian pronouns and Austronesian subgrouping: a preliminary report". University of Hawaiʻi Working Papers in Linguistics. 9 (2): 1–15.
- Blust, Robert (1988). Austronesian Root Theory: An Essay on the Limits of Morphology. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 90-272-3020-X.
- Blust, Robert (1993). "*s metathesis and the Formosan/Malayo-Polynesian language boundary". In Dahl, Øyvind (ed.). Language, a Doorway Between Human Cultures: Tributes to Dr. Otto Chr. Dahl on His Ninetieth Birthday. Novus Forlag. ISBN 978-82-7099-205-8.
- Blust, Robert (1995). "The position of the Formosan languages: method and theory in Austronesian comparative linguistics". In Li, Paul Jen-kuei; Tsang, Cheng-hwa; Huang, Ying-kuei; Ho, Dah-an; Tseng, Chiu-yu (eds.). Austronesian Studies Relating to Taiwan. Symposium Series of the Institute of History and Philology. Vol. 3. Taipei: Academia Sinica. pp. 585–650.
- Blust, Robert (December 1996). "Some Remarks on the Linguistic Position of Thao". Oceanic Linguistics. 35 (2). University of Hawaiʻi Press: 272–294. JSTOR 3623175.
- Blust, Robert (1999). "Notes on Pazeh Phonology and Morphology". Oceanic Linguistics. 38 (2). University of Hawaiʻi Press: 321–365. JSTOR 3623296.
- Blust, Robert (2003). "Three Notes on Early Austronesian Morphology". Oceanic Linguistics. 42 (2). University of Hawaiʻi Press: 438–478. JSTOR 3623246.
- Blust, Robert (2003). Thao Dictionary (PDF). Language and Linguistics, Monograph Series A5. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics (Preparatory Office), Academia Sinica. ISBN 978-957-01-4785-8. Archived from the original(PDF) on January 21, 2022.
- Blust, Robert (2003). A short morphology, phonology and vocabulary of Kiput, Sarawak. Shorter Grammars. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 0858835363.
- Blust, Robert A. (2005). "Must sound change be linguistically motivated?". Diachronica. 22 (2). John Benjamins: 219–269. ISSN 1569-9714.
- Blust, Robert (2006). "The Origin of the Kelabit Voiced Aspirates: A Historical Hypothesis Revisited". Oceanic Linguistics. 45 (2). University of Hawaiʻi Press: 311–338. S2CID 145261116.
- Blust, Robert (2009). The Austronesian languages. Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-85883-602-0.
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen. "The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary".
- Blust, Robert (2023). The Dragon and the Rainbow: Man's Oldest Story. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 978-90-04-67829-3.
References
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- ^ "LSA Fellows by Name". Linguistic Society of America.
- Zeitoun, Elizabeth (2007). "Three Western scholars' contributions to Formosan linguistics" (PDF). The International Conference for the 100th anniversary of linguistics in Taiwan: In honor of the linguistics pioneer Professor Naoyosi Ogawa. National Taichung University of Education. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 24, 2011. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
- "Robert A. Blust". University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Linguistics Department. Archived from the original on January 6, 2022. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
- Townsend, Bethany. "Robert Blust". Linguist of the Day. LinguistList. Archived from the original on December 21, 2013.
- "Dictionary of Taiwan Aboriginal History, Language and Culture" (in Chinese). Archived from the original on May 13, 2021.
- Chen, Victoria (February 21, 2022). "In Memoriam: Dr. Robert A. Blust, 1940–2022". Taiwan Insight.
External links
- Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD) by Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel, & Alexander D. Smith (web edition)
