Robert Blust
Robert Blust | |||||||
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Blust in 2017 | |||||||
| Born | Robert Andrew Blust May 9, 1940 | ||||||
| Died | January 5, 2022 (aged 81) | ||||||
| Other names | Bái Lèsī (白樂思) | ||||||
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| Education | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (BA, MA, PhD) | ||||||
| Thesis | The Proto-North Sarawak Vowel Deletion Hypothesis (1974) | ||||||
| Doctoral advisor | George W. Grace | ||||||
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| Institutions | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Leiden University | ||||||
| Notable students | K. Alexander Adelaar | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 白樂思 | ||||||
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| Website | www | ||||||
Robert A. Blust (/blʌst/; Chinese: 白樂思; pinyin: Bái Lèsī; May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022) 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.