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Robert A. Blust is a prominent linguist in several areas, including historical linguistics
Historical linguistics

Historical linguistics is the study of language change. It has five main concerns:* to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages;...
, lexicography
Lexicography

The pursuit of lexicography is divided into two related disciplines:*Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionary....
 and ethnology
Ethnology

Ethnology is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnicity, Race , and/or national divisions of humanity....
. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
, and raised in California
California

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. He received a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
 in anthropology
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
, and a PhD
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 in linguistics in 1974 from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa

The University of Hawaii at Manoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii. The school is located in Manoa, an urban neighborhood community of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and one mile from Ala Moana and Waik...
. He is a professor
Professor

The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
 in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and served as the department chair from 2005 to 2008. He currently serves as the review editor for the journal Oceanic Linguistics
Oceanic Linguistics

Oceanic Linguistics is an international academic journal devoted to the study of the thousand-odd indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia, including the Indigenous Australian languages of Australia, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian family....
. Blust is best known for his work on Austronesian languages
Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia....
, including a large Austronesian comparative dictionary (Blust 1995c) and a Thao
Thao language

Thao is the language of the Thao people, a tribe of Taiwanese aborigines in the region of Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan. In 2000 there were approximately 5 or 6 speakers, all but one of whom were over the age of sixty....
-English dictionary (Blust 2003b).






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Robert A. Blust is a prominent linguist in several areas, including historical linguistics
Historical linguistics

Historical linguistics is the study of language change. It has five main concerns:* to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages;...
, lexicography
Lexicography

The pursuit of lexicography is divided into two related disciplines:*Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionary....
 and ethnology
Ethnology

Ethnology is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnicity, Race , and/or national divisions of humanity....
. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
, and raised in California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. He received a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
 in anthropology
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
, and a PhD
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 in linguistics in 1974 from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa

The University of Hawaii at Manoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii. The school is located in Manoa, an urban neighborhood community of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and one mile from Ala Moana and Waik...
. He is a professor
Professor

The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
 in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and served as the department chair from 2005 to 2008. He currently serves as the review editor for the journal Oceanic Linguistics
Oceanic Linguistics

Oceanic Linguistics is an international academic journal devoted to the study of the thousand-odd indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia, including the Indigenous Australian languages of Australia, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian family....
. Blust is best known for his work on Austronesian languages
Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia....
, including a large Austronesian comparative dictionary (Blust 1995c) and a Thao
Thao language

Thao is the language of the Thao people, a tribe of Taiwanese aborigines in the region of Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan. In 2000 there were approximately 5 or 6 speakers, all but one of whom were over the age of sixty....
-English dictionary (Blust 2003b). Blust has done fieldwork on 97 Austronesian languages spoken in locations such as Sarawak
Sarawak

Sarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. Known as Bumi Kenyalang , it is situated on the north-west of the island. It is the largest state in Malaysia; the second largest, Sabah, lies to the northeast....
, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
, and Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
—the latter encompassing Formosan languages
Formosan languages

The Formosan languages are the languages of the Taiwanese aborigines of Taiwan. Taiwanese aborigines currently comprise about 2% of the island's population....
 such as Thao, Kavalan
Kavalan language

Kavalan was formerly spoken in the Northeast coast area of Taiwan by the Kavalan people . It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian languages family....
, Pazeh
Pazeh language

Pazeh is the language of the Pazeh people, a tribe of indigenous people on Taiwan . It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian languages language family....
, Amis
Amis language

Amis is the Formosan language of the Amis or Ami people, a tribe of indigenous people along the east coast of Taiwan . It is spoken from Hualien City in the north to Taitung City in the south, with another population near the southern end of the island, though the northern varieties are sometimes considered a separate language....
, Paiwan
Paiwan language

Paiwan is a native language of Taiwan, spoken by the Paiwan, one tribe of the Taiwanese aborigines. Paiwan is a Formosan languages of the Austronesian languages. The number of speakers is estimated to be 66,000....
 and Saisiyat
Saisiyat language

Saisiyat is the language of the Saisiyat people, a tribe of indigenous people on Taiwan . It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian languages family....
. He also has an abiding interest in both linguistic and cultural aspects of rainbow
Rainbows in mythology

The rainbow, a natural phenomenon noted for its beauty and inexplicability, has been a favorite component of mythology throughout history. The Norsemen saw it as Bifrost; Judeo-Christian traditions signs it as a covenant with God not to destroy the world by means of floodwater....
s and dragon
Dragon

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s.

Selected Publications

  • Blust, Robert. 1974. The Proto-North-Sarawak vowel deletion hypothesis. PhD dissertation. University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
  • Blust, Robert. 1977. The Proto-Austronesian pronouns and Austronesian subgrouping: a preliminary report. University of Hawai‘i Working Papers in Linguistics 9.2: 1–15.
  • Blust, Robert. 1988. Austronesian Root Theory: An Essay on the Limits of Morphology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Blust, Robert. 1993. *S metathesis and the Formosan/Malayo-Polynesian language boundary. In Oyvind Dahl, ed., Language — a doorway between human cultures: tributes to Dr. Otto Chr. Dahl on his ninetieth birthday, 178–183. Oslo, Novus.
  • 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 Hawai‘i at Manoa.
  • 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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