Robert Blust

Robert Blust
Robert Blust
	Blust in 2017
Born	Robert Andrew Blust; May 9, 1940; Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Died	January 5, 2022 (aged 81); 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), PhD in Linguistics (1974), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Thesis	The Proto-North Sarawak Vowel Deletion Hypothesis (1974)
Doctoral advisor	George W. Grace
Academic work
Institutions	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Leiden University
Notable students	K. Alexander Adelaar
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	白樂思
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Bái Lèsī
Website	www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/blust/

Robert A. Blust (/blʌst/; Chinese: 白樂思; pinyin: Bái Lèsī; May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022^[1]^[2]^[3]) 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.

^ Lobel, Jason William (2022). "In Memoriam: Dr. Robert A. Blust, 1940–2022". Obituary. Language and Linguistics. 23 (2): 141–146. doi:10.1075/lali.00116.lob.
^ Lobel, Jason William, Victoria Chen and Lani Blust-Char (2022). "In Memoriam: Robert A. Blust, 1940–2022". Oceanic Linguistics. 61 (2): 614–649. doi:10.1353/ol.2022.0010. S2CID 250269537.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Editorial". Language & Linguistics in Melanesia. 40. Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea. January 7, 2022. ISSN 0023-1959.