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Robert Blust

Communications

#73

World Rank

#160

Historical Rank

#43

USA Rank

Linguistics

#16

World Rank

#25

Historical Rank

#11

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Robert Blust's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Chicago
Masters Linguistics University of Chicago
Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Robert A. Blust was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including historical linguistics, lexicography and ethnology. He was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Blust specialized in the Austronesian languages and made major contributions to the field of Austronesian linguistics.

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The Austronesian Languages (2009) (299)
The Austronesian Homeland: A Linguistic Perspective (1985) (182)
Austronesian culture history: Some linguistic inferences and their relations to the archaeological record (1976) (147)
Austronesian root theory : an essay on the limits of morphology (1988) (103)
Reconstruction of Proto-Tsouic Phonology (1981) (83)
Beyond the Austronesian homeland : The austric hypothesis and its implications for archaeology (1996) (81)
From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change (review) (2000) (69)
Early Austronesian Social Organization: The Evidence of Language [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (69)
Must sound change be linguistically motivated (2005) (54)
Currents in Pacific linguistics : papers on Austronesian languages and ethnolinguistics in honour of George W. Grace (1991) (40)
The Proto-Oceanic palatals (1978) (40)
The linguistic value of the Wallace line (1982) (38)
Disyllabic attractors and anti-antigemination in Austronesian sound change* (2007) (35)
Coronal-noncoronal consonant clusters: New evidence for markedness☆ (1979) (33)
Austronesian culture history : The window of language (1996) (30)
A double counter‐universal in Kelabit 1 (1974) (25)
Patterns of sound change in the Austronesian languages (1991) (25)
Austronesian sibling terms and culture history (1993) (24)
The reconstruction of proto-Malayo-Javanic: an appreciation (1981) (20)
One mark per word? Some patterns of dissimilation in Austronesian and Australian languages* (2012) (20)
Note on PAN *qa(R) (CtT)a 'Outsiders, Alien People' (1972) (20)
The Austronesian Homeland and Dispersal (2019) (19)
Terror from the Sky: Unconventional Linguistic Clues to the Negrito Past (2013) (19)
A Note on Higher-Order Subgroups in Oceanic (1998) (18)
A Murik Vocabulary, with a note on the linguistic position of Murik (1974) (18)
The Phonestheme ¥- in Austronesian Languages (2003) (16)
The Oceanic languages (review) (2005) (14)
Kelabit-english vocabulary (1993) (14)
The Austronesian languages (Revised Edition) (2013) (12)
Between worlds : linguistic papers in memory of David John Prentice (2002) (12)
An overlooked feature of Malay historical phonology (1982) (12)
SEIMAT VOWEL NASALITY: A TYPOLOGICAL ANOMALY (1998) (12)
The origin of dragons (2000) (12)
Language and Culture History: Two Case Studies (1990) (11)
On the limits of the thunder complex' in Australasia. A reply to Gregory Forth (1991) (10)
Historical linguistics in Indonesia (1981) (10)
More on the origins of glottalic consonants (1980) (9)
The Linguistic Study of Indonesia (1987) (8)
Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction methodology in the Austronesian language family (1990) (8)
The long consonants of Long Terawan (1992) (8)
Odd conditions: Context-sensitive sound change in unexpected contexts (2017) (8)
35 Southeast Asian islands and Oceania: Austronesian linguistic history (2013) (8)
A short morphology, phonology and vocabulary of Kiput, Sarawak (2003) (7)
A note on hypercorrection in Mongondow (1983) (7)
A NOTE ON THE THAO PATIENT FOCUS PERFECTIVE (1998) (7)
The origins of Bintulu 6, d (1973) (6)
Thao Triplication. (Squib) (2001) (6)
The pitfalls of negative evidence: ‘Nuclear Austronesian’, ‘Ergative Austronesian’, and their progeny (2017) (6)
A NOTE ON COVERT STRUCTURE: CA- REDUPLICATION IN AMIS (1999) (6)
Thao Triplication (2001) (6)
i and u in the Austronesian languages (1970) (5)
Austronesian: A Sleeping Giant? (2011) (4)
Tumbaga in Southeast Asia and South America (1992) (4)
On Language and Early Austronesian Social Organization (1980) (4)
TONE-MELODY RELATIONSHIP IN CANTONESE (2010) (4)
The Proceedings of AFLA 23 PHILIPPINE-TYPE “VOICE” AFFIXES AS A’-AGREEMENT MARKERS: EVIDENCE FROM CAUSATIVES AND DITRANSITIVES* (2016) (4)
Historical Linguistics and Archaeology: An Uneasy Alliance (2017) (3)
The Fox's Wedding (2016) (3)
More odd conditions? Voiced obstruents as triggers and suppressors in Miri, Sarawak (2020) (3)
22. The prenasalised trills of Manus (2007) (2)
5. Austronesian root theory revisited (1988) (2)
Rat ears, tree ears, ghost ears and thunder ears n Austronesian languages (2000) (2)
5.4. The psychological reality of the root (1988) (2)
'Eye of the day': A Response to Urban (2010) (2011) (2)
Pointing, Rainbows, and the Archaeology of Mind (2021) (2)
Current Trends in Linguistics, VIII: Linguistics in Oceania (1978) (2)
Austronesian culture history: some linguistic (2016) (2)
8.1. Appendix 1 (1988) (1)
1 THE EFFECT OF MORA-TIMING ON THE DURATION OF VOWELS PRECEDING GEMINATE CONSONANTS (2005) (1)
Phonetic Realization of Medial Stop Consonants in Akuntsú (2013) (1)
ACQUISITION OF THE DISTRIBUTIVE MEANING OF THE EXTRINSIC PLURAL MARKER IN KOREAN (2012) (1)
THE HIGHER PHYLOGENY OF AUSTRONESIAN AND THE POSITION OF TAI-KADAI: ANOTHER LOOK1 (2014) (1)
ON THE AUSTRONESIAN HOMELAND : A CRITIQUE (2012) (1)
EFFECT OF CREAKY VOICE SIMULATION ON THIRD-TONE PERCEPTION IN MANDARIN CHINESE (2014) (1)
ARE PHILIPPINE LANGUAGES ERGATIVE ? EVIDENCE FROM WESTERN SUBANON C (2016) (1)
In Memoriam, Isidore Dyen, 1913–2008 (2009) (1)
Papers in Western Austronesian linguistics No. 2 (1977) (1)
On Early Austronesian Social Organization: Reply to Chowning (1981) (1)
The Liangdao skeleton and the dangers of overinterpretation (2016) (1)
Topics in Polynesian Language and Culture History [Book Review] (2002) (1)
THE INTERPRETATION AND TRANSITIVITY OF -UN/-AN IN TRUKU (2010) (1)
Papers in Borneo and Western Austronesian linguistics (1977) (1)
In Memoriam: Richard Bernard McGinn, Jr., 1939–2018 (2018) (1)
A SYNTACTIC APPROACH TO LEXICAL VARIATION IN THE MORPHOSYNTAX OF AMIS TRANSFER VERBS (2013) (1)
Pazih Dictionary (review) (2003) (1)
4.1. Control of chance (1988) (0)
Why Dragons Are Bisexual (2019) (0)
Papers in Borneo linguistics (1969) (0)
16 Historical Linguistics and Archaeology : An Uneasy Alliance 1 (2017) (0)
4. A critique of Brandstetter’s theory of the root (1988) (0)
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PROTO MALA YO-JAVANIC : AN APPRECIATION (2016) (0)
THE WUVULU VELAR OBSTRUENT PUZZLE (2012) (0)
6.3. Final consonant symbolism (1988) (0)
5.3. The root in linguistic comparison (1988) (0)
7. Implications for general linguistic theory (1988) (0)
Abbreviations Used in the Text (2018) (0)
MAJNEP, Ian Saem, and Ralph BULMER, in preparation. Animals the Ancestors Hunted: An Account of the Wild Mammals of the Kalam Area, Papua New Guinea. Based on English Text of Kalam Hunting Traditions (2010) (0)
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DOUBLE-OBJECT CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH AND THAI: THE MINIMALIST PROGRAM AND CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR (2004) (0)
4.6. The non-argument for word-base formatives (1988) (0)
2. The morpheme (1988) (0)
A dictionary of Owa, a language of the Solomon Islands by Greg Mellow (review) (2017) (0)
3. A synoptic history of Austronesian root theory (1988) (0)
5.2. The characteristics of the root (1988) (0)
‘Nuclear Austronesian’, ‘Ergative Austronesian’, and their progeny (0)
REFERENTIAL CHOICE IN KOREAN-SPEAKING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) (2017) (0)
PRODUCTION AND COMPREHENSION OF MALAY RELATIVE CLAUSES BY L1 CHILDREN (2019) (0)
In Memoriam, Howard Paul McKaughan, 1922–2013 (2014) (0)
Tables and Figures (2018) (0)
A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF ENGLISH DEMONSTRATIVES THIS AND THAT (2009) (0)
6.1. Initial consonant symbolism (1988) (0)
A RECONSTRUCTION OF PROTO-YUE VOWELS (2009) (0)
THE STATUS OF SUBJECT AND OBJECT PRONOMINAL ELEMENTS IN LUKUNOSH MORTLOCKESE (2013) (0)
THE RISE-FALL CONTOUR (2014) (0)
Reconstruction of Proto-Tsouic phonology By Shigeru Tsuchida (review) (2015) (0)
1 THE EFFECT OF A SINGLE FORMANT ON DIALECT IDENTIFICATION (2013) (0)
Chapter 3. Historical linguistics in the raw: My life as diachronic fieldworker (2018) (0)
RE-LABELING “ERGATIVE”: EVIDENCE FROM FORMOSAN* (2016) (0)
5.1. The empirical reality of the root (1988) (0)
Buginese; Renward Brandstetter at work (2012) (0)
Sourcebook on Tomini-Tolitoli languages: General information and word lists (review) (2005) (0)
PROSODIC ASPECTS OF HAWAI‘I ENGLISH: THE RISE-FALL CONTOUR (2014) (0)
1. On “root theory” (1988) (0)
SPLIT INTRANSITIVITY IN CANTONESE (2021) (0)
6. Related matters (1988) (0)
6.2. Medial consonant symbolism (1988) (0)
4.5. Arbitrariness of “root variation” (1988) (0)
Contributors (2012) (0)
In Memoriam, George William Grace, 1921–2015 (2015) (0)
Lexicography on the Internet – Austronesian Language Sources (2010) (0)
BASELINE RESULTS FROM A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC TOOL FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF LANGUAGE SHIFT IN TRUKU SEEDIQ (2010) (0)
FOR 'TWO': A SECOND LOOK1 (2016) (0)
ACQUISITION OF ENTAILMENT RELATIONS IN KOREAN CAUSATIVES (2011) (0)
THE ACQUISITION OF ERGATIVITY IN SAMOAN (2017) (0)
FORWARD AND BACKWARD FEATURE AGREEMENT : EVIDENCE FROM KOREAN NUMERAL CLASSIFIER CONSTRUCTIONS (2011) (0)
The Phonestheme [UNKEYBOARDABLE SYMBOL]-In Austronesian Languages (2003) (0)
NUMERAL CLASSIFIERS IN WESTERN SUBANON , A LANGUAGE OF THE PHILIPPINES (2017) (0)
5.5. The origin of roots (1988) (0)
1 VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION IN HAWAI ‘ I CREOLE ENGLISH : BIDIALECTAL EFFECTS ON READING (2005) (0)
4.3. Use of cognates to establish a root (1988) (0)
A Description of the Nominal Phrases of Southern Alta (2018) (0)
EARLY SENSITIVITY TO TELICITY : THE ROLE OF THE COUNT / MASS DISTINCTION IN EVENT INDIVIDUATION (2010) (0)
4.2. Failure to recognize regular sound change (1988) (0)
The Lowland Kenyah posterior implosives: A typological reversal (2017) (0)
The Phonestheme J- in Austronesian Languages (2016) (0)

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