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58
Citations
7559
World Ranking
1692
National Ranking
809

Overview

Robert Blust was affiliated with the University of Hawaii System in the United States. Their research contributions centered primarily in the social sciences, with a strong focus on linguistics and anthropology. Throughout their career, they produced work spanning various subfields, including linguistics and language, anthropology, experimental and cognitive psychology, language and linguistics, and communication.

The scientist's research topics encompassed multiple areas of linguistic and cultural study. These included linguistic variation and morphology, Philippine history and culture, phonetics and phonology research, syntax, semantics, and linguistic variation, as well as aspects of swearing, euphemism, multilingualism, natural language processing techniques, and Asian studies and history.

Among the notable publication venues where Robert Blust published were:

  • Oceanic Linguistics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Anthropos
  • Journal of Historical Linguistics
  • Phonology

Frequent collaborators included Simon J. Greenhill, Jason William Lobel, Erik R. Thomas, Stephen Trussel, and Alexander D. Smith.

Several recent papers highlight the scope and range of Blust's research contributions:

  • Pointing, Rainbows, and the Archaeology of Mind (2021, Anthropos)
  • CLDF dataset derived from Blust's "Austronesian Comparative Dictionary" (2023, Zenodo)
  • Response to Comments on "The Resurrection of Proto-Philippines" (2020, Oceanic Linguistics)
  • The Neogrammarian hypothesis and pandemic irregularity* (2022, Journal of Historical Linguistics)
  • More odd conditions? Voiced obstruents as triggers and suppressors in Miri, Sarawak (2020, Phonology)

Best Publications

  • The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics

    Simon J. Greenhill;Robert Blust;Russell D. Gray

  • CENTRAL AND CENTRAL- EASTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN

    Robert Blust

  • The Austronesian Languages

    Robert Blust

  • The Austronesian Homeland: A Linguistic Perspective

    Robert Blust

  • The prehistory of the Austronesian-speaking peoples: A view from language

    Robert Blust

  • Chamorro Historical Phonology

    Robert Blust

  • Early Austronesian Social Organization: The Evidence of Language [and Comments and Reply]

    Robert Blust;David F. Aberle;N. J. Allen;R. H. Barnes

  • Austronesian root theory : an essay on the limits of morphology

    Robert A. Blust

  • The Greater Central Philippines Hypothesis

    Robert Blust

  • Pacific Languages

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  • Notes on Pazeh Phonology and Morphology

    Robert Blust

  • Nasals and nasalization in Borneo

    Robert Blust

  • The Resurrection of Proto-Philippines

    Robert Blust

  • Some Recent Proposals Concerning the Classification of the Austronesian Languages

    Robert Blust

  • Beyond the Austronesian homeland : The austric hypothesis and its implications for archaeology

    Robert Blust

  • Linguistic Evidence for Some Early Austronesian Taboos

    Robert Blust

  • Proto-Austronesian Addenda

    Robert A. Blust

  • The linguistic value of the Wallace line

    Robert Blust

  • Notes on Berawan consonant gemination

    Robert Blust

  • Reconstruction of Proto-Tsouic Phonology

    R. A. Blust;Shigeru Tsuchida

  • The Greater North Borneo Hypothesis

    Robert Blust

  • Three Notes on Early Austronesian Morphology

    Robert Blust

  • Austronesian Nasal Substitution: A Survey

    Robert Blust

  • Is there a Bima-Sumba Subgroup?

    Robert Blust

  • Ca- REDUPLICATION AND PROTO- AUSTRONESIAN GRAMMAR'

    Robert Blust

  • Must sound change be linguistically motivated

    Robert A. Blust

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon J. Greenhill
Simon J. Greenhill Max Planck Society
Patrick V. Kirch
Patrick V. Kirch University of Hawaii at Manoa
Peter Bellwood
Peter Bellwood Australian National University
Thomas A. Sebeok
Thomas A. Sebeok Indiana University

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