Robert Blust

8.9k total citations
173 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Robert Blust is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Blust has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Linguistics and Language, 83 papers in Language and Linguistics and 60 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Robert Blust's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (115 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (49 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (40 papers). Robert Blust is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (115 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (49 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (40 papers). Robert Blust collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Australia. Robert Blust's co-authors include Terry Crowley, Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, John Lynch, Graham Thurgood, Charles A. Bishop, Thomas N. Headland, Peter M. Gardner, Karl L. Hutterer and Lawrence A. Reid and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Language and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Robert Blust

144 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Blust United States	27	1.3k	986	751	644	527	173	2.7k
Andrew Pawley Australia	19	474 0.4×	627 0.6×	252 0.3×	562 0.9×	155 0.3×	48	1.6k
Mark Donohue Australia	18	537 0.4×	561 0.6×	291 0.4×	317 0.5×	212 0.4×	98	1.6k
Lyle Campbell United States	25	1.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.9×	634 0.8×	69 0.1×	560 1.1×	103	3.1k
Nicholas Evans Australia	23	767 0.6×	1.4k 1.4×	1.0k 1.4×	84 0.1×	670 1.3×	98	2.8k
Claire Bowern United States	23	614 0.5×	599 0.6×	392 0.5×	70 0.1×	677 1.3×	89	1.6k
Søren Wichmann Germany	26	594 0.5×	520 0.5×	467 0.6×	63 0.1×	906 1.7×	125	2.1k
Koen Bostoen Belgium	20	532 0.4×	491 0.5×	195 0.3×	70 0.1×	257 0.5×	122	1.6k
Terrence Kaufman United States	15	885 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	315 0.4×	53 0.1×	259 0.5×	35	1.7k
Johanna Nichols United States	21	816 0.6×	1.2k 1.3×	440 0.6×	34 0.1×	533 1.0×	80	2.0k
Laurent Sagart France	15	248 0.2×	272 0.3×	335 0.4×	114 0.2×	161 0.3×	73	1.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Blust, Robert. (2023). Repair and Drift in Austronesian Languages: Avoidance of Dissimilar Labials as the Onsets of Successive Syllables. Oceanic Linguistics. 62(2). 304–323.

Blust, Robert. (2023). The Dragon and the Rainbow.

Blust, Robert. (2022). A Dictionary of Austronesian Monosyllabic Roots (Submorphemes).

Blust, Robert. (2018). Two Birds with One Stone: The Aerodynamic Voicing Constraint and the Languages of Borneo. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

Blust, Robert. (2015). Longhouses and Nomadism: Is There a Connection?. 46. 194.

Blust, Robert & Alexander D. Smith. (2014). A bibliography of the languages of Borneo (and Madagascar). 2 indexed citations

Koch, Harold, Robert Mailhammer, Robert Blust, et al.. (2014). Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics. Diachronica. 31(2). 267–278. 4 indexed citations

Blust, Robert. (2013). Terror from the Sky: Unconventional Linguistic Clues to the Negrito Past. Human Biology. 85(1-3). 401–416. 13 indexed citations

Blust, Robert. (2010). Malaita-Micronesian Once Again. Oceanic Linguistics. 49(2). 559–567. 2 indexed citations

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Blust, Robert. (2002). The History of Fanual Terms in Austronesian Languages. Oceanic Linguistics. 41(1). 89–89. 1 indexed citations

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Blust, Robert. (1998). Seimat Vowel Nasality: A Typological Anomaly. Oceanic Linguistics. 37(2). 298–298. 6 indexed citations

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Blust, Robert. (1993). Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia . By M.D. Ross (Pacific Linguistics C98.) Canberra: Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1988. Pp. xiii, 487.. Language. 69(1). 186–192. 63 indexed citations

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Blust, Robert. (1986). The historical relationships of the languages of central Maluku, Indonesia . By James T. Collins (Materials in languages of Indonesia, 13; Pacific Linguistics, D-47.) Canberra: Australian National University, 1983. Pp. ix, 168.. Language. 62(2). 471–472. 25 indexed citations

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Blust, Robert & James Collins. (1986). Penyusunan salasilah bahasa di Malaysia : kumpulan karya. 1 indexed citations

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Blust, Robert. (1985). Language and living things : Uniformities in folk classification and naming. By Cecil H. Brown New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 306. $35.00.. Language. 61(4). 891–897. 81 indexed citations

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Blust, Robert, et al.. (1985). Telaah komparatif bahasa Nusantara Barat : kumpulan karya Robert A. Blust.

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Blust, Robert. (1981). Reconstruction of Proto-Tsouic phonology. By Shigeru Tsuchida. (Studies of languages and cultures of Asia and Africa, Monograph series, 5.) Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1976. xxx, 329 pp.. Language. 57(1). 205–211. 50 indexed citations

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Blust, Robert. (1978). Current trends in linguistics, VIII : Linguistics in Oceania. Edited by Thomas A. Sebeok. Associate editors: J. Donald Bowen, Isidore Dyen, George W. Grace, Stephen A. Wurm. Assistant editor: Geoffrey N. O'Grady. Assistants to the editor: Alexandra Ramsay, Lucia Hadd Zoercher. The Hague: Mouton: Mouton, 1971. Pp. xv, 1,381 (two parts, separately bound). f 240.00.. Language. 54(2). 467–480. 3 indexed citations

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Blust, Robert, et al.. (1977). Papers in Borneo and Western Austronesian linguistics. 1 indexed citations

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Blust, Robert. (1970). Proto-Austronesian Addenda. Oceanic Linguistics. 9(2). 104–104. 42 indexed citations

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