Larry Trask
American linguist (1944–2004) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the X-Men character, see Larry Trask (comics).
Robert Lawrence Trask (10 November 1944 – 27 March 2004) was an American-British professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex, and an authority on the Basque language and the field of historical linguistics.
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Born | Robert Lawrence Trask (1944-11-10)10 November 1944 Olean, New York, U.S. |
Died | 27 March 2004(2004-03-27) (aged 59) Brighton, England |
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Thesis | Synchronic and Diachronic Studies in the Grammar of Basque (1984) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Ernest Bazell |
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Discipline | Linguist |
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Website | The Larry Trask Archive |
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