Larry Trask

Larry Trask

:"For the X-Men character see Larry Trask (comics)"

Robert Lawrence "Larry" Trask (November 10, 1944 - March 27, 2004) was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex and an authority on the Basque language and historical linguistics.

Born in upstate New York, USA, he initially studied chemistry in his home country, but after a brief stint in the Peace Corps he took an interest in linguistics. He received his PhD in linguistics from the University of London, and thereafter taught at various universities in the United Kingdom. He became a professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex.

He was an authority on the Basque language: his book "The History of Basque" (1997) is an essential reference on diachronic Basque linguistics and probably the best introduction to Basque linguistics as a whole. He was at work compiling an etymological dictionary of that language when he died, posthumously published by Max W. Wheeler ( [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/documents/lxwp23-08_edb.pdf Etymological Dictionary of Basque] , 2008). He was also an authority on historical linguistics, and had written about the problem of the origin of language.He also published two introductory books to linguistics: "Language: The basics" (1995) and "Introducing Linguistics" (coauthored with Bill Mayblin) (2000), and several dictionaries on different topics of this science: "A dictionary of grammatical terms in linguistics" (1993), "A dictionary of phonetics and phonology" (1996), "A student's dictionary of language and linguistics" (1997), "Key concepts in language and linguistics" (1999), "The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics" (2000) and "The Penguin dictionary of English grammar" (2000).

Other of his books include:

* "Language change" (1994)
* "Historical Linguistics" (1996), ISBN 0-340-60758-0
* "The Penguin Dictionary of English Grammar" (2000), ISBN 0-14-051464-3
* "Time Depth in Historical Linguistics" (co-editor) (2000), ISBN 1-902937-06-6
* "Mind the Gaffe" (2001), ISBN 0-14-051476-7
* "How to Write Effective Emails" (2005), ISBN 0-14-101719-8

External links

* [http://www.buber.net/Basque/Euskara/Larry/WebSite/ The Larry Trask Archive]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/interview/story/0,12982,984721,00.html Interview] with "The Guardian"
* [http://cf.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/ask-ling/search-ask-ling1.cfm Contributions] to [http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/ Ask-a-Linguist]
* [http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/trask.html Larry Trask's review of "The Atoms of Language: The Mind’s Hidden Rules of Grammar" by Mark C. Baker]
*http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/department/docs/punctuation/node00.html
* Obituaries
** [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1187897,00.html The Guardian]
** [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/16/db1603.xml The Telegraph]
** [http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-1055.html Linguist List]
** [http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2020722.html Peace Corps Online]
** [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/press_office/bulletin/23apr04/article10.shtml University of Sussex Newsletter (includes a photograph)]


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