{"id":60901,"date":"2017-05-31T09:20:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T19:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=60901"},"modified":"2020-05-08T12:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:39:05","slug":"blust-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/31\/blust-lifetime-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics professor Bob Blust honored with lifetime achievement award"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_60946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60946\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-linguistics-boblust.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Bruno presenting Bob Blust an award\" width=\"620\" height=\"502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-linguistics-boblust.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-linguistics-boblust-260x211.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Bob Blust, right, with Vice Chancellor for Research Michael Bruno.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ling.hawaii.edu\/faculty\/blust\/\">Bob Blust<\/a><\/strong>, a professor in the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ling.hawaii.edu\/\">Department of Linguistics<\/a>,\u00a0was awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/ling.hawaii.edu\/tag\/lifetime-achievement-award\/\">Linguistics Lifetime Achievement in Research Award<\/a> for his contributions to the understanding of human language, and the Austronesian language family in particular.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice Chancellor for Research of <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/ovcr\/bio-bruno.html\">Michael Bruno<\/a><\/strong>, presented him with the award, noting the incredible quality and quantity of Professor Blust&#8217;s scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>His contributions to our understanding of the Austronesian language\u00a0is particularly noteworthy. The Austronesian language family includes languages such as Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Tagalog and Ilocano&#8212;languages of immense importance to the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Marcie Grabowski<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blust is recognized for his contributions to the understanding of human language, and the Austronesian language family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[163,598,215,9],"class_list":["post-60901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-college-of-languages-linguistics-and-literature","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-linguistics","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60901"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117901,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60901\/revisions\/117901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}