Larry Trask

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Larry Trask
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
Spouses	Esther Barrutia (divorced) Jan Lock
Academic background
Education	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.Sc. in chemistry) Brandeis University (M.Sc. in chemistry) Polytechnic of Central London (B.A. in linguistics) School of Oriental and African Studies (Ph.D. in linguistics)
Thesis	Synchronic and Diachronic Studies in the Grammar of Basque (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Charles Ernest Bazell
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Institutions	Middle East Technical University (c. 1970) Polytechnic of Central London (1970s) University of Liverpool (1979–1988) University of Sussex (1988–2004)
Main interests	Basque language Historical linguistics
Website	The Larry Trask Archive

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.