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{{Short description|American-British linguist (1944–2004)}}
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| birth_name         = Robert Lawrence Trask
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1944|11|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Olean, New York]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2004|03|27|1944|11|10|df=yes}}
| death_place        = [[Brighton]], England
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| spouse             = {{ubl|Esther Barrutia (divorced)|Jan Lock}}
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| website            = {{url|buber.net/Basque/Euskara/Larry/WebSite/|The Larry Trask Archive}}
| education          = {{ubl|[[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]] (B.Sc. in chemistry)|[[Brandeis University]] (M.Sc. in chemistry)|[[University of Westminster#1970–1992: Polytechnic of Central London|Polytechnic of Central London]] (B.A. in linguistics)|[[SOAS|School of Oriental and African Studies]] (Ph.D. in linguistics)}}
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| thesis_title       = Synchronic and Diachronic Studies in the Grammar of Basque
| thesis_url         = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339723
| thesis_year        = 1984
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| doctoral_advisor   = Charles Ernest Bazell
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| discipline         = [[Linguistics|Linguist]]
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'''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]].