Dr. Anthony Woodbury

Biography

Anthony Woodbury's research focuses on the indigenous languages of the Americas, revealing variances in human linguistics. In 2003, he engaged with current students in the documentation and description of Chatino, an Otomanguean language group from Oaxaca, Mexico, supported by grants from the Endangered Language Documentation Programme and the National Science Foundation. He has worked on Yupik-Inuit-Aleut languages in Alaska, particularly Cup’ik. His research themes include tone prosody, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, ethnopoetics, and the endangerment and preservation of languages, as well as documentary linguistics. He is the co-director of the digital Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America (www.ailla.utexas.org) at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, also supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, obtained in 1981, and both a B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, completed in 1975.

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