Dr. Anthony Woodbury

Biography

Anthony C. Woodbury holds the Jesse H. Jones Regents Professorship in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He has been a faculty member at UT since 1980 and has served as chair of the Linguistics Department for nine years. In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and has held the positions of Vice-President and President of the Society between 2022 and 2023. His research interests primarily focus on Indigenous languages of the Americas, exploring contemporary and historic linguistic creativity as expressed by speakers. His work with Yupik-Inuit-Unangan languages began in 1973, particularly focusing on Cup'ik in Chevak, Alaska. In 2003, he began collaborating with a cohort of graduate students on the documentation and description of the Chatino language, part of the Otomanguean language group from Oaxaca, Mexico. His research themes encompass tone, prosody, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, ethnopoetics, and verbal art.

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