Anthony C Woodbury
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone: +1 512 471 1701
Email: woodbury@austin.utexas.edu
Anthony Woodbury's research focuses on the indigenous languages of the Americas, and what they reveal about the variances in human linguistics. Since 2003, he has been engaged, together with current and former students, in the documentation and description of Chatino, an Otomanguean language group of Oaxaca, Mexico, supported by grants from the Endangered Language Documentation Programme and the National Science Foundation. Earlier, he worked on Yupik-Inuit-Aleut languages of Alaska, especially Cupik. Themes in his writing have included tone and prosody, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, ethnopoetics, language endangerment and preservation, and documentary linguistics. He is also co-director of the digital Archive for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (www.ailla.utexas.org) at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, which is supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.