Interests

Linguistic documentation, description, analysis, and theory; the preservation of endangered languages; and the indigenous languages of the Americas, especially Yupik-Inuit-Aleut and Chatino.

Projects

Chatino language documentation project (with Emiliana Cruz and Hilaria Cruz); Archive of the indigenous languages of Latin America (www.ailla.utexas.org; with Joel Sherzer and Heidi Johnson)

Recent Courses

Lin 306 Introduction to the study of language
Lin 384 The structure of Chatino
Lin 385 Field methods in linguistic investigation
Lin 393 Speech play and verbal art

Recent Publications

To appear. Woodbury, Anthony C. and Nora C. England. 2004. Training speakers of indigenous languages of Latin America at a US University. Proceedings of the 2004 Hans Rausing Endangered Language Program Workshop "Training and Capacity Building for Endangered Languages Communities." Hans Rausing Endangered Language Programme, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. [pdf]

Woodbury, Anthony C. 2004. Morphological orthodoxy in Yupik-Inuit. In Ettlinger, M., N. Fleisher, and M. Park-Doob eds. 2004. Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: BLS.

Woodbury, Anthony C. 2004. Defining documentary linguistics. In Peter Austin, ed., Papers in Language Documentation and Description, Volume 1. Proceedings of the 2003 Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Programme Workshop. London: School of Oriental and African Studies Working papers.

Woodbury, Anthony C. 2002. The word in Cup'ik. In R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Aikhenvald. The status of "word": its phonological, grammatical, cultural, and cognitive basis. Cambridge University Press.

Contact Info

Calhoun 501
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Austin, TX 78712-0198
(512) 471-1701
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