Anthony C. Woodbury
Professor — Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Jesse H. Jones Regents Professorship in Liberal Arts

Contact
- E-mail: woodbury@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-1701
- Office: RLP 4.738
- Campus Mail Code: B5100
Biography
Anthony C. Woodbury is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Jesse H. Jones Regents Professorship in Liberal Arts. He earned his B.A. in Linguistics in 1975 from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981. He has taught in the UT Linguistics Department since 1980, and served as its chair, 1998-2006 and again 2014-2015. He was elected President of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas for the year 2005 and Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2017. He received the UT Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award for 2008 and the UT College of Liberal Arts Harry Ransom Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016.
Anthony Woodbury's research focuses on the indigenous languages of the Americas, and what they reveal about human linguistic diversity. 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 Cup’ik. 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 has been supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation.
Courses
LIN 389D • Rsch Docum/Descript Ling-Wb
40485 • Spring 2021
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM
Internet; Synchronous
UGS 303 • Dying Languages: Ling/Div-Wb
61875-61900 • Spring 2021
Meets MW 10:00AM-11:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
CDGC
ID
LIN 306 • Intro To Study Of Language-Wb
39050 • Fall 2020
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
SB
LIN 385 • Field Meths In Lin Investigatn
39200 • Fall 2020
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM RLP 4.104
Hybrid/Blended
UGS 303 • Dying Languages: Ling/Divrsity
59825-59850 • Spring 2020
Meets MW 10:00AM-11:00AM UTC 3.122
CDGC
ID
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
39235 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM CPE 2.206
SB
LIN 385 • Field Meths In Lin Investigatn
39395 • Fall 2019
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM RLP 4.716
LIN 389D • Rsch Docum/Descript Ling
40175 • Spring 2019
Meets W 1:00PM-4:00PM RLP 4.716
UGS 303 • Dying Languages: Ling/Divrsity
61605-61630 • Spring 2019
Meets MW 11:00AM-12:00PM UTC 3.134
CDGC
ID
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
40225 • Fall 2018
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM UTC 4.110
SB
LIN 385 • Field Meths In Lin Investigatn
40335 • Fall 2018
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM RLP 4.716
LIN 393 • Morphological Typology
40625 • Spring 2018
Meets W 12:00PM-3:00PM CLA 4.716
UGS 303 • Dying Languages: Ling/Divrsity
62245-62270 • Spring 2018
Meets MW 11:00AM-12:00PM UTC 3.112
CDGC
ID
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
40815 • Fall 2017
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM CLA 0.128
SB
LIN 385 • Field Meths In Lin Investigatn
40925 • Fall 2017
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM CLA 4.716
LIN 389D • Rsch Docum/Descript Ling
41050 • Spring 2017
Meets W 1:00PM-4:00PM CLA 4.716
UGS 303 • Dying Languages: Ling/Divrsity
62880-62905 • Spring 2017
Meets MW 11:00AM-12:00PM CLA 0.112
CDGC
ID
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
40760 • Fall 2016
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM GAR 0.102
SB
LIN 385 • Field Meths In Lin Investigatn
40875 • Fall 2016
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM CLA 4.716
ANT 393 • Speech Play And Verbal Art
30694 • Fall 2015
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM SAC 5.118
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
39955 • Fall 2015
Meets MWF 12:00PM-1:00PM GSB 2.124
SB
LIN 385 • Field Meths In Lin Investigatn
41185 • Fall 2014
Meets W 12:00PM-3:00PM CLA 4.716
UGS 302 • Dying Langs And Ling Diversity
64790 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM CLA 0.120
GCWr
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
41275 • Fall 2013
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GEA 105
SB
LIN 393 • Complexity In Language
41045 • Spring 2013
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM CLA 4.716
UGS 302 • Dying Langs And Ling Diversity
64000 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ 2.210
Wr
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
40735 • Fall 2012
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GEA 105
SB
LIN 384 • Advanced Structure Of Chatino
40850 • Fall 2012
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM MEZ 2.210
LIN 385 • Field Meths In Lin Investigatn
40880 • Spring 2012
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM MEZ 2.210
UGS 302 • Dying Langs And Ling Diversity
63395 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM BEN 1.126
Wr
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
40670 • Fall 2011
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GEA 105
SB
LIN 393 • Poetics/Mus/Verb Art: Lang Doc
40810 • Fall 2011
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM BEN 1.106
LIN 345 • Lang Change And Lang Variation
41105 • Spring 2011
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM CBA 4.328
UGS 302 • Dying Langs And Ling Diversity
63440 • Spring 2011
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM MEZ 1.118
Wr
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
40650 • Fall 2010
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GRG 102
SB
LIN 385 • Field Meths In Lin Investigatn
40800 • Fall 2010
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM MEZ 2.210
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
41405 • Fall 2009
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 101
SB
LIN 384 • Advanced Structure Of Chatino
41585 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MEZ 2.210
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
41625 • Fall 2008
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 101
SB
LIN 385 • Field Methods In Lin Investig
41710 • Spring 2008
Meets MW 1:30PM-3:00PM CBA 4.340
LIN 391 • Studies In English Grammar
41725 • Spring 2008
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM PAR 1
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
42160 • Fall 2007
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 101
SB
LIN 385 • Field Methods In Lin Investig
41110 • Spring 2007
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM CBA 4.344
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
41845 • Fall 2006
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 101
SB
LIN 393 • Speech Play And Verbal Art
42070 • Fall 2006
Meets W 1:00PM-4:00PM EPS 1.128
LIN 398T • Supv Teaching In Linguistics
42125 • Fall 2006
Meets M 6:00PM-9:00PM CAL 419
LIN 385 • Field Methods In Lin Investig
40325 • Spring 2006
Meets WF 1:30PM-3:00PM PAR 103
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
39920 • Fall 2005
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 101
SB
LIN 398T • Supv Teaching In Linguistics
40202 • Fall 2005
Meets TH 5:00PM-8:00PM CAL 21
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
39630 • Fall 2004
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 101
SB
LIN 357 • Undergraduate Research
37160 • Spring 2004
LIN 385 • Field Methods In Lin Investig
37245 • Spring 2004
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM WMB 4.118
LIN 698B • Thesis
37330 • Spring 2004
LIN 399W • Dissertation
37355 • Spring 2004
(also listed as LIN 699W)
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
37890 • Fall 2003
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 101
SB
LIN 698A • Thesis
38170 • Fall 2003
LIN 398T • Supv Teaching In Linguistics
38185 • Fall 2003
Meets TH 5:00PM-8:00PM CAL 21
LIN 399W • Dissertation
38205 • Fall 2003
LIN 393 • Linguistic Poetics
37290 • Spring 2003
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM CAL 501A
LIN 399W • Dissertation
37375 • Spring 2003
(also listed as LIN 999W)
LIN 392 • Tools For Ling Description
37755 • Fall 2002
Meets MW 1:30PM-3:00PM CAL 21
LIN 385 • Field Methods In Lin Investig
37035 • Spring 2002
Meets MW 12:00PM-1:30PM PAR 303
LIN 399W • Dissertation
37140 • Spring 2002
(also listed as LIN 699W, LIN 999W)
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
37895 • Fall 2001
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM UTC 3.110
SB
LIN 398T • Supv Teaching In Linguistics
38150 • Fall 2001
Meets T 5:00PM-8:00PM CAL 21
LIN 999W • Dissertation
38180 • Fall 2001
LIN 392 • Tools For Ling Description
36960 • Spring 2001
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CBA 4.326
LIN 306 • Intro To The Study Of Language
37490 • Fall 2000
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM UTC 4.124
SB
LIN 385 • Field Methods In Lin Investig
36520 • Spring 2000
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM PAR 103
Publications
Woodbury, Anthony C. Submitted. Verb inflection in the Chatino languages: The separate life cycles of prefixal vs. tonal conjugational classes. In Matthew Baerman, Timothy Feist & Enrique Palancar (eds.), Inflectional complexity and verb classes: A view from the Otomanguean languages of Mexico. Berlin: Language Sciences Press.
Woodbury, Anthony C. In press. Central Alaskan Yupik (Eskimo-Aleut): A sketch of morphologically orthodox polysynthesis. In Nicholas Evans, Michael Fortescue, & Marianne Mithun (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Epps, Patience, Anthony K. Webster, & Anthony C. Woodbury. 2017. A Humanities of Speaking: Franz Boas and the continuing centrality of texts. International Journal of American Linguistics 83(1).
Woodbury, Anthony C. 2015 Overview: La documentación lingüística. In Bernard Comrie & Lucía Golluscio (eds.), Language contact and documentation / Contacto lingüístico y documentación. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Pp. 9-47. [Spanish translation of Woodbury 2011, Language documentation
Cruz, Emiliana & Anthony C. Woodbury. 2014. Collaboration in the context of teaching, scholarship, and language revitalization: Experience from the Chatino Language Documentation Project. Language Documentation & Conservation 8: 262-286. Special issue: Keren Rice & Bruna Franchetto, (guest eds.), Community Collaboration in the Americas. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24607
Cruz, Emiliana, & Anthony C. Woodbury. 2014. Finding a way into a family of tone languages: The story and methods of the Chatino Language Documentation Project. Language documentation and conservation 8:490-524. Special Issue: Steven Bird & Larry Hyman (guest eds.), How to study a tone language. http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/24615
Woodbury, Anthony C. 2014. Archives and audiences: toward making endangered language documentations people can read, use, understand, and admire. Language documentation and description 12:19-36. Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving. http://www.elpublishing.org/itempage/135
Sullivant, John Ryan & Anthony C. Woodbury. 2012. El tono y el sandhi del tono en el chatino de Tataltepec de Valdés. In Las memorias del Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica-IV. Austin: Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University of Texas at Austin. http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/cilla4_toc.html
Woodbury, Anthony C. 2011. Language documentation. In Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 159-186. peer-rev
Woodbury, Anthony C. 2011. Atkan Aleut "unclitic" pronouns and defniteness: A multimodular analysis. In Etsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi, and Katharine Beals (eds.), Pragmatics and autolexical grammar: in honor of Jerry Sadock. (Series: Linguistics Today 176) Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 125-142.
Woodbury, Anthony C., Eric P. Campbell, Emiliana Cruz, Hilaria Cruz, Justin McIntosh, Jeffrey Rasch, John Ryan Sullivant, & Stéphanie Villard. 2013. Documentation of Chatino. Language Archive. London: Endangered Languages Archive, University of London. 329 resource bundles. http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0090 [Also available as: Chatino Language Documentation Project Collection. The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: www.ailla.utexas.org. Media: audio, video, text, image.]
Sherzer, Joel, Patience Epps, & Anthony C. Woodbury (directors) & Susan S. Kung (manager). 2000-present. The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Austin: Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. www.ailla.utexas.org.
Ph.D. Supervision
Ph.D. Supervision
Ph.D. in progress
Camacho Ríos, Gladys. [Morphology of Bolivian Quechua.]
Gutiérrez Lorenzo, Ambrocio. A description and analysis of the syntax and functions of (bi-clausal) subordinated constructions in Teotitlan del Valle Zapotec (TdVZ).
Ph.D.'s completed
Barrett, E. Rush. Associate Professor, Linguistics Program, University of Kentucky. Fellow, Linguistic Society of America. A grammar of Sipakapense Maya. 1999.
Bermúdez, Natalia. Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago. Naso verbal art. 2018.
Campbell, Eric. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara. Aspects of the phonology and morphology of Zenzontepec Chatino, a Zapotecan language of Oaxaca, Mexico. 2014.
Carleton, Troi. Associate Dean of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts and Professor of Linguistics, Dept. of English, San Francisco State. Phonetics, phonology, and rhetorical structuring of Chichewa. 1996.
Chelliah, Shobhana. Professor, Program in Linguistics, Department of English, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. A study of Manipuri Grammar. 1992.
Chen, Chun-Mei. Associate Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chung Hsing University, Taipei. A comparative study on Formosan phonology: Paiwan and Budai Rukai. 2006.
Churchyard, Henry. The relationship between metrical structure and syllabic/moraic structure. 1999.
Coelho, Gail. Associate Professor, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. A Description of Betta Kurumba. 2003.
Cruz, Emiliana. Profesora Investigadora en Antropología, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico City. Phonology, tone, and the functions of tone in San Juan Quiahije Chatino. 2011.
Cruz, Hilaria. Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Humanities, University of Louisville. Linguistic poetics and rhetoric of Eastern Chatino of San Juan Quiahije. 2014.
de Reuse, Willem. Adjunct Professor, Dept. of English, University of North Texas, Denton. Studies in Siberian Yupik Eskimo morphology and syntax. 1988.
Doak, Ivy Grace. Coeur d’Alene grammatical relations. 1997. Adjunct Professor, University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
Doran, Amanda. (Co-chair with Keith Walters) Intonation and ethnic stereotyping in Mexican-American English. 2000.
Johnson, Heidi. Director, 2002-2013, Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University of Texas at Austin. A Grammar of San Miguel Chimalapa Zoque 2000.
Kim, Sung-A. ?Assistant Professor, Department of English, Seowon University, South Korea. Issues in phonetically grounded phonology: Evidence from suprasegmentals. 1999.
Lefkowitz, Daniel. Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Virginia. (Co-chair with Joel Sherzer.) Language and the negotiation of social identity in an Israeli city. 1995.
Lidz, Liberty. Researcher, Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus, University of California, Berkeley. A descriptive grammar of Yongning Na (Mosuo). 2010.
MacKay, Carolyn. Professor of Linguistics, Dept. of English, Ball State University. (Co-chair with Juliette Blevins) A grammar of Misantla Totonac. 1991.
McIntosh, Justin. Aspects of Phonology and Morphology of Teotepec Eastern Chatino. 2015.
McLaughlin, Fiona. Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Florida, Gainesville. Noun classification in Seereer-Siin. 1992.
McLemore, Cynthia; The pragmatic interpretation of English intonation: sorority speech. 1991.
Michael, Lev. Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. (Co-chair with Joel Sherzer). Nanti evidential practice: Language, knowledge, and social action in an Amazonian society. 2008.
Munshi, Sadaf. Associate Professor, Program in Linguistics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Burushaski in contact. 2006.
Queen, Robin, Chair of the Department of Linguistics, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Linguistics, English Languages and Literatures, and Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Fellow, Linguistic Society of America. (Co-Chair with Keith Walters.) Prosody in the German and Turkish conversational speech of immigrant's children in Marburg, Germany. 1996.
Seifert, Nicole. Style, ideology, and youth cultural practice in the context of language shift (Study of a community in the Blackfeet Nation, Montana). 2013.
Shetty, Malavika; Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Literature, Communication, and culture, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. (Co-chair with Elizabeth Keating) Television and the construction of Tulu identity in South India. 2008.
Sullivant, John Ryan; Language Data Curator, Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University of Texas at Austin. The Phonology and Inflectional Morphology of Cháʔknyá, Tataltepec de Valdés Chatino, a Zapotecan Language. 2015.
Swift, Mary. Research scientist, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester. (Co-chair with Manfred Krifka) The development of temporal reference in Inuktitut child language. 2000.
Thomason, Lucy. Museum Technician (Linguistics), Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Obviation in Fox. 2003.
Uhrbach, Amy, Manager, Context Development Group, Kurzweil AI, a division of Lernout and Hauspie, 411 Waverley Oaks Road, Waltham, MA 02152. (Co-chair with John J. McCarthy) A formal analysis of reduplication, and its interaction with phonological and morphological processes. 1987.
Valentine, Randolph, Professor, Depts. of Linguistics and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Ojibwe Dialect Relations. 1994.
Villard, Stéphanie. The Phonology and Morphology of Zacatepec Eastern Chatino. 2015.
Weeda, Donald. (Co-chair with Armin Mester). Word truncation in prosodic morphology. 1992.
Willis, Christina. Assistant Professor, Rice University, Houston, Texas. A descriptive grammar of Darma, 2007.
Ph.D. students who received the Mary Haas Outstanding Dissertation Award of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (one award and one honorable mention given per year)
DeReuse (Award, 1990), McKay (Award, 1992), Valentine (Award, 1994), Doak (Award, 1997), Johnson (Honorable mention, 2001).
M.A. Supervision
al Bulushi, Hammal Saleh. 2019
Barrett, Edward Rush. 1993
Bingham, Karina. 1998
Blair, Susan. 1990
Campbell, Eric. 2009
Churchyard, Henry. 1991
Cruz, Emiliana. 2004
Cruz, Hilaria. 2009
Dalrymple, Mary. 1984
Files, John. 1992
Hammick, Adam. 2008.
Heilman, Amy. 1994
Kaufmann, John. 1992
McIntosh, Justin. 2012.
McLemore, Cynthia. 1987
Merchant-Goss, Nisha, 1998
Miller, Theresa. 1993
Polinder, Douglas. 1990
Rohrbach, Eugene. 1993
Smythe-Long, Susan. 1998
Strouthes, Peter. 1994
Sullivant, Ryan. 2011
Swift, Mary. 1995
Van Dyke, Alan. 1989
Villard, Stéphanie. 2009.
Wallace, Valerie. 1990.
Undergraduate Supervision
Foreman, John, Senior Thesis supervision, 1996. Recipient of one of Plan II’s “Model Theses” awards for the 1995-6 year.
John, Vijay. Senior Honors Thesis supervision. 2009. Recipient of Rapoport-King scholarship.