Anthony Struthers-Young

PhD candidate at UC San Diego, department of linguistics.

Education

University of California San Diego

PhD candidate, Linguistics. 2020-2025.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

B.A., Linguistics; Classical Languages and Literature. 2019.

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (Ling-DDRIG). “Doctoral Dissertation Research: A grammar of a minority language and documentation of linguistic and cultural data.” 2024-2025.
Katzin Prize. UCSD. 2020-2025.
Graduated from the University of Michigan with High Distinction. 2019.
Classical Linguistics Prize, University of Michigan. 2019.
Phillips Prize for Greek Translation, University of Michigan. 2018, 2017.
Two term Angell Scholar, University of Michigan. 2018.
University of Michigan Alumni Club, Dayton, Alumni Scholarship. 2015.

Huang, Yaqian, Nina Hagen Khaldhol, Jun Jie Lim, Sharon Rose, and Anthony Struthers-Young. 2024. ACAL in SoCal: Selected papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African linguistics. Berlin, Language Science Press.
Struthers-Young, Anthony. 2023. Comparative Toussian nominal morphology. In Tom Güldemann and Ines Fiedler (eds.), Gur Languages and Nominal Classification Diversity. Köln, Rödiger Köppe Verlag.
Struthers-Young, Anthony. 2022. A Preliminary Account of the Northern Toussian Balafon Surrogate Language. Frontiers in Communication.

WOCAL (World Congress on African Linguistics) 11 oral presentation. Verbal grammatical tone in Northern Toussian. 2024.
Tajudeen, Mamadou and Anthony Struthers-Young. 2024. Pharyngealization in the Toussian languages. Paper presented at WOCAL (World Congress on African Linguistics) 11.
ACAL (Annual Conference on African Linguistics) oral presentation. Apparent double downstep in Northern Toussian. McGill University. 2024.
Dayton Council of World Affairs presentation. Northern Toussian musical surrogate language. 2023.
HistLing (historical linguistics meeting) presentation. The History of Multiple Exponence and Serial Verbs in the Toussian Languages. University of Michigan. 2022.
MultEx@ZAS presentation. Multiple Exponence in Northern Toussian. ZAS Berlin. 2021.
WOCAL (World Congress of African Linguistics) presentation. Same Subject Reference in Northern Toussian. Leiden University. 2021.
Gender in Gur languages Workshop, presentation. Toussian: a survey and a discussion of its vestigial gender system. University of Berlin. 2019.
ACAL (Annual Conference on African Linguistics) oral presentation. Development of grammatical tone in Northern Toussian. University of British Columbia. 2019
Conference talk on development of grammatical tone in Northern Toussian at the Workshop on Tone and Prosody of West African Languages. Bobo-Dioulasso. 2018.

In-situ Linguistic documentation of the Northern Toussian language of Burkina Faso. 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023.
Translation of Grammatica Linguae Selinae by Gregorio Mengarini for Professor Sally Thomason (Linguistics Department, University of Michigan). Begun October 2019.
Research assistant for Professor Benjamin Fortson (Classics Department, University of Michigan), begun October 2019.
Editing of Jeffrey Heath’s and Brahima Tioté’s A grammar of Pere (Bere, Mbre) of Côte d’Ivoire. May 2019.
Organization of the Workshop on Tone and Prosody of West African Languages. 2018.
Research assistant for Professor Jeffrey Heath (Linguistics Department, University of Michigan). January 3–December 11, 2018.
Research on genetics and its implications on linguistics funded through Mcubed. January 3–April 30, 2018.

Guest lecture on West African French for LIGN 141: The Structure of French. 2024.
Teaching assistant for LIGN 101: Introductory Linguistics at UCSD. 2024.
Teaching assistant for LIGN 111: Phonology at UCSD. 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
Guest lecture on rule ordering for LIGN 111: Phonology. 2023
Teaching assistant for LIGN 8: Languages of America. 2023.
Teaching assistant for LIGN 108: Languages of Africa. 2023.
Guest lecture on musical surrogate languages for LIGN 108: Languages of Africa. 2023.
Guest lecture on musical surrogate languages for LIGN 111: Phonology. 2023, 2022, 2021.
Teaching assistant for LIGN 139: Field Methods at UCSD. 2022.
Teaching assistant for LIGN 150: Historical Linguistics at UCSD. 2022.
Teaching assistant for LIGN 120: Morphology at UCSD. 2021.
Teaching assistant for LIGN 110: Phonetics at UCSD. 2020