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Anthony Struthers-Young

PhD candidate at UC San Diego, department of linguistics.

astruthe@ucsd.edu

asy3661@gmail.com

Education

University of California San Diego

PhD candidate, Linguistics. 2020-2025.


University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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


Awards and Fellowships

  • 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.

Publications

  • 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.

Talks and Presentations

  • 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.

Research experience

  • 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.

Teaching experience

  • 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

Research interests

  • Language documentation
  • Phonology, with focus on tone
  • Surrogate languages, i.e. encoding speech of tonal language with an instrument
  • Gur languages and reconstruction of Proto-Gur
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Indo-European Studies

Languages and Skills

  • Northern Toussian, Burkina Faso (nort2787, tsp)
  • Southern Toussian, Burkina Faso (sout2797, wib)
  • Jula, Mande, Burkina Faso (dyul1238, dyu)
  • French
  • Latin
  • Ancient Greek
  • Hittite
  • Middle Egyptian
  • Python
  • Javascript, HTML, and CSS