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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.


Research interests

  • Language documentation
  • Phonology, with focus on tone
  • Surrogate languages, i.e., the of encoding speech with a musical instrument
  • Languages of Africa, with focus on Gur (Mabia), Senoufo, and Mande
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Reconstruction of Proto-Gur
  • Indo-European Studies

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” ($14,774). 2024-2025.

  • UCSD Katzin Prize ($50,000). 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. 2017, 2018.

  • 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.

Invited talks

  • Struthers-Young, Anthony. 2022. The History of Multiple Exponence and Serial Verbs in the Toussian Languages. HistLing (historical linguistics meeting) oral presentation. University of Michigan.

  • Struthers-Young, Anthony. 2019. Toussian: a survey and a discussion of its vestigial gender system. Gender in Gur languages Workshop. University of Berlin.

  • Struthers-Young. 2018. The development of grammatical tone in Northern Toussian Workshop on Tone and Prosody of West African Languages. Bobo-Dioulasso.

Conference presentations

Fieldwork experience

  • In-situ fieldwork and documentation of Northern Toussian. Data collection for sociolinguistic study. Burkina Faso. 2024 (2 months).

  • In-situ fieldwork and documentation of Northern Toussian. Data collection for phonetic study. Burkina Faso. 2023 (2 months).

  • In-situ fieldwork and documentation of Northern Toussian and its musical surrogate language. Data collection for phonetic study. Burkina Faso. 2022 (2 months).

  • In-situ fieldwork and documentation of Northern Toussian and its musical surrogate language. Burkina Faso. 2019 (2 months).

  • In-situ fieldwork and documentation of Northern and Southern Toussian. Burkina Faso. 2018 (7 months).

Other research experience

  • Translation of Grammatica Linguae Selinae by Gregorio Mengarini for Professor Sally Thomason (Linguistics Department, University of Michigan). 2019–2020.

  • Research assistant for Professor Benjamin Fortson (Classics Department, University of Michigan), 2019–2020.

  • Editing of Jeffrey Heath’s and Brahima Tioté’s A grammar of Pere (Bere, Mbre) of Côte d’Ivoire. May 2019.

  • Research assistant for Professor Jeffrey Heath (Linguistics Department, University of Michigan). 2018.

  • Research on genetics and its implications on linguistics funded through Mcubed. 2018.

Guest Lectures

  • LIGN 141: The Structure of French. West African French. 2024.

  • LIGN 111: Phonology. Rule ordering. 2023.

  • LIGN 108: Languages of Africa. Musical surrogate languages. 2023.

  • LIGN 111: Phonology. Musical surrogate languages. 2021, 20222, 2023.

Teaching experience

  • Teaching assistant for LIGN 110: Phonetics at UCSD. 2020, 2024.

  • Teaching assistant for LIGN 101: Introductory Linguistics at UCSD. 2024.

  • Teaching assistant for LIGN 111: Phonology at UCSD. 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

  • Teaching assistant for LIGN 8: Languages and Cultures of America. 2023.

  • Teaching assistant for LIGN 108: Languages of Africa. 2023.

  • 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.

Language experience

  • 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
  • Montana Salish (Kalispel, kali1307)

Computer skills

  • Python
  • Javascript, HTML, and CSS
  • R
  • ELAN
  • Praat, including Praat scripting

Service

  • Co-head of the Graduate Student Body of the linguistics department, an organization for advocacy and support of graduate students. UCSD. 2023–2024.

  • Dayton Council of World Affairs presentation. Northern Toussian musical surrogate language. 2023

  • Co-organization of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) 53. 2022.

  • Co-organization of the Workshop on Tone and Prosody of West African Languages. 2018.