William Bright - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics UCLA, Professor Adjunct of
Linguistics, University of Colorado
William Bright was born in southern California in 1928. In 1955 he received his
doctorate in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, where his
dissertation was a grammar of the Karuk language. From 1959 to 1988 he taught
linguistics and anthropology at UCLA; now he is Professor Adjoint in Linguistics,
University of Colorado, Boulder. He has done field work in native California,
Mexico, Guatemala, and India. He was Editor of Language, the journal of the
Linguistic Society of America, from 1966 to 1988; in 1992 he was Editor of the
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Oxford University Press, 4 vols.);
and he was editor of the journal Language in Society from 1993 to 1999. He was
co-editor of the reference volume The World’s Writing Systems (Oxford, 1996).
He is currently editor of the journal Written Language & Literacy. His principal
interests are ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, toponymy, and written language.
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