Martina Wiltschko

Martina Wiltschko is Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada. She was born and raised in Austria, where she completed her degrees at the University of Vienna. She moved to Canada in 1996 and has worked on a number of aboriginal languages (including Blackfoot, Halkomelem, and Kutenai). In her recent book published with Cambridge University Press she aims to integrate her typological findings with the assumption that all languages share a core structure in common.

When she is not thinking about linguistics, she enjoys the company of her family (husband Strang Burton, a linguist and blogger, her son Konrad, and her dog Yoshi) or practices martial arts. She received her third degree black belt (rank of Senpai) in April 2014.