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Christopher Butler took a degree in biochemistry at Oxford University and taught biochemistry for several years, but then moved into linguistics, which he taught first at the University of Nottingham, then at what was what is now York St John University, where he held a Professorship in Linguistics. He took early retirement in 1998 to devote more time to research and writing. He holds an Honorary Professorship at Swansea University and is Visiting Professor at the University of Huddersfield. He has Honorary Doctorates from Ghent University and the Universidad de La Rioja. He has published several books and more than 80 articles, mostly on functional linguistics, computational and statistical techniques of language study, and corpus-based description of English and Spanish. His most significant book-length publications are Structure and Function: A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories (2 vols., Benjamins, 2003) and Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space (co-authored with Francisco Gonzálvez-García, Benjamins, 2014).