Gary Holton is an American linguist who works on Athabaskan languages of Alaska and Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia.[1] He is also interested in the standards of archiving and sharing linguistic data.[2][3] As of 2019, he is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[3]
Gary Holton | |
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 Holton in 2023 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| Main interests | Papuan languages, Athabaskan languages |
He has bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics. In 2000, he obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2]
Selected publications
edit- Landscape in Western Pantar, a Papuan outlier of southern Indonesia (2011)
- Sketch of Western Pantar (Lamma) (2014)
- A unified system of spatial orientation in the Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages of Halmahera (2017)
- Interdisciplinary language documentation (2018)
References
edit- ^ "Gary Holton". University of Hawaii at Manoa. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
- ^ a b "CV".
- ^ a b "Featured Linguist: Gary Holton". The LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016. Retrieved 2020-01-15.