Gary Holton (linguist)

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Gary Holton
Holton in 2023
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Main interestsPapuan languages, Athabaskan languages

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]

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.

Selected publications

  • 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

  1. ^ "Gary Holton". University of Hawaii at Manoa. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  2. ^ "CV".
  3. ^ a b "Featured Linguist: Gary Holton". The LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
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