Gary Holton (linguist)
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 | |
|---|---|
 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.
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
- "Gary Holton". University of Hawaii at Manoa. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
- "CV".
- "Featured Linguist: Gary Holton". The LINGUIST List. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.