Gary Holton is an American linguist who works on

Athabaskan languages Athabaskan (also spelled ''Athabascan'', ''Athapaskan'' or ''Athapascan'', and also known as Dene) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific C ...

of Alaska and Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia. He is also interested in the standards of archiving and sharing linguistic data. As of 2019, he is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 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 The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holton, Gary Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Linguists of Papuan languages Linguists of Timor–Alor–Pantar languages Linguists of Na-Dene languages Linguists from the United States University of Hawaiʻi faculty University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty University of California, Santa Barbara alumni