Gary Holton (linguist)

Gary Holton is an American linguist who works on Athabaskan languages of Alaska and Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia. 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.

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)

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