Gary Holton | |
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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 |
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.[2]