Gary Holton (linguist)
Gary Holton | |
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Holton in 2023 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| 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. 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.