Gary Holton (linguist)
Gary Holton | |
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Holton in 2023 | |
| 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. 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.