Publications

Digital Domains for Native American Languages

Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 1: Introduction [more info]

Citation: Holton, Gary. 2022. Digital Domains for Native American Languages. In Igor Krupnik (ed.), Hanbook of North American Indians, Vol. 1: Introduction, 211-229. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. http://gmholton.github.io/files/holton-2022-digital_domains.pdf

Place naming strategies in Inuit-Yupik and Dene languages in Alaska

Memory and Landscape [more info]

Citation: Holton, Gary. 2022. Place naming strategies in Inuit-Yupik and Dene languages in Alaska. In Kenneth L. Pratt & Scott Heyes (eds.), Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North, 276–296. Athabasca: Athabasca University Press. holton-2022-place_naming.pdf

A quantitative approach to sociotopography in Austronesian languages

Linguistics Vanguard [more info]

Citation: Pappas, Leah and Gary Holton. 2022. A quantitative approach to sociotopography in Austronesian languages. Linguistics Vanguard 8(1).11-23. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2020-0044

Indigenous Peoples, Ethics, and Linguistic Data

Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management [more info]

Citation: Holton, Gary, Wesley Y. Leonard, and Peter L. Pulsifer. 2021. People, ethics, and data. Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, ed. by Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren Collister. Cambridbge: MIT Press. http://gmholton.github.io/files/581-92248_ch04_1P.pdf

Spatial orientation in the Malayo-Polynesian languages outside Oceanic

The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar

Citation: Pappas, Leah and Gary Holton. to appear. Spatial orientation in the Malayo-Polynesian languages outside Oceanic. The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, ed. by Sander Adelaar and Antoinette Schapper. Oxford University Press.

Sense of place in North America

The Languages and Linguistics of North America: A Comprehensive Guide

Citation: Holton, Gary and Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker. to appear. Sens of place in North America. The Languages and Linguistics of North America: A Comprehensive Guide, ed. by Carmen Jany, Marianne Mithun, Keren Rice. Mouton de Gruyter.

Language and Toponymy in Alaska and Beyond

University of Hawai‘i Press [more info]

Citation: Holton, Gary and Thomas F. Thornton. 2019. Language and Toponymy in Alaska and Beyond. Fairbanks and Honolulu: Alaska Native Language Center and University of Hawai‘i Press. https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/sp-17/

Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years After Himmelmann 1998

University of Hawai‘i Press [more info]

Citation: McDonnell, Bradley, Andrea Berez-Kroeker, and Gary Holton. 2018. Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years After Himmelmann 1998. (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication no. 15.) Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/sp-15/

A unified system of spatial orientation in the Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages of Halmahera

NUSA [more info]

Citation: Holton, Gary. 2017. A unified system of spatial orientation in the Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages of Halmahera. Language Contact and Substrate in Wallacea, ed. by Antoinette Schapper. NUSA 62.159-91. http://hdl.handle.net/10108/89846

The Papuan Languages of East Nusantara

The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide

Citation: Holton, Gary and Marian Klamer. 2017. The Papuan Languages of East Nusantara. The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide, ed. by Bill Palmer, 569-640. (The World of Linguistics, vol. 4.) Berlin: Mouton.

East is not a ‘big bird’: The etymology of the star Altair in the Carolinian sidereal compass.

Oceanic Linguistics [more info]

Citation: Holton, Gary, Calistus Hachibmai, Ali Haleyalur, Jerry Lipka, and Donald Rubinstein. 2015. East is not a ‘big bird’: The etymology of the star Altair in the Carolinian sidereal compass. Oceanic Linguistics 54(2).579-588 http://doi.org/10.1353/ol.2015.0021

Linguistic phylogenies support back-migration from Beringia to Asia

PLoS ONE [more info]

Citation: Sicoli, Mark and Gary Holton. 2014. Linguistic phylogenies support back-migration from Beringia to Asia. PLoS ONE 9(3): e91722. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091722]