Gary Holton
papers, handouts, presentations, etc...
Updating in progress .... (Jan 12, 2009)
Note: If you have trouble downloading any of these papers, I am happy to send a copy via email. Write to me at gary.holton @ uaf.edu
Tanacross Athabascan
- Nuun Dinahtl'aa: The Tanacross Animal Book (Sept, 2004)
- Shallow tone marking and literacy in Alaska Athabascan languages. Paper presented at the 2003 Athabascan Languages Conference. Arcata, California. [paper]
- Writing Tanacross Without Special Fonts
- What am I doing?
- Introduction to the Tanacross Writing System (2001)
- Tanacross Practial Orthography (2001)
- Fortis and lenis fricatives in Tanacross Athapaskan (2001)
- The Phonology and Morphology of the Tanacross Athabascan Verb (2000 UCSB PhD Dissertation)
Dena'ina Athabascan
- Language and landscape at the intersection of Athabascan and Eskimo. Paper presented at the 2009 meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. San Francisco, Jan 8-11. [presentation | paper]
- Language loss and learners’ language in Dena’ina: Barrier or opportunity? Paper presented at the 2006 Dene Languages Conference. Yellowknife. [paper]
- When to say shit in Dena’ina: Dena’ina evidentials revisited. Paper presented at the 2006 Dene Languages Conference. Yellowknife. [with Olga Lovick] [handout]
- Creolization and language maintenance in Alaska Athabascan languages. Paper presented at the 2006 Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America. Salt Lake City. [handout]
- Evidentiality in Dena'ina Athabascan. Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the America. Oakland, California, January 6-9. [with Olga Müller] [handout]
- Speaking across generations: Dena’ina language revitalization in Southcentral Alaska. Alaska Park Science, Winter 2005. [with Karen Gaul] [paper]
North Halmahera, Indonesia
- The relational noun marker in Tobelo (Northeast Halmaheran). Paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Austronesian Languages. Puerto Princessa, Philippines. (2006) [paper]
- The rise and fall of semantic alignment in North Halmahera, Indonesia. The Typology of Semantic Alignment, ed. by Mark Donohue & Søren Wichmann, 252-76. Oxford University Press. (2005) [paper]
- Tobelo (Languages of the World/Materials 328). LINCOM Europa. (2003)
- Categoriality of property concepts in a switch-adjective language (1999)
- Grammatical Relations in Tobelo. University of California Santa Barbara MA Thesis. 1997. [paper]
Timor-Alor-Pantar Group, Indonesia
- Landscape in Western Pantar: A preliminary study. Workshop on Landscape in Language. Chinle, Arizona. (2008) [presentation | paper]
- Pronouns and pronominal prefixes in Alor-Pantar. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Languages of Papua. Manokwari. (2007). [handout]
- Spatial orientation in Western Pantar (Lamma). Paper presented at ENUS V. Kupang. (2007) [handout]
- What is bahasa Lamma? Logonyms, dialectology, and the future of endangered languages. Paper presented at ENUS V. Kupang. (2007) [paper]
- Masalah bahasa-bahasa yang terancam punah di NTT dan di seluruh dunia. [The problem of endangered languages in East Nusatenggara and the world.] Paper presented at Universitas Nusa Cendana, Kupang. (2006) [presentation] (2006)
- Person-marking, verb classes, and the notion of grammatical alignment in Western Pantar (Lamma) [handout] (2005)
- Recent Fieldwork on Pantar Island, Eastern Indonesia [report] (Aug 30, 2004)
Language Archiving
- Your archive is your friend: Negotiating access conditions for endangered language materials. Paper presented at the 2009 Linguistic Society of America Tutorial on Accessing Collaboration. San Francisco, Jan 11. [presentation]
- Finding the locus of best practice: Technology training in an Alaskan language community. (2006) Sustainable data from digital fieldwork, ed. by Linda Barwick & Nicholas Thieberger, 69-86. Sydney: University of Sydney Press. [with Andrea Berez] [paper]
- Building the Dena'ina Language Archive (2005) Paper presented at the 2005 Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium. Victoria, BC. [presentation]
- Metadata for Linguistic Documentation Archives (2001) [paper]