Gary Holton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gary Holton is involved.
Articles
2011 Differing conceptualizations of the same landscape: The Athabaskan and Eskimo language boundary in Alaska Landscape in Language: Transdisciplinary perspectives, Mark, David M., Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea (eds.), pp. 225–237 | Article
This paper further explores the non-universality of landscape terms by focusing on one particular landscape, the Yukon Intermontane Plateau of western Alaska. This region serves as the boundary between two great language families of North America, Athabaskan and Eskimo, and thus offers a unique… read more
2011 Landscape in Western Pantar, a Papuan outlier of southern Indonesia Landscape in Language: Transdisciplinary perspectives, Mark, David M., Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea (eds.), pp. 143–166 | Article
This chapter describes the landscape, streamscape, and seascape terminology of Western Pantar, a non-Austronesian (“Papuan”) language spoken in the Alor archipelago of eastern Indonesia. In Western Pantar reference to elevations is achieved through named places of habitation rather than through… read more
2005 Pitch, Tone and Intonation in Tanacross Athabaskan Prosody, Hargus, Sharon and Keren Rice (eds.), pp. 249–275 | Article