G Holton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 100102 |
|---|---|
| NOME | G Holton |
| PRENOMES | G |
| SOBRENOME | Holton |
| ASSINATURA | HOLTON G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9346-1572 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A quantitative approach to sociotopography in Austronesian languages
Absolute spatial orientation systems are pervasive and diverse among Austronesian languages, and decades of research has suggested that such systems are motivated at least in part by environmental and cultural factors. In this paper, we take a quantitative approach to the study of orientation systems by presenting the results of an exploratory multifactorial analysis of spatial orientation systems across 131 Austronesian languages, representing n…
Reproducible research in linguistics
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification and accountability in linguistic research, and is a hallmark of social science research that is currently under-represented in our field. We believe that we need to take time as a discipline to clearly articula…
A Newly Documented Whole-Sky Circumpolar Constellation in Alaskan Gwich'in
A Newly Documented Whole-Sky Circumpolar Constellation in Alaskan Gwich 'in. Abstract. Traditional approaches to the documentation of indigenous astronomical knowledge often assume a one-to-one or near one-to-one correspondence between indigenous and classical constellation terms. Only a single constellation, equated with the Big Dipper, is robustly attested across the Northern Dene languages. Here we provide evidence from Gwich'in (Dene) that sh…
Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages
We examine the varying role of conditions on grammatical relations marking (namely animacy and volitionality) by looking at different languages of one family, using both existing descriptions and working with specially prepared video stimuli. This enables us to see the degree of variation permitted within closely related languages. We look at four Alor-Pantar languages (Teiwa, Adang, Kamang, and Abui), Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia. The c…
Internal Classification of the Alor-Pantar Language Family Using Computational Methods Applied to the Lexicon
The non-Austronesian languages of Alor and Pantar in eastern Indonesia have been shown to be genetically related using the comparative method, but the identified phonological innovations are typologically common and do not delineate neat subgroups. We apply computational methods to recently collected lexical data and are able to identify subgroups based on the lexicon. Crucially, the lexical data are coded for cognacy based on identified phonolog…
Methodology in Linguistic Prehistory
Intervocalic consonant epenthesis is used as a case study for investigating grammar change. An emergentist framework is adopted, whereby a simple learning mechanism transforms a phonetically-based sound change into a synchronic phonological process. A two-part model of such 'grammaticalizing' change is developed, along with a formal analysis of the necessary model properties. This work demonstrates that perception-based consonant loss could, in p…
Fortis and Lenis Fricatives in Tanacross Athapaskan
Studies in Sulawesi linguistics
L'imagination scientifique
L’A., qui centre sa recherche sur la physique, veut “proposer des concepts et des methodes susceptibles d’enrichir notre apprehension de l’imagination mise en acte par les hommes de science lorsqu’ils font œuvre scientifique” (p. 7). – Il caracterise sa demarche par quatre aspects : “une investigation circonstanciee du moment de la genese de l’œuvre du savant considere”; un interet porte a “tout produit de l’activite scientifique” publie ou non; …
Reproducible research in linguistics
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification and accountability in linguistic research, and is a hallmark of social science research that is currently under-represented in our field. We believe that we need to take time as a discipline to clearly articula…
Fortis and Lenis Fricatives in Tanacross Athapaskan
A Newly Documented Whole-Sky Circumpolar Constellation in Alaskan Gwich'in
A Newly Documented Whole-Sky Circumpolar Constellation in Alaskan Gwich 'in. Abstract. Traditional approaches to the documentation of indigenous astronomical knowledge often assume a one-to-one or near one-to-one correspondence between indigenous and classical constellation terms. Only a single constellation, equated with the Big Dipper, is robustly attested across the Northern Dene languages. Here we provide evidence from Gwich'in (Dene) that sh…
Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages
We examine the varying role of conditions on grammatical relations marking (namely animacy and volitionality) by looking at different languages of one family, using both existing descriptions and working with specially prepared video stimuli. This enables us to see the degree of variation permitted within closely related languages. We look at four Alor-Pantar languages (Teiwa, Adang, Kamang, and Abui), Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia. The c…
Studies in Sulawesi linguistics
Fortis and Lenis Fricatives in Tanacross Athapaskan
Internal Classification of the Alor-Pantar Language Family Using Computational Methods Applied to the Lexicon
The non-Austronesian languages of Alor and Pantar in eastern Indonesia have been shown to be genetically related using the comparative method, but the identified phonological innovations are typologically common and do not delineate neat subgroups. We apply computational methods to recently collected lexical data and are able to identify subgroups based on the lexicon. Crucially, the lexical data are coded for cognacy based on identified phonolog…
Methodology in Linguistic Prehistory
Intervocalic consonant epenthesis is used as a case study for investigating grammar change. An emergentist framework is adopted, whereby a simple learning mechanism transforms a phonetically-based sound change into a synchronic phonological process. A two-part model of such 'grammaticalizing' change is developed, along with a formal analysis of the necessary model properties. This work demonstrates that perception-based consonant loss could, in p…
Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages
We examine the varying role of conditions on grammatical relations marking (namely animacy and volitionality) by looking at different languages of one family, using both existing descriptions and working with specially prepared video stimuli. This enables us to see the degree of variation permitted within closely related languages. We look at four Alor-Pantar languages (Teiwa, Adang, Kamang, and Abui), Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia. The c…
A Newly Documented Whole-Sky Circumpolar Constellation in Alaskan Gwich'in
A Newly Documented Whole-Sky Circumpolar Constellation in Alaskan Gwich 'in. Abstract. Traditional approaches to the documentation of indigenous astronomical knowledge often assume a one-to-one or near one-to-one correspondence between indigenous and classical constellation terms. Only a single constellation, equated with the Big Dipper, is robustly attested across the Northern Dene languages. Here we provide evidence from Gwich'in (Dene) that sh…
Reproducible research in linguistics
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification and accountability in linguistic research, and is a hallmark of social science research that is currently under-represented in our field. We believe that we need to take time as a discipline to clearly articula…
A quantitative approach to sociotopography in Austronesian languages
Absolute spatial orientation systems are pervasive and diverse among Austronesian languages, and decades of research has suggested that such systems are motivated at least in part by environmental and cultural factors. In this paper, we take a quantitative approach to the study of orientation systems by presenting the results of an exploratory multifactorial analysis of spatial orientation systems across 131 Austronesian languages, representing n…
L'imagination scientifique
L’A., qui centre sa recherche sur la physique, veut “proposer des concepts et des methodes susceptibles d’enrichir notre apprehension de l’imagination mise en acte par les hommes de science lorsqu’ils font œuvre scientifique” (p. 7). – Il caracterise sa demarche par quatre aspects : “une investigation circonstanciee du moment de la genese de l’œuvre du savant considere”; un interet porte a “tout produit de l’activite scientifique” publie ou non; …
Linguistics (7 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Archaeology (3 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Language and cultural evolution (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 obras) · Applied linguistics (2 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (2 obras)