Dennis Holt
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Dennis Graham Holt (born October 6, 1942, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) is an American poet and linguist.
He attended the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA. His research has primarily been directed toward the description of endangered languages of Latin America, including Pech, Tol, and Sumu of Honduras, and Tepecano and Sayula Popoluca of Mexico. For 10 years, he served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Endangered Language Fund, from its founding, in 1996, until 2006.
His publications include:
Windings: Poems, 1962-1972. Privately published, 1973.
The Development of the Paya Sound-System. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986.
Tol (Jicaque). Munich: LincomEuropa, 1999.
Pech (Paya). Munich: LincomEuropa, 1999.
