Mark Donohue (linguist)

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Mark Donohue
Born (1967-06-02) 2 June 1967 (age 56)
Linguist
Academic background
Alma materAustralian National University
ThesisThe Tukang Besi language of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia (1996)
Academic work
Main interestsAustronesian and Papuan linguistics

Mark Donohue (born 2 June 1967 in Portsmouth, United Kingdom) is a British-Australian linguist.[1] He deals with the description of Austronesian, Papuan, and Sino-Tibetan languages.[2][3]

He obtained a B.A. in linguistics at the Australian National University in Canberra.[4] In 1996, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled The Tukang Besi language of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.[1] From 2009 to 2017, he was an associate professor at the Australian National University. In 2017, he was employed by the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages.[4]

Publications

  • Bajau: A symmetrical Austronesian language (1996)[5]
  • Tone systems in New Guinea (1997)
  • Typology and linguistic areas (2004)
  • The Papuan language of Tambora (2007)
  • A grammar of Tukang Besi (2011)

References

  1. ^ a b Donohue_2017_CV.pdf.
  2. ^ "Welcome to Living Tongues, Mark Donohue!". Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. 27 July 2017. Archived from the original on 1 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Mark Donohue | 2017 Linguistic Institute". lsa2017.uky.edu. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  4. ^ a b "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Mark Donohue - Google Scholar Citations". Retrieved 25 January 2020.