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Mark Donohue (linguist)

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Mark Donohue
Born (1967-06-02) 2 June 1967 (age 57)
Portsmouth, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish and Australian
OccupationLinguist
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

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  • 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

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  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.