Mark Donohue (born 2 June 1967 in

Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most dens ...

, United Kingdom) is a British-Australian

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

. He deals with the description of Austronesian, Papuan, and

Sino-Tibetan Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...

languages. He obtained a B.A. in linguistics at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

in Canberra. In 1996, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ''The Tukang Besi language of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia''.Donohue_2017_CV.pdf
From 2009 to 2017, he was an associate professor at the

. In 2017, he was employed by the

Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages The Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages (LTIEL) is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization based in Salem, Oregon, United States. The institute's focus is to scientifically document endangered languages, as well as assist communities with ...

Publications

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Donohue, Mark Living people 1967 births Linguists of Papuan languages Linguists of Lower Mamberamo languages Linguists of Tambora Linguists of Abinomn Linguists of Austronesian languages Linguists of Sino-Tibetan languages Writers from Portsmouth Linguists from the United Kingdom Linguists from Australia Australian National University alumni Australian National University faculty