Mark Donohue (linguist)
Mark Donohue | |
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| Born | 2 June 1967 Portsmouth, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British and Australian |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Australian National University |
| Thesis | The Tukang Besi language of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia (1996) |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Austronesian and Papuan linguistics |
Mark Donohue (born 2 June 1967 in Portsmouth, United Kingdom) is a British-Australian linguist. He deals with the description of Austronesian, Papuan, and Sino-Tibetan languages.
He obtained a B.A. in linguistics at the Australian National University in Canberra. In 1996, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled The Tukang Besi language of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. 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.