Mark Donohue | |
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Born | Portsmouth, United Kingdom | 2 June 1967
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. [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]
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