Mark Donohue, BA Asian Studies (Hons), PhD (ANU)
Research Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language
Email: mark.donohue@anu.edu.au
Biographical statement
Current projects: the social history of Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia, as revealed through areal linguistic research; ongoing fieldwork on Austronesian and Papuan languages of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (focussing on Tukang Besi, Palu'e, Ambai [Austronesian], Skou, Damal, One [Papuan]).
Research interests
Austronesian languages, Papuan languages, morphosyntax, phonology, historical and areal linguistics, linguistic typology
Key publications
- Perrier, Xavier, Edmond De Langhe, Mark Donohue, Carol Lentfer, Luc Vrydaghs, Frédéric Bakry, Françoise Carreel, Isabelle Hippolyte, Jean-Pierre Horry, Christophe Jenny, Vincent Lebot, Ange-Marie Risterucci, Kodjo Tomekpe, Hugues Doutreleponte, Terry Ball, Jason Manwaring, Pierre de Maret, and Tim Denham. 2011. Multidisciplinary perspectives on banana (Musa spp.) domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
- Soares, Pedro, Teresa Rito, Jean Trejaut, Maru Mormina, Cathering Hill, Emma Tinkler-Hundai, Michelle Braid, Douglas J. Clarke, Jun-Hun Loo, Noel Thomson, Tim Denham, Mark Donohue, Vincent Macaulay, Marie Lin, Stephen Oppenheimer and Martin Richards 2011. Ancient Voyaging and Polynesian Origins. American Journal of Human Genetics 88: 239-247.
- Donohue, Mark, Simon Musgrave, Bronwen Whiting and Søren Wichmann. 2011. Typological feature analysis models linguistic geography. Language 87 (2): 369-383.
- 2009. Geography is more robust than Linguistics. Science E-letter, 13 August 2009. Available online at: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/324/5926/464-c.
- 2009. with Tim Denham and Sara Booth. Horticultural experimentation in northern Australia reconsidered. Antiquity 83: 634-648.
- 2008. Prefixal 'suffixes' in Skou. Australian Journal of Linguistics 28 (2): 139-170.
- 2008. with Søren Wichmann, eds. Semantic alignment: typological and descriptive studies. Oxford University Press.
- 2007. Word order in Austronesian: from north to south and west to east. Linguistic Typology 11 (2): 351-393.
- 2006. Negative grammatical functions in Skou. Language 82 (2): 383-398.
- 2005. Configurationality in the languages of New Guinea. Australian Journal of Linguistics 25 (2): 181-218.
- 2004. Typology and linguistic areas. Oceanic Linguistics 43 (1): 221-239.
- 2004. with Lila San Roque. I'saka: a sketch grammar of a language of north-central New Guinea. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics No. 554.
- 2001. Coding choices in argument structure: Austronesian applicatives in texts. Studies in Language 25 (2): 217-254.
- 1999. A Grammar of Tukang Besi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- 1997. Tone in New Guinea. Linguistic Typology 1 (3): 347-386.
- 1996. Bajau, a symmetrical Austronesian language. Language 72 (4): 782-793.
Career highlights
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney (1998-2002); Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (2002-2006); Professorial Fellow, Monash University (2006-2008); Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, 2009); Lecturer, intensive courses in Papuan Languages (Australian Linguistics Institute, 2002), Transitivity, clause and discourse structure (Summer Institute of Linguistics, Sentani, Indonesia, 1999), Languages of Oceania (Tsukuba University, Japan, 2002), The structure of Tukang Besi (GLOW Summer School, Stuttgart, Germany, 2006), Phonological typology of Papuan languages (Linguistics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 2009); Research Fellow, Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU (January 2009+); Future Fellow, Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific (2011-2015).
