Mark Donohue, BA Asian Studies (Hons), PhD (ANU)
Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics

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

• Forthcoming (2009). with Tim Denham. Farming and Language in Island Southeast Asia: reframing Austronesian history. Current Anthropology.
• Forthcoming (2009). with Tim Denham and Sara Booth. Horticultural experimentation in northern Australia reconsidered. Antiquity.
• 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+).