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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mark Donohue 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.
Mark Donohue 's Published Works
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- Multidisciplinary perspectives on banana (Musa spp.) domestication (2011) (381)
- Ancient voyaging and Polynesian origins. (2011) (184)
- Farming and Language in Island Southeast Asia (2010) (181)
- A grammar of Tukang Besi (1999) (179)
- The Typology of Semantic Alignment (2008) (88)
- Pre-Austronesian dispersal of banana cultivars West from New Guinea: linguistic relics from Eastern Indonesia (2009) (67)
- Yet More on the Position of the Languages of Eastern Indonesia and East Timor (2008) (64)
- Semantic alignment systems: what's what, and what's not (2008) (51)
- Tone Systems in New Guinea (1997) (50)
- Word order in Austronesian from north to south and west to east (2007) (45)
- Typology and the Linguistic Macrohistory of Island Melanesia (2007) (41)
- Word Order in New Guinea: Dispelling a Myth (2005) (39)
- Does phoneme inventory size correlate with population size? (2011) (39)
- Typological feature analysis models linguistic geography (2011) (38)
- Banana (Musa spp.) domestication in the Asia-Pacific Region: linguistic and archaeobotanical perspectives (2009) (37)
- What's happened to us ? Some developments in the Malay pronoun system (1998) (34)
- Complexities with restricted numeral systems (2008) (31)
- Horticultural experimentation in northern Australia reconsidered (2009) (29)
- The Papuan Language of Tambora (2007) (29)
- The Language of Lapita: Vanuatu and an Early Papuan Presence in the Pacific (2009) (27)
- A grammar of the Skou language of New Guinea (2004) (26)
- Coding choices in argument structure: Austronesian applicatives in texts (2001) (25)
- Typology and Linguistic Areas (2004) (25)
- Some principles on the use of macro-areas in typological comparison (2014) (24)
- Much ado about nothing: features and zeroes in Germanic noun phrases (2000) (24)
- The tonal system of Skou, New Guinea (2003) (24)
- Papuan Malay Pronominals: Forms And Functions (2007) (23)
- Morphological Templates, Headedness, and Applicatives in Barupu (2003) (23)
- Configurationality in the Languages of New Guinea (2005) (22)
- Languages and Genes Attest Different Histories in Island Southeast Asia (2011) (22)
- The Semantics of Semantic Alignment in eastern Indonesia (2008) (20)
- Which Sounds Change: Descent and Borrowing in the Skou Family (2002) (19)
- Agreement in the Skou Language: A Historical Account (2003) (18)
- Ergativity: some additions from Indonesia (1999) (18)
- The Original Banana Split: Multi-disciplinary implications of the generation of African and Pacific Plantains in Island Southeast Asia (2015) (17)
- The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (2003) (17)
- New methodologies for historical linguistics?: Calibrating a lexicon-based methodology for diffusion vs. subgrouping (2012) (16)
- Bajau: A Symmetrical Austronesian Language (1996) (15)
- A Grammar of Hatam, Bird's Head Peninsula, Irian Jaya (review) (2003) (15)
- Quantifying areality: A study of prenasalisation in Southeast Asia and New Guinea (2011) (15)
- The Palu'e passive: from pragmatic construction to grammatical device (2005) (13)
- The Tukang Besi language of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia (1995) (12)
- Whence the Austronesian Indirect Possession Construction? (2009) (11)
- On the special status of instrumentals (2004) (11)
- A note on verbal agreement in Maung (1998) (11)
- Meeting in the middle: interaction in North-Central New Guinea (2005) (11)
- Tone and the Trans New Guinea languages (2005) (10)
- Reconnecting Genes, Languages and Material Culture in Island Southeast Asia: Aphorisms on Geography and History (2012) (10)
- What agreement in Chamorro (1999) (10)
- Variation in voice in Indonesian / Malay: historical and synchronic perspectives (2007) (9)
- Split Intransitivity and Saweru (2001) (9)
- Lack of correspondence between Asian-Papuan genetic admixture and Austronesian language dispersal in eastern Indonesia (2012) (9)
- Isaka: A sketch grammar of a language of north-central New Guinea (2004) (8)
- Narrating Disaster through Participatory Research: Perspectives from Post-Earthquake Nepal (2018) (8)
- An Archaeological Review of Western New Guinea (2013) (8)
- Lapita and Proto-Oceanic (2012) (8)
- SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES IN TUKANG BESI (2009) (8)
- Bound pronominals in the West Papuan languages (2008) (8)
- Malay as a mirror of Austronesian: Voice development and voice variation (2008) (7)
- Commentary: Culture mediates the effects of humidity on language (2016) (7)
- Coronals and Velars: Support for Blust (2006) (7)
- Complex predicates and bipartite stems in Skou (2008) (6)
- Case and configurationality: scrambling or mapping? (2011) (6)
- Numerals and their position in universal grammar (2005) (6)
- Towards a Papuan history of languages (2013) (6)
- Prospects for the future of educational research (2012) (6)
- Pronouns and Gender: Exploring Nominal Classification Systems in Northern New Guinea (2000) (6)
- Survey Report of the North Coast of Irian Jaya (2002) (5)
- Coding choices in argument structure (2001) (5)
- Syntactic Roles vs. Semantic Roles: External Possession in Tukang Besi (1999) (5)
- Negative Grammatical Functions in Skou (2006) (5)
- Transitivity in Tukang Besi (1998) (5)
- Syntatic and Lexical Factors Conditioning the Diffusion of Sound Change (2005) (5)
- The many origins of diversity and complexity in phonology (2011) (4)
- The shape and spread of tone (2012) (4)
- Normalization of Zhangzhou Citation Tones (2016) (4)
- Consensus and the lexicon in historical linguistics: Rejoinder to “Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics” (2012) (4)
- Covert word classes : Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi (2008) (4)
- Mapping the middle ground between foragers and farmers (2022) (3)
- Some trade languages of insular South-East Asia and Irian Jaya (1996) (3)
- Report on the Ansus Survey West Yapen Island Papua, Indonesia (2009) (3)
- Warembori grammar sketch (1999) (3)
- Verbal Inflection in Iha: A Multiplicity of Alignments (2015) (3)
- Becoming Austronesian : mechanisms of language dispersal across southern Island Southeast Asia * (2013) (3)
- Split intransitivity in Tukang Besi (1996) (3)
- The Laryngeal Gesture in Austronesian Languages: A Terminological Quibble (2003) (3)
- The pretenders to the Muna-Buton group (2004) (3)
- Papuan Malay of New Guinea: Melanesian influence on verb and clause structure (2011) (3)
- THE CASE OF POSSESSORS AND 'SUBJECTS' * (2010) (3)
- Different subjects, different marking (2009) (3)
- POc *ma- and the Adjectives: Oceanic as Seen through Possibly Productive Morphology in Tukang Besi (2004) (3)
- The Papuanness of Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands (2010) (2)
- Who inherits what, when? (2013) (2)
- Argument Structure and Adjuncts: Perspectives from New Guinea (2006) (2)
- The complexity of tone in Nubri (2019) (2)
- Evidence and stance in Kusunda (2013) (2)
- Papuan Languages (2021) (2)
- Papuan Malay of New Guinea (2011) (2)
- Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head (review) (2005) (2)
- Chapter 10. Becoming Austronesian (2020) (2)
- Syntactic Roles vs. Semantic Roles (1999) (1)
- Rópu we te máwo pílang te : Skou dictionary draft (2002) (1)
- Structure is not syntax: passive functions in Tukang Besi (2005) (1)
- Morphological opacity: Rules of referral in Kanum verbs (2015) (1)
- Stability of word order: Even simple questions need careful answers (2011) (1)
- Extended ergativity in Bumthang (2020) (1)
- Pronouns, Clitics, Orders, and Grammaticalization in Tukang Besi (2008) (1)
- Classification and Human Language (2006) (1)
- A sociolinguistic sketch of New Guinea (2009) (1)
- A grammar of Maybrat: A language of the Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia (review) (2011) (1)
- Deixis in Kusunda (2014) (1)
- Number in Tolaki (2014) (1)
- Non-tonal prosody and non-standard phonetics in the Himalayas (2014) (1)
- Negation and nominalization in Kusunda (2014) (1)
- Patterns of nasalisation in languages near Vanimo (2008) (1)
- Australia and New Guinea (2020) (1)
- Obligatory Incorporation and 'Have' in Tukang Besi (2008) (1)
- The role of contact and language shift in the spread of Austronesian languages across Island Southeast Asia (2020) (1)
- Prosodic Contrasts and Segmental Analysis in Himalayan Languages (2018) (1)
- Truth, person, and personal truth (2019) (1)
- Dental discrepancies and the sound of Proto Austronesian (2009) (1)
- Studying Contact without Detailed Studies of the Languages Involved: A Non-Philological Approach to Language Contact (2012) (1)
- Floating quantifiers and universal grammar (2004) (1)
- Chapter 3. Syntactic units and the clause (1999) (0)
- Verbal Inflection in Iha (2015) (0)
- Chapter 2. Phonology and morphophonology (1999) (0)
- Chapter 11. Other verbal morphology (1999) (0)
- How many guests, what sort of hosts? (2008) (0)
- Supplementary materials for “ Consensus and the lexicon in historical linguistics ” : rejoinder to “ Bayesian phylolinguistics ” (2013) (0)
- Squib Coronals and Velars : Support for Blust (2000) (0)
- Chapter 13. Possession and possessive constructions (1999) (0)
- Case in an Austronesian Language (2008) (0)
- Chapter 12. Noun phrases: core and oblique phrases (1999) (0)
- Argument Dependencies in Tukang Besi (2007) (0)
- The eastern edge of Southeast Asia?: a linguistic area seen from its fringe (2014) (0)
- The history of the Tukang Besi pronominals (2009) (0)
- Title On ergativity in Bumthang (2016) (0)
- The asymmetrical categories of negation in Bumthang (2020) (0)
- On ergative case in Himalayan languages (2016) (0)
- Hierarchies in argument structure increasing processes: ranking causative and applicative (2008) (0)
- The segmental inflection of Bumthang verbs: exploring the boundary between phonology and morphophonology (2023) (0)
- Chapter 20. Pivots and grammatical relations (1999) (0)
- An Archaeological Review of Western New Guinea (2013) (0)
- TETRAHYDRODIBENZO ( BD )-PYRANS Inventor : (2017) (0)
- Syllables, Vowel Length and the Spread of Suprasegmentals (2009) (0)
- Squib The Language of Lapita : Vanuatu and an Early Papuan Presence in the Paci fi c (2000) (0)
- Squib Typology , Areality , and Diffusion (2000) (0)
- Lexicography for your friends (2007) (0)
- Prefixal ‘suffixes’ in Skou (2008) (0)
- Austronesian applicatives in texts * (2001) (0)
- N egation and G rammatical Functions in Skou (2002) (0)
- Irregularity and Pronomial Markedness: Where Favoritism Sets In (1999) (0)
- Chapter 17. Adverbials (1999) (0)
- Case in an Austronesian language: case distinguishability in Tukang Besi (2009) (0)
- Chapter 6. Demonstratives (1999) (0)
- Chapter 18. Conjoining (1999) (0)
- Verb-initial in non-verbal clauses? * (2006) (0)
- Alternative event codings (2008) (0)
- Chapter 15. Relative clauses (1999) (0)
- Chapter 4. Word classes (1999) (0)
- Book Reviews (2013) (0)
- Chapter 5. Pronouns (1999) (0)
- Chapter 9. Causative morphology (1999) (0)
- Chapter 7. Verb phrases (1999) (0)
- Chapter 14. Non-verbal and semi-verbal clauses (1999) (0)
- Chapter 8. Serial verb constructions (1999) (0)
- Foreign Exchange Rate and Economic Growth: The Case of Hong Kong (2017) (0)
- Language, Locality and Lifestyle in New Guinea (2020) (0)
- Nonverbal clause order in a verb-initial language (2005) (0)
- Wulguru: A salvage study of a north-eastern Australian language from Townsville (2007) (0)
- Chapter 16. Complementation (1999) (0)
- Language and dialect relations in Bumthang (2021) (0)
- Notes of the use of Geser as a trade language in eastern Indonesia (1996) (0)
- Chapter 10. Applicative morphology (1999) (0)
- Quantification in Kusunda (2017) (0)
- Chapter 19. Speech acts (1999) (0)
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