Dr Cathryn Donohue
Areas of expertise
- Linguistics 2004
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science 200404
- Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200406
- Chinese Languages 200311
- South East Asian Languages (Excl. Indonesian) 200314
- Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) 200405
Research interests
Morphosyntax (especially case marking and agreement), tonal phenomena (phonetics, phonology, perception), language variation, issues in language vitality.
Sino-Tibetan languages (especially Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas).
Biography
I am a field linguist, working with lesser studied/endangered languages, focusing on issues of micro- and macro-variation as well as language vitality and maintenance.
ANU trained as an undergraduate (first class Honours), but US trained for docotoral studies (PhD Stanford) created a mix of both appreciation of data and pretheoretical analyses, as well as typological implications of theoretical proposals as seen in the work I do.
Researcher's projects
Nubri language project Documentation and description of Nubri language: sociolinguistic landscape, morphosyntactic variation. Community literacy and outreach.
Bumthang language project Case variation in Bumthang
Hong Kong Minority Dialects Salvage documentary work, sociolinguistic studies.
Publications
- Donohue, C & Donohue, M 2016, 'On ergativity in Bumthang', Language (Washington), vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 179-188.
- Donohue, C 2015, 'On variable auxiliary selection in Western Europe', Linguistic Research, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 469-480.
- Donohue, C 2013, Fuzhou tonal acoustics and tonology, Lincom Europa, Munich, Germany.
- Donohue, C. 2013b. The role of phonation in Fuzhou tonology. Proceedings of the 24th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-24).
- Donohue, C 2013c, 'The Interaction of Tones and Vowels in Fuzhou', The Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, ed. Thera Crane, Oana David, Donna Fenton, Hannah J. Jaynie, Shira Katseff et al, Sheridan Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan, pp. 97 - 105.
- Donohue, Cathryn and Manxiang Wu. 2013. Proceedings of the International Conference on Phonetics of the Languages in China (ICPLC-13). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
- Donohue, C, Ishihara, S & Steed, W, eds, 2012, Quantitative approaches to problems in linguistics, Lincom Europa, Munich, Germany.
- Donohue, Cathryn. 2012. The role of contour and phonation in Fuzhou tonal identification. In Cathryn Donohue et al. (eds), Quantitative approaches to problems in linguistics, pp. 63-75. Munich: Lincom Europa.
- Donohue, Cathryn, Shunichi Ishihara, and William Steed. 2012. Many voices, many tones. In Cathryn Donohue et al. (eds), Quantitative approaches to problems in linguistics, pp. 1-7. Munich: LINCOM Europa.
- Donohue, Cathryn, Shunichi Ishihara, and William Steed (eds). 2012. Quantitative approaches to problems in Linguistics (LINCOM Studies in Phonetics 08). Munich: LINCOM Europa.
- Kumar, Ann, Cathryn Donohue, and Shunichi Ishihara. 2012. Phil Rose: A short biography. In Cathryn Donohue et al. (eds), Quantitative approaches to problems in linguistics, pp. v-ix. Munich: LINCOM Europa.
- Donohue, Cathryn. 2011, Towards an understanding of dative objects in Basque: a logistic regression analysis. Morphology 21 (3-4): 487-497.
- Donohue, Cathryn. 2011. The significance of 'secondary cues' for tonal identification in Fuzhou. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Hong Kong. pp. 607-610.
- Donohue, Cathryn. 2011. Identifying Fuzhou level tones: f0 or phonation? Proceedings of the Psycholinguistic Representation of Linguistic Tone Conference. Chinese University of Hong Kong. 101.
- Donohue, Cathryn, and Jóhanna Barðdal. 2011. Morphological case. Morphology 21 (3-4): 481-485.
- Donohue, Cathryn. 2010. On the perception of tones in Fuzhou. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 128 (4): 2476.
- Donohue, Cathryn. 2010. Pitch height vs contour in tonal perception in Fuzhou. BLS 35: 95-98.
- Donohue, Cathryn, and Mark Donohue. 2010. The case of possessors and 'subjects'. In Raphael Mercardo, Eric Potsdam, Lisa de Mena Travis (eds), Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics Linguistik Aktuell vol. 167, pp. 103-116. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
