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language description, papuan languages, linguistic typology, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics
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Biography

Christian Döhler completed his M.A. in Political Science at the Chemnitz University of Technology and obtained an Honours Degree in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Between 2010 and 2016 he has worked on the DOBES project „Nen and Komnzo - Two languages of Southern New Guinea" funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 2016 at the Australian National University, Canberra. Between 2017 and 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cologne on the ELDP project "A comprehensive documentation of Bine - a language of Southern New Guinea". From 2020 until 2023 he was employed at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) working on the topics of "language documentation in Southern New Guinea", "indigenous multilingualism" and "distributed exponence in verb morphology". He currently works in the DFG-funded project "Open Text Collections" hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin.

Activities

Employment (10)

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Berlin, DE

2023-09 to present
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Christian Döhler

Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: Berlin, DE

2020-01-01 to 2023-09 | Postdoctoral researcher (FB III 'Syntax & Lexicon')
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Christian Döhler

Universität zu Köln: Köln, DE

2017-11 to 2019-11 | Postdoctoral researcher (Department of General Linguistics)
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Australian National University: Canberra, AU

2017-07 to 2017-09 | Researcher (fieldwork) (School of Culture, History & Languages, Department of Linguistics)
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH: Berlin, DE

2016-11 to 2017-05 | Developer / Editor (Database Management & Development / Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception)
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Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: Kiel, DE

2015-11 to 2016-10 | Lecturer in linguistics (Institute for Scandinavian Studies, Frisian Studies and General Linguistics)
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Bildungswerkstatt Chemnitz gGmbH: Chemnitz, DE

2009-05 to 2009-10 | Teacher in English for special purposes
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Technische Universität Chemnitz: Chemnitz, DE

2007-10 to 2008-08 | Tutor (Department of English Linguistics)
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Technische Universität Chemnitz: Chemnitz, DE

2005-10 to 2008-03 | Tutor (Department of Political Sciences)
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Technische Universität Chemnitz: Chemnitz, DE

2005-03 to 2006-03 | Research assistant (Department of English Linguistics)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Australian National University: Canberra, AU

2010-02 to 2016-09 | PhD (School of Culture, History & Languages, Department of Linguistics)
Education
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Technische Universität Chemnitz: Chemnitz, DE

2002-10 to 2009-06 | Magister Artium (Department of Political Sciences, Department of English Linguistics)
Education
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University of Melbourne: Melbourne, AU

2006-02 to 2007-02 | Honours (School of Languages and Linguistics)
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Professional activities (11)

Language Science Press: Berlin, DE

2021-03 to present | Editorial Board Member (Comprehensive Grammar Library)
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Christian Döhler

Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) : ., US

2021 to present
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Christian Döhler

Language Science Press: Berlin, DE

2015 to present | Proofreader
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Christian Döhler

European Society for Oceanists: ., FR

2015 to present
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Christian Döhler

Association for Linguistic Typology: n/a, US

2022 | Georg von der Gabelentz Award for "A grammar of Komnzo"
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Christian Döhler

Language Science Press: Berlin, DE

2018 to 2021 | Editorial Board Member (Studies in Diversity Linguistics)
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Christian Döhler

Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network: Nijmegen, NL

2020 | Honourable Mention for the Franz Boas Award
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Australian National University School of Culture History and Language: Canberra, AU

2017 to 2017 | Stephen Wurm Graduate Prize for Pacific Linguistics
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Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network: Nijmegen, NL

2016 to 2016 | Honourable Mention for the Franz Boas Award
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Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen (GbS): Köln, DE

2014
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Christian Döhler

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: Leipzig, DE

2010-12 to 2011-06 | Visiting scholar (Department of Linguistics)
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Christian Döhler

Funding (2)

A comprehensive documentation of Bine - a language of Southern New Guinea

2017-11 to 2019-11 | Grant
Arcadia Fund (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: IPF0265
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Christian Döhler

Nen and Komnzo: Two languages of Southern Papua New Guinea

2011-03-25 to 2016-03-25 | Grant
Volkswagen Foundation (Hanover, DE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 85606
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Christian Döhler

Works (16)

Open Text Collections as a Resource for Doing NLP with Eurasian Languages

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) @ LREC-COLING 2024
2024-05 | Conference paper
URI:

https://aclanthology.org/2024.eurali-1.3

Contributors: Christian Döhler; Nordhoff, Sebastian; Seyfeddinipur, Mandana
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Christian Döhler

Special Volume: Applicatives in Austronesian Languages

NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia
2023 | Journal issue | Writing - review & editing
Contributors: Christian Döhler; Jozina Vander Klok; Jocelyn Aznar
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Christian Döhler

The middle template and other ways of expressing coreference in Komnzo

Reflexive constructions in the world’s languages
2023 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Christian Döhler
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Christian Döhler

Fluidity in argument indexing in Komnzo

Open Linguistics
2023-01-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2300-9969
Contributors: Christian Döhler
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Christian Döhler

Komnzo DoReCo dataset

2022 | Data set
Contributors: Christian Döhler
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Christian Döhler

Phonetics and phonology of Idi

Language Documentation and Conservation
2022 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85129870103

Part of ISSN: 19345275
Contributors: Schokkin, D.; Gast, V.; Evans, N.; Döhler, C.
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Christian Döhler via Scopus - Elsevier

Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion in Komnzo

Caused Accompanied Motion. Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective
2022-05-15 | Book chapter
Part of ISSN: 0167-7373
Contributors: Christian Döhler
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Christian Döhler
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Birds and places: What the lexicon reveals about multilingualism

International Journal of Bilingualism
2021-06-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1367-0069
Part of ISSN: 1756-6878
Contributors: Christian Döhler
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Komnzo text corpus (transcribed/translated)

Zenodo
2021-04 | Online resource
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Christian Döhler

A grammar of Komnzo

2018 | Dissertation/Thesis
ISBN:

978-3-96110-126-9

Contributors: Christian Döhler
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Christian Döhler via Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)

Deposit: collection of Bine language

Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR)
2018 | Data set
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Christian Döhler

The languages of Southern New Guinea

Walter de Gruyter
2017 | Book chapter
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Christian Döhler

Yamfinder

2016 | Data set
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Christian Döhler

Deposit: collection of Komnzo language

The Language Archive (TLA)
2015 | Data set
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Christian Döhler

Die Sprache des Migrationsdiskurses

Technische Universität Chemnitz
2008 | Dissertation/Thesis
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Christian Döhler

The clusivity flip - Patterns of deponency in Northern Australian languages

University of Melbourne
2007 | Dissertation/Thesis
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Christian Döhler