
Christian Döhler
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 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 with a grammatical description of Komnzo in 2016 at the Australian National University, Canberra. The dissertation was published as a reference grammar of Komnzo in 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cologne on the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) “A comprehensive documentation of Bine – a language of Southern New Guinea”.
He is currently employed at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics in Berlin working on the topics of language documentation and description, small-scale multilingualism and distributed exponence in verb morphology.





