Dr I Wayan Arka
MPhil (Sydney), PhD (Sydney)
Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Computational Linguistics 200402
- Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) 200405
- Indonesian Languages 200313
- Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200406
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Lexicography 200407
- Linguistics 2004
Research interests
Austronesian and Papuan languages of Eastern Indonesia, language typology, syntactic theory, language documentation.
Biography
My current project on the typological study of core arguments and marking in Austronesian languages is an extension of my previous collaborative project with Indonesian linguists on the languages of Eastern Indonesia. I am still working on my Rongga materials collected for The Rongga Documentation Project, funded by the Hans Rausing ELDP grant (2004-6). I am also currently doing collaborative research on voice in the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia (funded by an NSF grant, 2006-2009), Indonesian Parallel Grammar Project (funded by a near-miss grant from Sydney University (2007) and an ARC Discovery grant (2008-2011), and the languages of Southern New Guinea (funded by an ARC grant 2011-2015).
Career Highlights
Lecturer, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia (1986-2001); Fellow, RSPAS (2001-present).
Publications
- Arka, I 2013, 'Language management and minority language maintenance in Indonesia: Strategic issues', International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation 2011, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Mistica, M, Baldwin, T & Arka, I 2012, 'Word Classes in Indonesian: A Linguistic Reality or a Convenient Fallacy in Natural Language Processing?', Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation 2011, ed. Hong Gao and Dong, ACL Anthology, Singapore, pp. pp 293-302.
- Arka, I 2012, 'Developing a Deep Grammar of Indonesian within the ParGram Framework: Theoretical and Implementational Challenges', International Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation 2012, ed. Min-Yen Kan, Conference Organising Committee, Indonesia, pp. 19-38.
- Arka, I 2012, Kamus Bahasa Rongga-Indonesia: dengan Pelacak Kata Bahasa Indonesia-Rongga, Penerbit Universitas Atma Jaya, Jakarta Indonesia.
- Arka, I 2012, 'Projecting Morphology and Agreement in Marori, an isolate of Southern New Guinea', in Nicholas Evans and Marian Klamer (ed.), Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu Hawaii, pp. 150-173.
- Arka, I 2012, 'Verbal number, argument number and plural events in Marori', International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG 2012), ed. Butt and King, CSU publications, Ventura Hall, Stanford University USA, USA, Stanford University.
- Arka, I, Seda, F, Gelang, A et al 2011, A Rongga-English Dictionary with English-Rongga Finderlist, Penerbit Universitas Atma Jaya, Jakarta Indonesia.
- Arka, I 2011, Stories From Rongga, Ledalero, Maumere.
- Arka, I, ed., 2011, Constructive Number Systems in Marori and Beyond, CSLI Publications, Stanford USA.
- Arka, I & Simpson, J 2008, 'Objective Voice and Control into Subject Clauses in Balinese', in Peter K. Austin and Simon Musgrave (ed.), Voice and Grammatical Relations in Austronesian Languages, CSLI Publications, Stanford University, pp. 90-127.
- Arka, I, Mahendran, R & Manurung, R 2009, 'A Two-Level Morphological Analyser for the Indonesian Language', Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTA 2008), ed. D. Powers and N. Stokes, Australasian Language Technology Association, Australia, pp. 142-150.
- Arka, I & Nyoman, S 2009, 'Diglosia, Kontak Bahasa, dan Bahasa Minoritas: Sebuah Studi Awal Kata Serapan dalam Bahasa Rongga (Diglossia, language contact, and minority languages: a preliminary study of loan words in Rongga)', Linguistik Indonesia, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 131-143.
- Arka, I 2009, 'On the zero (voice) prefix and bare verbs in Austronesian languages of Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia', in Bethwyn Evans (ed.), Discovering history through language: papers in honour of Malcolm Ross, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 247-270.
- Arka, I 2009, 'Maintaining Vera in Rongga: Struggles over culture, tradition, and language in modern Manggarai, Flores, Indonesia', in Margaret Florey (ed.), Endangered Languages of Austronesia, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 90-109.
- Mistica, M, Andrews, A, Arka, I et al 2009, 'Double Double, Morphology and Trouble: Looking into Reduplication in Indonesian', Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTA 2009), ed. Luiz Pizzato and Rolf Schwitter, Australasian Language Technology Association, Sydney, pp. 44-52.
- Arka, I 2008, 'Local autonomy, local capacity building and support for minority languages: Field experiences from Indonesia', in D Victoria Rau and Margaret Florey (ed.), Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages, University of Hawaii Press, Manoa, pp. 66-92.
- Arka, I 2008, 'Voice and Being Core: Evidence from (Eastern) Indonesian Languages', in Peter K. Austin and Simon Musgrave (ed.), Voice and Grammatical Relations in Austronesian Languages, CSLI Publications, Stanford University, pp. 183-227.
- Arka, I & Manning, C 2008, 'Voice and grammatical relations in Indonesian: A new perspective', in Peter K. Austin and Simon Musgrave (ed.), Voice and Grammatical Relations in Austronesian Languages, CSLI Publications, Stanford University, pp. 45-69.
- Arka, I 2008, 'Voice and the Syntax of =a/-a Verbs in Balinese', in Peter K. Austin and Simon Musgrave (ed.), Voice and Grammatical Relations in Austronesian Languages, CSLI Publications, Stanford University, pp. 70-89.
- Arka, I & Simpson, J 2008, 'Objective Voice and Control into Subject Clauses in Balinese', in Peter K. Austin and Simon Musgrave (ed.), Voice and Grammatical Relations in Austronesian Languages, CSLI Publications, Stanford University, pp. 90-127.
- Arka, I 2008, 'Classifiers in Rongga', Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures, vol. 18, pp. 1-17.
- Arka, I 2006, 'Balinese', in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 654-657.
- Arka, I 2005, 'Challenges and Prospect of Maintaining Rongga: an Ethnographic Report', Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2004, ed. I Mushin, University of Sydney, Sydney Australia, p. 19.
- Arka, I & Kosmas, J 2005, 'Passive without passive morphology? Evidence from Manggarai', in I Wayan Arka and Malcolm Ross (ed.), The many faces of Austronesian voice systems: some new empirical studies, Pacific Linguistics, RPAS, Australian National University, Canberra, pp. 87-117.
- Arka, I 2005, 'Speech levels, social predicates and pragmatic structure in Balinese: A lexical approach', Pragmatics, vol. 15, no. 2/3, pp. 169-203.
- Arka, I & Ross, M 2005, 'Introduction [The many faces of Austronesian voice systems: some new empirical studies]', in I Wayan Arka and Malcolm Ross (ed.), The many faces of Austronesian voice systems: some new empirical studies, Pacific Linguistics, RPAS, Australian National University, Canberra, pp. 1-15.
- Arka, I 2003, 'Voice systems in the Austronesian languages of Nusantara: Typology, symmetricality and Undergoer orientation', Linguistik Indonesia, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 113-139.
- Arka, I 2003, Balinese morphosyntax: a lexical-functional approach, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra.
- Arka, I & Nazara, W 2002, 'Reflexivisation without reflexives: a note from Nias', Linguistika, vol. 9, no. 17, pp. 265-279.
Projects and Grants
- The Languages of Southern New Guinea, an unexplored Linguistic Hotspot (Secondary Investigator)
- Understanding Indonesian: developing a machine-usable grammar, dictionary and corpus (Secondary Investigator)
