I Wayan Arka

Professor I Wayan Arka is a Professor of Linguistics at the School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University. He holds Fellowships at the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) and Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA). His career includes leadership roles as Head of Linguistics Program and Convenor of Indonesian Language programs.

Education:

• MA (Applied Linguistics)
• MPhil (Linguistics, Sydney University)
• PhD (Linguistics, Sydney University)

His research spans theoretical, formal, and computational grammar, typology, and documentary linguistics with focus on Austronesian and Papuan languages. He integrates Lexical-Functional Grammar frameworks with corpus development, conducting extensive fieldwork in Indonesia. Current projects explore syntactic structures, language documentation, and digital preservation of endangered languages.

His publications demonstrate consistent focus on language description, computational modeling, and sociolinguistic aspects of Indonesian languages. Recent work emphasizes corpus-based analysis, language documentation technologies, and Austronesian syntactic typology.

Awards and Honors:

• Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (2021)
• Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities (2022)

He leads multiple international collaborations including ARC-funded Papuan language projects and UK AHRC-supported Enggano documentation initiatives. Supervises graduate research in syntax, language documentation, and computational linguistics.

Directs field research teams in Indonesia developing digital archives and community language resources, emphasizing collaborative methodologies with indigenous communities.