I Wayan Arka, MPhil (Sydney), PhD (Sydney)
Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language
Email: wayan.arka@anu.edu.au
Biographical statement
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).
Research interests
Austronesian and Papuan languages of Eastern Indonesia, language typology, syntactic theory, language documentation.
Key publications
- 2011. A Rongga-English Dictionary. Jakarta: Atma Jaya University Press.
- 2010. Maintaining Vera in Rongga: struggles over culture and tradition in modern Manggarai-Indonesia. In Language endangerment in the Austronesian world: challenges and responses, edited by M. Florey, 90-109. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2009. On the zero (voice) prefix and bare verbs in the Austronesian languages of Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. In Discovering history through language: papers in honour of Malcolm Ross, edited by B. Evans, 247-270. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- 2008. Local autonomy, local capacity building and support for minority languages: Field experiences from Indonesia. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 1: 66-92.
- 2008. With C. D. Manning, Voice and grammatical relations in Indonesian: a new perspective. In Voice and grammatical relations in Austronesian languages, edited by P. K. Austin and S. Musgrave, 45-69. Stanford: CSLI.
- 2008. Core argument alternations in some Austronesian languages of Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. In Voice and grammatical relations in Austronesian languages, edited by P. K. Austin and S. Musgrave. Stanford: CSLI, 183-227.
- 2005. Speech levels, social predicates, and pragmatic structure in Balinese: a lexical approach. Pragmatics, 15 (2/3), 169-203.
- 2005. With J. Kosmas. Passive without passive morphology? Evidence from Manggarai. In I W. Arka and M.D. Ross (eds), The many faces of Austronesian voice systems: some new empirical studies, 87-117. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- 2003. Balinese morphosyntax: a lexical-functional approach. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- 2003. Voice systems in the Austronesian languages of Nusantara: Typology, symmetricality and Undergoer orientation, Linguistik Indonesia 21(1):113-139.
- 1998. With Wechsler, S. 'Syntactic ergativity in Balinese: An argument Structure Based Theory', Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 16, 387-441.
Career highlights
Lecturer, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia (1986-present); Fellow, CHL (2001-present).
