Talk:I Wayan Arka

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I Wayan Arka (born 1962) is an Indonesian-Balinese linguist, lecturer, scholar and researcher at Udayana University (UNUD) in Bali, Indonesia and the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. His work on theoretical and applied linguistics in Austronesian and Papuan languages is internationally recognised in addition to his ongoing education and community outreach engagements between Australia and Indonesia.

Career
Wayan completed his Bachelor of Arts with a major in English Linguistics at Udayana University in Bali, Indonesia in 1985 before completing his Master of Arts in Teaching English as a second or foreign language (TESOL) / applied linguistics at the Hasanuddin University, Indonesia in 1990. He moved to Sydney, Australia in 1995 to complete his Master of Philosophy with a specialisation in linguistics. Wayan obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney in 1999.

Since completing his Master degree in 1995, Wayan has held a number of academic appointments at various institutions. He was an invited visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University (1995), faculty member, researcher and deputy-head at the Research Center for Technology and Arts, UNUD (1998-2001), research fellow at the Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies at ANU, (2001-2003) and affiliated research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University (2006). Wayan was also appointed the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) postdoctoral fellowship with the Research School of Pacific Studies from 2004-2006, the Georg Forster Humboldt Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Cologne from 2012-2014 and professorial fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 2017.

Wayan is currently a professor of linguistics at the School of Culture, History & Language (CHL) of the College of Asia & the Pacific (CAP), ANU (2007 - present), a lecturer at UNUD (1985 - present) and invited visiting scholar at the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford (2019 - present).

Research
Wayan specialises in Austronesian and Papuan languages of Indonesia. His research spans various sub-disciplines of linguistics, including linguistic description, language documentation, linguistic typology, theoretical linguistics, formal linguistics and computational linguistics.

Interests
Wayan's research aims to generate a deep understanding of how internal language systems work, including how they can be explicitly modelled, computationally tested and implemented. In addition, Wayan's research deals with the extent to which languages vary or are similar in terms of particular (sub)systems in their grammars. Towards these ends, his notable contributions to the study of linguistics includes a novel argument-index analysis that provides strong empirical evidence of the gradient nature of the argument–adjunct distinction, contrary to a purely lexically-based syntactic theory. His research on large-scale computational grammar development in Indonesian was the first of its kind.

Field work
Wayan works with indigenous minority communities across Indonesia, including Papua, to explore new ways of documenting languages, gain an understanding of the complexity of language endangerment and produce insights into linguistics and related disciplines to advance the new and emerging field of language documentation or documentary linguistics. His contribution to this field includes a new model of language management that can account for complex issues of language policy affecting the maintenance of indigenous minority languages in Indonesia.

Current projects and service
Wayan is currently working on the Enggano language, an endangered language on the island of Enggano, southwest of Bengkulu, Sumatra based on a small grant from the Endangered Language Fund and a AHRC grant.

Education service
Wayan has carried out more applied work in Indonesian communities in various capacities, such as community service and language documentation in Merauke, Indonesia. He developed strong links between ANU and Indonesian government institutions, non-governmental organisations and local communities, which have strengthened ANU's outreach to and impact on Indonesia. A recent initiative includes the establishment of the CIRHSS, a partnership between ANU and UNUD.