I Wayan Arka, MPhil (Sydney), PhD (Sydney)
Fellow, Department of Linguistics

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 also now working on The Rongga Documentation Project, funded by the Hans Rausing ELDP, SOAS, London.

Research Interests

Austronesian and Papuan languages of Eastern Indonesia, language typology, syntactic theory, language documentation.

Key Publications

• 2008. Local autonomy, local capacity building and support for minority languages: Field experiences from Indonesia. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 1: 66-92.
• With C. D. Manning, 2008. 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.
• With J. Kosmas. 2005. 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.
• With Wechsler, S. 1998 'Syntactic ergativity in Balinese: An argument Structure Based Theory', Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 16, 387-441.

Career Highlights

Lecturer, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia (1986-2001); Fellow, RSPAS (2001-present).