I Wayan Arka

I Wayan Arka
ᬇᬯᬬᬦ᭄ᬅᬃᬓ
Born1962
Bali, Indonesia
NationalityIndonesian
CitizenshipIndonesian
OccupationLinguist
AwardsFellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Academic background
EducationEnglish linguistics; TESOL; Linguistics
ThesisFrom morphosyntax to pragmatics in Balinese
Doctoral advisorWilliam A. Foley
Jane Simpson
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineLinguistic description, Language documentation, Linguistic typology, Theoretical linguistics, Formal linguistics, Computational linguistics.
InstitutionsThe Australian National University / Udayana University
Websitehttps://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/arka-iww

I Wayan Arka (Balinese: ᬇᬯᬬᬦ᭄ᬅᬃᬓ) FASSA FAHA (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.

Arka 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 Hasanuddin University, Indonesia in 1990. He moved to Sydney, Australia in 1995 to complete his Master of Philosophy with a specialisation in linguistics. Arka obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney in 1999.

Arka 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).