Biography

Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, known as Yanche, originates from Sumba Island in NTT Province, eastern Indonesia. He received the ANU University Research Scholarship and ANU HDR Fee Merit Scholarship in October 2021. These paved the way for his Ph.D. research in linguistics, supervised by Professor I Wayan Arka, officially commencing in June 2022. Ghanggo Ate's Ph.D. research focus centers on documenting and comprehensively analysing Kodhi/Kodi, an Austronesian language spoken in Sumba Island. Before joining CHL, he served as a research assistant to eminent linguists, Professor I Wayan Arka and Professor Masayoshi Shibatani (Rice University, USA), contributing to research projects supported by entities like the NSF, Humboldt-Stiftung, and the ARC. He was also involved as an investigator/coder for the GRAMBANK Project at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany. In 2021-2022, he actively collaborated on the Universal Morphology (UniMorph) project, contributing to the processing of complex morphology for Human Language Technology applications, including Natural Language Processing (NLP). In addition, he has been a lecturer at Universitas Katolik Weetebula for over a decade. In 2020, he received the Language Legacy Grant from Endangered Language Fund, USA, supporting his Kodhi pilot research.

Research interest: endangered language documentation, morphology, syntax, theoretical linguistics (paradigm-based framework and lexically-based framework), anthropological linguistics, and mother-tongue based learning