karlinadenistia@staff.uns.ac.id
Biography
Karlina Denistia earned her doctorate in Quantitative Linguistics from the University of Tübingen, Germany. She is currently a lecturer in the English Diploma Program at the Vocational School of Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS). Guided by her personal motto, “Being a person who brings positive impacts to others,” she actively contributes to teaching, research, and academic writing.
As a linguist, Karlina specializes in corpus-based language research and quantitative approaches to linguistic analysis. Her recent studies focus on Indonesian morphology, particularly the relationship between form and meaning in morpheme combinations using large linguistic datasets. In addition to publishing research in national and international journals, she has authored and co-authored numerous books in linguistics, language learning, and communication. Her publications include Words that Work: Strategi Jitu Membuat Slogan yang Efektif, EasyEnglish, THINK AND LINK: Bahasa Beralih, Pesan Tak Tersisih, and English Missions.
Research Interest
- Morphology
- Corpus Linguistics
- Semantics
- Cognitive Linguistics
Publications
Selected Books
- EasyEnglish Part 3: Life-Based Experiences that Other Books Won’t Tell You (2025)
- THINK AND LINK: Bahasa Beralih, Pesan Tak Tersisih (2025)
- Bersiap! Panduan Persiapan Beasiswa Studi Luar Negeri (2024)
- Descriptive Linguistics: Teacher’s Book (2024)
- Descriptive Linguistics: Student’s Book (2024)
- Words that Work: Strategi Jitu Membuat Slogan yang Efektif (2023)
- British Parliamentary Debate: A Practical Guide (2023)
- English Missions (2016)
- EasyEnglish: Think English, Think Easy (2016)
Selected Journal Articles
- Affix Substitution in Indonesian: A Computational Modeling Approach (Linguistics, 2023)
- Exploring Semantic Differences Between the Indonesian Prefixes PE- and PEN- (Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2022)
- The Morphology of Indonesian: Data and Quantitative Modeling (Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics, 2022)
- The Indonesian Prefixes PE- and PEN-: A Study in Productivity and Allomorphy (Morphology, 2019)
- Semantic Vector Model on the Indonesian Prefixes PE- and PEN- (2019)
- Revisiting the Indonesian Prefixes peN-, pe-, and per- (Linguistik Indonesia, 2018)
Curriculum Vitae:
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Professional Certification
- Teaching International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
- Teaching English for Foreign Language for Adult
- Nonfiction Book Author Certification
Education
- Ph.D. in Quantitative Linguistics
- University of Tübingen, Germany
Courses Taught
- Academic Writing
- English Grammar
- English for Professional Communication
- Translation
- Content and Copy Writing
- IELTS Preparation
