Karlina Denistia, S.S., M.A., Ph.D.

karlinadenistia@staff.uns.ac.id

Karlina Denistia earned her doctorate in quantitative linguistics from the University of Tübingen, Germany. Karlina is currently a lecturer in the English Diploma Program at the Vocational School of Universitas Sebelas Maret. “Being a person who brings positive impacts to others” is Karlina’s life motto, which motivates her to remain productive in writing, teaching, and conducting research.

As a linguist, Karlina also publishes her corpus-based language research in national and international journals. Her recent studies include a quantitative study on the corpus study of Indonesian morphology. She is interested in working with big data to explore the combinability of morphemes from form and meaning. Since 2010, Karlina has published several books, including “Words that Work: Strategi Jitu Membuat Slogan yang Efektif”, “EGNLISH,”, #easyenglish part 1, 2, 3, Think and Link: Bahasa Beralih, Pesan tak Tersisih, and “English Missions.”

Research Interest

1.Morphology 2.Corpus Linguistics 3.Semantics 4.Cognitive Linguistics

Publication

Books : – Hapsari, P. W., Denistia, K., Priharsari, D., Shabrina, N. L., Prameswara, E., Prasetyo, L. D. R., Radiani, R. I. (2025). EasyEnglish part 3: Life-Based Experiences that other Books won’t Tell you Yogyakarta: Deepublish Publisher. – Hapsari, P., Denistia, K., Rusjayanti, A., Wikanditha, K., Murti, B. D., Prabowo, S. A., Atika, K., Damayanti, A. . A., (2025). THINK AND LINK: Bahasa Beralih, Pesan Tak Tersisih. Malang: PT. Literasi Nusantara Abadi Grup. 2024 Denistia, K. et al. (2024). Bersiap! Panduan persiapan beasiswa studi luar negeri Jakarta: Akhirpekan. – Sari, I. M., Denistia, K., Wulandari, D. (2024). Descriptive Linguistics: Teacher’s Book. Malang: PT. Literasi Nusantara Abadi Grup. – Sari, I. M., Denistia, K., Wulandari, D. (2024). Descriptive Linguistics: Student’s Book. Malang: PT. Literasi Nusantara Abadi Grup. – Denistia, K. , Yuda, J.P., Wulandari, D., Sari, I.M., Perwira, Y.K., Priyanto, A.D., Tufiq, B.R., Prameswari, G.F., Ichsan, N., Lumbantoruan, N.I.C.. (2023). Words that Work: Strategi Jitu Membuat Slogan yang Efektif. Jakarta: Indonesia Tera. – Harmia, C., Denistia, K., Yuda, J. P.. (2023). British Parliamentary Debate: A Practical Guide. Malang: PT. Literasi Nusantara Abadi Grup. – Denistia, K. (2016). EasyEnglish: Think English, Think Easy (part 2). Jakarta: Panda Media. – Denistia, K. (2016). EGNLISH. Yogyakarta: Bentang Belia. – Dia, K. and Wulandari, M. (2016). English Missions. Yogyakarta: B-First. – Nafisah, D. and Denistia, K. (2016). Umrah for Beginners. Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama. – Denistia, K. (2016). EasyEnglish: Think English, Think Easy (part 1). Jakarta: Gagas Media. Article publication – Wulandari, D., Denistia, K., Yuda, J. P., Perwira, Y. K., Sari, I. M., Priyanto, A. D., Prihandoko, L. A. (2026). Penyusunan Novel Grafis Bilingual sebagai Media Edukasi Atsiri kepada Masyarakat. Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Indonesia, 6(1), 84-90. – Priatini, P., Alifya, S. A., Humairoh, K. N., Rahayu, S., Aninditya, A. E., Denistia, K. (2026). Metafora Konseptual pada Leksem “Bunga”: Analisis Kualitatif dan Kuantitatif Berbasis Korpus. Linguistik Indonesia 44(2): 343-361. – Sutrisno, A., and Denistia, K.. (2025). Translating English -ed Reduced Relative Clauses into Indonesian: Corpus Evidence and Pedagogical Implications LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching 28(2): 729-745. – Denistia, K., Yuda, J.P., Perwira, Y. K., Sari, I.M., Wulandari, D., Priyanto, A.D.. (2024). Linguistics Aspects of English Slogans in Indonesian Product Brands: An Initial Corpus Study. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 13(3): 535-546. – Sutrisno, A., and Denistia, K.. (2024). A Corpus Analysis on the Use of Relative Clauses in Science, Engineering, and Business Journal Articles Written by Indonesian Authors. Journal of Language and Literature (JOLL) 24(2): 510-522. – Denistia, K. and Rajeg, G. P. W.. (2024). Afiksasi nomina dalam bahasa Indonesia In S. S. T. W. Sasangka, E. T. S. Sujatna, M. U. Muslim, U. Kulsum, Iwa Lukmana (Eds.) Bunga rampai artikel tata bahasa kontemporer Indonesia: Morfologi (pp. 64-93). Jakarta: Kementerian Pendidikan, Kebudayaan, Riset dan Teknologi. – Rajeg, G. P. W. and Denistia, K.. (2024). Afiksasi verba dalam bahasa Indonesia In S. S. T. W. Sasangka, E. T. S. Sujatna, M. U. Muslim, U. Kulsum, Iwa Lukmana (Eds.) Bunga rampai artikel tata bahasa kontemporer Indonesia: Morfologi (pp. 28-63). Jakarta: Kementerian Pendidikan, Kebudayaan, Riset dan Teknologi. – Wulandari, D., Denistia, K., Yuda, J.P., Perwira, Y. K., Sari, I.M., Inderajati, A., Priyanto, A.D.. (2024). Peningkatan kualitas sumber daya manusia di Rumah Atsiri Indonesia melalui modul penyusunan pelatihan bilingual. Jurnal J-Dinamika, 9(2):197-203 – Denistia, K. and Baayen, H. (2023). Affix substitution in Indonesian: A computational modeling approach. Linguistics 61(1): 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0191 – Denistia, K. (2023). Databases on the Indonesian prefixes PE- and PEN-. Journal of Language and Literature, 23(1):13-24. https://doi.org/10.24071/joll – Yuda, J.P., Wulandari, D., Sari, I.M., Priyanto, A.D., Denistia, K., Perwira, Y.K.. (2023). Genre of application description on Google Play Store: A functional linguistics study. Haluan Sastra, 7(1):51-67. – Yuda, J.P., Wulandari, D., Perwira, Y.K., Denistia, K., Sari, I.M., Priyanto, A.D.. (2023). Developing infographics as wellness education media and local product internationalization. MUDRA Jurnal Seni dan Budaya, 38(4):378-384. – Denistia, K., Shafaei-Bajestan, E., and Baayen, R. H. (2022). Exploring semantic differences between the Indonesian prefixes PE- and PEN- using a vector space model. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 18(3). 573–598. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2020-0023 – Denistia, K., and Baayen, H. (2022). The morphology of Indonesian: Data and quantitative modeling. In Shei, C., and Li, S. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics (pp. 605-634). London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003090205-41 – Perwira, Y. K., Wulandari, D., Yuda, J.P., Priyanto, A.D., Sari, I.M., and Denistia, K. (2022). Pembuatan deskripsi produk katalog dwibahasa untuk mendukung pemasaran produk kerajinan rotan di desa wisata Trangsan, Gatak, Sukoharjo. ABDIMAS Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat, 26(1):24-32. – Denistia, K. and Baayen, R. H. (2019). The Indonesian prefixes PE- and PEN-: A study in productivity and allomorphy. Morphology, 29(3):385–407. – Denistia, K., Shafaei-Bajestan, E., and Baayen, R. H. (2019). Semantic vector model on the Indonesian prefixes PE- and PEN-. In Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1. – Rajeg, G. P. W., Denistia, K., and Musgrave, S. (2019). Vector space models and the usage patterns of Indonesian denominal verbs: A case study of verbs with men-, men-/- kan, and men-/-i affixes. NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia, 67(1):35–76. – 2018 Denistia, K. (2018). Revisiting the Indonesian preffixes peN-, pe2-, and per-. Linguistik Indonesia, 36(2):154–159. – Denistia, K. and Baayen, R. H. (2018). PE- and PEN-: A corpus based analysis in allomorphy. In Sukamto, K. E., editor. Prosiding Kongres Internasional Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia, pages 179-183. – Wijaya-Rajeg, G. P., Denistia, K., and Rajeg, I. M. Working with linguistic corpus using R: An introductory note with Indonesian negating construction. (2018). Linguistik Indonesia, 36(1):1–36. – Denistia, K. and Alip, F. B. (2014). The distribution of the agentive nominalizer of the suffixes -ER and -AN. Phenomena: Journal of language and literature, 14(1):50-60.

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