Asia Institute website, viewed on 2 March 2012 about staff (Associate Professor Karl Alexander Adelaar FAHA ; Reader, Indonesian Studies ; Room 311, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Building 158, Parkville Campus, The University of Melbourne ; T: + 61 3 8344 5283 ; F: + 61 3 9349 3472 ; E: karlaa@unimelb.edu.au) background (Alexander Adelaar studied Indonesian languages and cultures and Austronesian linguistics at Leiden University, where he also lectured. He was a research fellow in Linguistics at the Australian National University and a Humboldt Fellow at Goethe University (Frankfurt) before coming to the University of Melbourne. His research includes comparative and descriptive linguistics with emphasis on varieties of Malay and the languages of Borneo (where he has conducted extensive field research), Madagascar and Taiwan. He is also interested in the oral and written literary traditions of Indonesia) http://www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au