Arafiq is a senior lecturer at the Department of English Language and Education of University of Mataram, Indonesia. He graduated from the Institute of Teacher Training and Education of Mataram (Now UNDIKMA), Indonesia in December 2000. He obtained his master’s degree in Linguistics in October 2005 from Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia. His research interests are syntax, typology, and language teaching. He teaches Linguistics Subjects and English for Tourism. He has written several books such as Introduction to Linguistics (2009) and English Phonology (2022). He also has published several articles, such as Syntactical Distributions of Pronouns in Sambori Language (2018), The Syntax of the Personal Pronouns in the Bima Language (2020), Constituent Order of Clause in the Bima Language (2023), and Relativization in the Bima Language: Redefining Subject in Primitive Semantic Universals (2023).