<p class=""><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US">The Fourth ISLOJ</span></b></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US">INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA</span></b></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US"> ***NEW
DATE***</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US">6-7
June 2013</span></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US">Bung
Hatta University</span></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US">Padang,
Sumatra, Indonesia</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The island of Java</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> is home
to several major languages. Javanese—spoken mainly in Central and East Java— is
the world’s 10th or 11th largest language in number of native speakers. It has
one of the oldest and fullest recorded histories of any Austronesian language.
It also has been of considerable interest to scholars because of the system of
speech levels or speech styles found in a number of varieties of Javanese.
Sundanese—spoken in West Java— has over 27 million speakers, and
Madurese—spoken on the neighboring island of Madura and throughout parts of
East Java—has over 13 million speakers. Varieties of both of these languages
have speech level systems and such systems can also be found in the
geographically, historically, and linguistically related languages on the neighboring
islands of Bali and Lombok. Each of these languages displays a range of
dialects, isolects, continua, and contact varieties and yet they have received
relatively little attention from linguists. With this symposium, we offer an
opportunity for scholars working on any aspect of Javanese, Sundanese,
Madurese, Balinese and Sasak to come together and share their findings. We aim
to encourage and promote continued research on these important and unique
languages. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Abstracts</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> are
invited for papers to be presented on any linguistic topics dealing with the
languages of Java and its environs—Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Balinese, and
Sasak. Papers on other languages will be judged according to their relevance to
the symposium topic. Papers are welcome from any subfield of linguistics and
using any approach or theoretical background. Studies of non-standard(ized)
versions, dialects, and isolects, including contact varieties, are particularly
welcome. All papers are to be presented in English. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Abstracts of one-page
[data and references may be on a second page] should be submitted in electronic
form (PDF AND MSWord) to Thomas Conners at the following address: <span style="color:blue"><tconners AT <a href="http://umd.edu">umd.edu</a>></span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Deadline</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> for
submission of abstracts: March 1, 2013 </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Announcement</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> of
acceptance: March 15, 2013.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">***<br>
Please note that the 17th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian
Linguistics (ISMIL 15) will be held immediately following ISLOJ, also in Padang,
on 8-9 June, 2013. For more information
see: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/17"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/17</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">***<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US">Co-sponsors:</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Universitas Bung Hatta, Padang</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">University of Maryland</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Universitas Katolik Atma Jaya</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Co-organizers:</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="NL">Zane Goebel, La
Trobe University</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Thomas Conners, University of Maryland</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Yacinta Kurniasih, Monash University</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Effendi Kadarisman, Universitas Negri
Malang</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">***<br>
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">For
more info</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">:<br>
ISLOJ: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj4.php"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj4.php</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p>