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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The Sixth International Symposium<br>
On The Languages Of Java</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">18-19 May 2017<br>
Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">First Call for Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The island of Java</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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—is the third largest local language, with counts ranging from
7 to 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.
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Abstracts</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;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:
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue"><tconners AT umd.edu></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Deadline</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2017
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Announcement</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> of acceptance: March 1, 2017
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Additional information and announcements:
</span><a href="http://jakarta.shh.mpg.de/isloj6.php">http://jakarta.shh.mpg.de/isloj6.php</a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Please note that the 21th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL 21) will be held in Langkawi, Malaysia, on 4-6 May, 2017, and the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society will
be held in Padang, West Sumatra, on 11-13 May, 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Co-sponsors</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">:<br>
University of Maryland<br>
University of Iowa<br>
University of British Columbia <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Co-organizers</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">:<br>
Thomas Conners, University of Maryland<br>
William Davies, University of Iowa<br>
Jozina Vander Klok, University of British Columbia <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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