<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The Eighth </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF
JAVA</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Second Call for Papers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">14-15 May 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">University of Hawai’i, Mānoa</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Honolulu, Hawai’i</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The island of Java </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">is
home to several major world languages. Javanese—spoken mainly in Central and East
Java— is among the world’s most widely spoken languages 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 its unique speech level system. 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 up to 13 million speakers. Geography, history, and typology bind these
languages with linguistically related languages on the neighboring islands to
the east, Bali, where Balinese is spoken, and Lombok, where Sasak is spoken,
each by about 3 million speakers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">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, Sasak, or any non-Malay language spoken on these
islands, to come together and share their findings. We aim to encourage and
promote continued research on these important and unique languages. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Abstracts </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">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 class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Instructions</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">. Anonymous
abstracts of one-page [data and references may be on a second page] should be
submitted in electronic form (PDF and MSWord) to <isloj.linguistics AT
<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>>. Please indicate your name, affiliation, and title of abstract in
the body of the email</span>.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Deadline </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">for
submission of abstracts: 12 Noon ET (GMT + 5) February 14, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Announcement </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">of
acceptance: March 1, 2020.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Given the potential difficulty in obtaining a US visa, abstracts
from presenters who need to obtain a visa may be submitted at <u>any time</u>
prior to the deadline, and a determination will be made within two weeks of
submission. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Special Joint ISLOJ/ISMIL Session on m/Minimalism in ISMIL/ISLOJ
Languages </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Different varieties of Indonesian, Javanese and other ISLOJ/ISMIL
languages have been described as conforming to the general Western-Malayo
Polynesian (Indonesian-type language) typological pattern characterized by
moderately agglutinating morphology, symmetric voice systems, and fixed SVO
word order. Alternatively, they have been described as languages with free word
order, more isolating morphology, and no or few lexical category distinctions—typologically
more like mainland SEA languages. Part of this discrepancy arises from the
difference between standard and non-standard varieties. Malay is a macro-language that encompasses a
range of native Malay varieties spoken in and around the Malay Peninsula,
Sumatra, and Borneo; other varieties are based on a lingua franca Malay spoken
throughout the Indonesian archipelago; modern colloquial Indonesian varieties;
and the highly structured and standardized Indonesian. Javanese, by contrast,
has many regional varieties, but its standard variety is based on a prestige
variety spoken in the region of traditional political and cultural power. The
existence of this range of varieties has led to much research around the
question of how minimalist ISMIL/ISLOJ languages are from a typological
perspective, especially the non-standard varieties (inter alia Gil 2001, 2005,
2013, 2015; Conners, Bowden, and Gil 2015; Jackendoff and Wittenberg 2014;
Enfield 2017; Polinsky and Potsdam <i>In Press)
</i>Not only are these varieties relevant for a cross-linguistic understanding
and accounts of language complexity, the typological profile of ISMIL/ISLOJ
varieties also raises challenges for how best to account in various theoretical
frameworks, such as in Minimalism (Chomsky 1995, ff). This special joint
ISMIL/ISLOJ session invites papers to address these issues surrounding
minimalism and/or Minimalism in light of any of the following questions: </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">How complex are ISMIL/ISLOJ
languages cross-linguistically, compared to other Austronesian languages,
standard vs. non-standard varieties, between isolects/dialects?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">How can various theoretical
frameworks account for phenomena in ISMIL/ISLOJ languages – particularly more
functional (e.g., usage-based, constructionist approaches) or generative
frameworks (e.g., the Minimalist program)?
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">How do ISMIL/ISLOJ languages inform various theoretical
frameworks, both typologically and formally? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">m/Minimalism Keynote speakers</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">:</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Nick Enfield (University of Sydney)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Eva Wittenburg (University of California, San Diego)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Special Joint ISLOJ/ISMIL Plenary speaker</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Dwi Novi Djenar (University of Sydney)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Please note that the 24th International Symposium on
Malay-Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL 24) will be held adjacent to ISLOJ 8, on
15-16 May, 2020; and Southeast Asian Linguistics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Society (SEALS 30) will be held 18-21 May, 2020. All three conferences will take place at the
University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Co-sponsors:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">University of Maryland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">University of Oslo</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">National Science Foundation </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Co-organizers:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Thomas Conners, University of Maryland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Jozina Vander Klok, University of Oslo</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Bradley McDonnell, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">For more info:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">ISLOJ: </span><a href="https://indoling.com/isloj/isloj-8/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">https://indoling.com/isloj/isloj-8/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:blue"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">ISMIL: </span><a href="https://indoling.com/ismil/ismil-24/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">https://indoling.com/ismil/ismil-24/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">SEALS: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/" style="color:blue">https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/</a><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>-----</div><div><b><font face="arial black, sans-serif">Dr. Thomas J. Conners</font></b></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Research Scientist<br></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">University of Maryland</font></div>
<div><a href="mailto:tconners@umd.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">tconners@umd.edu</font></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>