<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">First Call for Abstracts</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Twenty-Eighth</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MALAY/INDONESIAN LINGUISTICS</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(ISMIL 28)</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">9-10 June 2025</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">***</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Papers presented at ISMIL are concerned with the Malay/Indonesian </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">language in any of its varieties. In addition to the standardized </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">versions of Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia, papers are particularly </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">welcome dealing with non-canonical isolects such as regional dialects of </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Malay and Indonesian, contact varieties, and other closely related </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Malayic languages. Papers may be in any of the subfields of linguistics, </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and may represent variegated approaches and diverse theoretical </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">persuasions. Presentations at ISMIL are delivered in English.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">***</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Persons wishing to present a paper at the symposium are invited to </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">submit a one-page abstract in electronic form (preferably pdf, but </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">MsWord also acceptable) to David Gil at the following address:</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">dapiiiiit AT <a href="http://gmail.com/">gmail.com</a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 February 2025</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Notification: 15 March 2025</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">***</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ISMIL28 is part of a series of four related conferences which will be held</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">in geographical and temporal proximity, encouraging participation in </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">multiple events:</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">2-4 June, AFLA, Jakarta</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">4-5 June, ISLOJ, Jakarta</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">9-10 June, ISMIL, Bali</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">11-13 June, SEALS, Bali</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">***</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Co-organizers:</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Thomas Conners, University of Maryland</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Bradley McDonnell, University of Hawai'i at Manoa</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Peter Slomanson, University of Tampere</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Hooi Ling Soh, University of Minnesota</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Carly Sommerlot, National University of Singapore</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">***</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; 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