Final call: 4th Int'l Symposium on the Lgs of Java, 6-7 June, Padang, Indonesia

[David Gil]

*The Fourth ISLOJ**
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA*

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FINAL Call for Papers
6-7 June 2013
Bung Hatta University
Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia

*The island of Java*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.

*Abstracts*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.

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: <tconners AT umd.edu>

*Deadline*for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2013

*Announcement*of acceptance: March 15, 2013.

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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: 
http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/17 <http://www.eva.mpg.de/%7Egil/ismil/17>

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Co-sponsors:

Universitas Bung Hatta, Padang

University of Maryland

Universitas Katolik Atma Jaya

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Co-organizers:

Zane Goebel, La Trobe University

Thomas Conners, University of Maryland

Yacinta Kurniasih, Monash University

Effendi Kadarisman, Universitas Negri Malang

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*For more info see*:
ISLOJ: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj4.php


-- 
David Gil

Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

Telephone: 49-341-3550321 Fax: 49-341-3550119
Email: gil at eva.mpg.de
Webpage:  http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/


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