27.3280, Calls: Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, Madurese, Sasak, Bengkala Sign Language, Indonesian Sign Language, Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Documentation/USA

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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:48:38
From: Thomas Conners [tom.conners at gmail.com]
Subject: 6th International Symposium on the Languages of Java

 
Full Title: 6th International Symposium on the Languages of Java 
Short Title: ISLOJ 6 

Date: 18-May-2017 - 19-May-2017
Location: Semarang, USA 
Contact Person: Thomas Conners
Meeting Email: tom.conners at gmail.com
Web Site: http://jakarta.shh.mpg.de/isloj5.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Subject Language(s): Balinese (ban)
                     Bengkala Sign Language (bqy)
                     Indonesian Sign Language (inl)
                     Javanese (jav)
                     Madurese (mad)
                     Sasak (sas)
                     Sundanese (sun)

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

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, 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. 


Call for Papers:

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 and sign languages, 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: February 15, 2017 
Announcement of acceptance: March 1, 2017.

Co-organizers:

Thomas Conners, University of Maryland
William Davies, University of Iowa
Jozina Vander Klok, University of British Columbia, 

For more info:

ISLOJ: http://jakarta.shh.mpg.de/isloj5.php
ISMIL: http://ismil.shh.mpg.de/




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