Upcoming ISLOJ Conference, Final Call for Papers

[Thomas J Conners]

Final Call for Abstracts

 

ISLOJ 2

The Second

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA

 

4-5 June 2009

Sheraton Senggigi Beach Resort, Senggigi, Lombok, Indonesia

 

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Thomas Hunter: The interaction of irrealis with the symmetrical 
voice system of                                            Old Javanese.

Dr. Husni Muadz, Universitas Negri Mataram: A topic on Sasak TBA

 

The island of Java is home to several major languages.  
Javanese---spoken mainly in Central and East Java--- is the world's 
10^th or 11^th 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.  Given the location of the 
conference, papers on Sasak are especially encouraged.  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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Persons wishing to present papers at the symposium are invited to submit 
a one-page [data and references may be on a second page] abstract in 
electronic form (PDF AND MSWord) to Thomas Conners at the following 
address: oranghutan at cbn.net.id <mailto:oranghutan at cbn.net.id>

 

Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2009

 

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Please note that the 13^th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian 
Linguistics (ISMIL 13) will be held immediately following ISLOJ, also at 
the Sheraton Senggigi Beach Resort, on 6-7 June, 2009.  For more 
information see:

 

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

 

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Co-sponsors:

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya

 

 

Co-organizers:

Thomas Conners, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

J. Joseph Errington, Yale University

Zane Goebel, Nagoya University

Effendi Kadarisman, Universitas Negri Malang

Yacinta Kurniasih, Monash University

 

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For more information see:

http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj2.php

 


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