<div dir="ltr"><div>Call for Abstracts </div><div><br></div>The Eighth<br>INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA<br>Call for Papers 14-15 May 2020<br>University of Hawai’i, Mānoa<br>Honolulu, Hawai’i<br>The island of Java is home to several major world languages. Javanese—spoken mainly in Central and <br>East Java— is among the world’s most widely spoken languages in number of native speakers. It has <br>one of the oldest and fullest recorded histories of any Austronesian language. It also has been of <br>considerable interest to scholars because of its unique speech level system. Sundanese—spoken <br>in West Java— has over 27 million speakers, and Madurese—spoken on the neighboring <br>island of Madura and throughout parts of East Java— is the third largest local language, with up to <br>13 million speakers. Geography, history, and typology bind these languages with linguistically <br> related languages on the neighboring islands to the east, Bali, where Balinese is spoken, and <br>Lombok, where Sasak is spoken, each by about 3 million speakers.<br>Each of these languages displays a range of dialects, isolects, continua, and contact varieties <br>and yet they have received relatively little attention from linguists. With this <br>symposium, we offer an opportunity for scholars working on any aspect of Javanese, <br>Sundanese, Madurese, Balinese, Sasak, or any non-Malay language spoken on these islands, to come <br>together and share their findings. We aim to encourage and promote continued research on <br>these important and unique languages.<br><br>Abstracts are invited for papers to be presented on any linguistic topics dealing with the <br>languages of Java and its environs—Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Balinese, and Sasak. <br>Papers on other languages will be judged according to their relevance to the symposium <br>topic. Papers are welcome from any subfield of linguistics and using any approach or <br>theoretical background. Studies of non-standard(ized) versions, dialects, and isolects, <br>including contact varieties, are particularly welcome. All papers are to be presented <br>in English.<br><br>Instructions. Anonymous abstracts of one-page [data and references may be on a second page] should <br>be submitted in electronic form (PDF and MSWord) to <isloj.linguistics AT <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>>. Please <br>indicate your name, affiliation, and title of abstract in the body of the email.<br><br>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 12 Noon ET (GMT + 5) February 14, 2020<br>Announcement of acceptance: March 1, 2020.<br>Given the potential difficulty in obtaining a US visa, abstracts from presenters who need to obtain <br>a visa may be submitted at any time prior to the deadline, and a determination will be made within <br>two weeks of submission.<br><br>***<br>Special Joint ISLOJ/ISMIL Session on m/Minimalism in ISMIL/ISLOJ Languages Different varieties of <br> Indonesian, Javanese and other ISLOJ/ISMIL languages have been described as conforming <br>to the general Western-Malayo Polynesian (Indonesian-type<br><br><br>language) typological pattern characterized by moderately agglutinating morphology, <br>symmetric voice systems, and fixed SVO word order. Alternatively, they have been described as <br>languages with free word order, more isolating morphology, and no or few lexical category <br>distinctions—typologically more like mainland SEA languages. Part of this discrepancy <br>arises from the difference between standard and non-standard varieties. Malay is a macro- language <br>that encompasses a range of native Malay varieties spoken in and around the Malay Peninsula, <br>Sumatra, and Borneo; other varieties are based on a lingua franca Malay spoken throughout the <br>Indonesian archipelago; modern colloquial Indonesian varieties; and the highly structured <br>and standardized Indonesian. Javanese, by contrast, has many regional varieties, but its <br>standard variety is based on a prestige variety spoken in the region of traditional <br>political and cultural power. The existence of this range of varieties has led to much research <br>around the question of how minimalist ISMIL/ISLOJ languages are from a typological <br>perspective, especially the non-standard varieties (inter alia Gil 2001, 2005, 2013, 2015; <br>Conners, Bowden, and Gil 2015; Jackendoff and Wittenberg 2014; Enfield 2017; Polinsky and Potsdam <br>In Press) Not only are these varieties relevant for a cross-linguistic understanding and accounts <br>of language complexity, the typological profile of ISMIL/ISLOJ varieties also raises challenges for <br>how best to account in various theoretical frameworks, such as in Minimalism (Chomsky 1995, <br>ff). This special joint ISMIL/ISLOJ session invites papers to address these issues <br>surrounding minimalism and/or Minimalism in light of any of the following questions:<br>• How complex are ISMIL/ISLOJ languages cross-linguistically, compared to other Austronesian <br>languages, standard vs. non-standard varieties, between isolects/dialects?<br>• How can various theoretical frameworks account for phenomena in ISMIL/ISLOJ languages – <br>particularly more functional (e.g., usage-based, constructionist approaches) or generative <br>frameworks (e.g., the Minimalist program)?<br>• How do ISMIL/ISLOJ languages inform various theoretical frameworks, both typologically and <br>formally?<br><br>m/Minimalism Keynote speakers:<br>Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) Nick Enfield (University of Sydney)<br>Eva Wittenburg (University of California, San Diego)<br><br>Special Joint ISLOJ/ISMIL Plenary speaker:<br>Dwi Novi Djenar (University of Sydney)<br><br>***<br>Please note that the 24th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL<br>24) will be held adjacent to ISLOJ 8, on 15-16 May, 2020; and Southeast Asian Linguistics Society <br>(SEALS 30) will be held 18-21 May, 2020. All three conferences will take place at the University <br>of Hawai‘i, Mānoa.<br>***<br>Co-sponsors:<br>University of Maryland<br><br>University of Oslo<br>University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa<br>National Science Foundation<br>Co-organizers:<br>Thomas Conners, University of Maryland Jozina Vander Klok, University of Oslo<br>Bradley McDonnell, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa<br><br>***<br>For more info:<br>ISLOJ: <a href="https://indoling.com/isloj/isloj-8/">https://indoling.com/isloj/isloj-8/</a><br>ISMIL: <a href="https://indoling.com/ismil/ismil-24/">https://indoling.com/ismil/ismil-24/</a><br>SEALS: <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/seals-2020">https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/seals-2020</a><br>Southeast Asian Events at UH: <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/home">https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/home</a><br><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><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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