Minority Languages in the Malay/Indonesian Speaking World: 1st Call for Abstracts

[Malcolm Ross]

First Call for Abstracts

International Workshop on Minority Languages in the Malay/Indonesian  
Speaking World

28 June 2008
Leiden, The Netherlands
URL http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gil/minlang

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Many speakers of Malay or Indonesian are bilinguals who are also  
fluent in a regional or local language. These languages may be  
considered ‘minority’ languages in the sense that they are not spoken  
nationwide. Many of these languages are endangered.

The Workshop on the Minority languages in the Malay/Indonesian  
speaking world invites papers concerned with minority languages that  
are spoken in Malay/Indonesian speaking countries (Malaysia,  
Indonesia, Brunei, southern Thailand). These languages may be  
Austronesian, belong to a Papuan family, or be Austroasiatic.  
Submissions relating to the minority languages of East Timor are also  
invited because  of their geographical location.

Papers may be in any of the subfields of linguistics, and may  
represent variegated approaches and diverse theoretical persuasions.  
Presentations at the Workshop on the Minority languages are to be  
delivered in English.

Persons wishing to present a paper at the workshop are invited to  
submit a one-page abstract in electronic form (preferably pdf, but  
MsWord is also acceptable) to Marian Klamer at the following address:

marian.klamer at let.leidenuniv.nl
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 March 2008.
Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2008.

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This workshop immediately follows the 12th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON  
MALAY/INDONESIAN LINGUISTICS (ISMIL12), 26-27 June 2008, Leiden, The  
Netherlands.

Papers presented at ISMIL are concerned with the Malay/Indonesian  
language in any of its varieties. In addition to the standardized  
versions of Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia, papers are  
particularly welcome dealing with non-canonical isolects such as  
regional dialects of Malay and Indonesian, contact varieties, and  
other closely related Malayic languages. URL http://email.eva.mpg.de/ 
~gil/ismil/

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Co-sponsors:
Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL), Alor and Pantar  
Project (AAPP) at Leiden University, International Institute for  
Asian Studies (IIAS), Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya,  
University of Delaware, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary  
Anthropology.

Co-organizers:
Marian Klamer, Universiteit Leiden
Peter Cole, University of Delaware
David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Uri Tadmor, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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