Second Call: Languages of Java

[Uri Tadmor]

Second 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 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.  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
 
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2009
 
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Please note that the 13th 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
 
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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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