[An-lang] Fwd: ISLOJ 8
Tom Conners
tom.conners at gmail.com
Thu Oct 31 21:38:08 UTC 2019
Call for Abstracts
The Eighth
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA
Call for Papers 14-15 May 2020
University of Hawai’i, Mānoa
Honolulu, Hawai’i
The island of Java is home to several major world languages.
Javanese—spoken mainly in Central and
East Java— is among the world’s most widely spoken languages 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 its unique speech level
system. 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 up to
13 million speakers. Geography, history, and typology bind these
languages with linguistically
related languages on the neighboring islands to the east, Bali, where
Balinese is spoken, and
Lombok, where Sasak is spoken, each by about 3 million speakers.
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, Sasak, or any non-Malay language spoken on
these islands, 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.
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.
Instructions. Anonymous abstracts of one-page [data and references may be
on a second page] should
be submitted in electronic form (PDF and MSWord) to <isloj.linguistics AT
gmail.com>. Please
indicate your name, affiliation, and title of abstract in the body of the
email.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 12 Noon ET (GMT + 5) February 14, 2020
Announcement of acceptance: March 1, 2020.
Given the potential difficulty in obtaining a US visa, abstracts from
presenters who need to obtain
a visa may be submitted at any time prior to the deadline, and a
determination will be made within
two weeks of submission.
***
Special Joint ISLOJ/ISMIL Session on m/Minimalism in ISMIL/ISLOJ Languages
Different varieties of
Indonesian, Javanese and other ISLOJ/ISMIL languages have been
described as conforming
to the general Western-Malayo Polynesian (Indonesian-type
language) typological pattern characterized by moderately
agglutinating morphology,
symmetric voice systems, and fixed SVO word order. Alternatively, they have
been described as
languages with free word order, more isolating morphology, and no or few
lexical category
distinctions—typologically more like mainland SEA languages. Part of
this discrepancy
arises from the difference between standard and non-standard varieties.
Malay is a macro- language
that encompasses a range of native Malay varieties spoken in and around the
Malay Peninsula,
Sumatra, and Borneo; other varieties are based on a lingua franca Malay
spoken throughout the
Indonesian archipelago; modern colloquial Indonesian varieties; and
the highly structured
and standardized Indonesian. Javanese, by contrast, has many
regional varieties, but its
standard variety is based on a prestige variety spoken in the
region of traditional
political and cultural power. The existence of this range of varieties has
led to much research
around the question of how minimalist ISMIL/ISLOJ languages are from a
typological
perspective, especially the non-standard varieties (inter alia Gil
2001, 2005, 2013, 2015;
Conners, Bowden, and Gil 2015; Jackendoff and Wittenberg 2014; Enfield
2017; Polinsky and Potsdam
In Press) Not only are these varieties relevant for a cross-linguistic
understanding and accounts
of language complexity, the typological profile of ISMIL/ISLOJ varieties
also raises challenges for
how best to account in various theoretical frameworks, such as in
Minimalism (Chomsky 1995,
ff). This special joint ISMIL/ISLOJ session invites papers to address
these issues
surrounding minimalism and/or Minimalism in light of any of the following
questions:
• How complex are ISMIL/ISLOJ languages cross-linguistically, compared
to other Austronesian
languages, standard vs. non-standard varieties, between isolects/dialects?
• How can various theoretical frameworks account for phenomena in
ISMIL/ISLOJ languages –
particularly more functional (e.g., usage-based, constructionist
approaches) or generative
frameworks (e.g., the Minimalist program)?
• How do ISMIL/ISLOJ languages inform various theoretical frameworks,
both typologically and
formally?
m/Minimalism Keynote speakers:
Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) Nick Enfield (University of Sydney)
Eva Wittenburg (University of California, San Diego)
Special Joint ISLOJ/ISMIL Plenary speaker:
Dwi Novi Djenar (University of Sydney)
***
Please note that the 24th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian
Linguistics (ISMIL
24) will be held adjacent to ISLOJ 8, on 15-16 May, 2020; and Southeast
Asian Linguistics Society
(SEALS 30) will be held 18-21 May, 2020. All three conferences will take
place at the University
of Hawai‘i, Mānoa.
***
Co-sponsors:
University of Maryland
University of Oslo
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
National Science Foundation
Co-organizers:
Thomas Conners, University of Maryland Jozina Vander Klok, University of
Oslo
Bradley McDonnell, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
***
For more info:
ISLOJ: https://indoling.com/isloj/isloj-8/
ISMIL: https://indoling.com/ismil/ismil-24/
SEALS: https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/seals-2020
Southeast Asian Events at UH:
https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/home
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*Dr. Thomas J. Conners*
Research Scientist
University of Maryland
tconners at umd.edu
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