2nd call: 2nd Int'l Symp on the Languages of Java

[David Gil]

Second Call for Abstracts

ISLOJ 2
The Second
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA

4-5 June 2009
Senggigi, Lombok, Indonesia

Keynote Speakers: Thomas Hunter, Husni Muadz

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 abstract [data and references may be on a second page] 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 at the same location, immediately 
following ISLOJ, 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, Leipzig
Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, Jakarta

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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David Gil

Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

Telephone: 49-341-3550321 Fax: 49-341-3550119
Email: gil at eva.mpg.de
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