First Call: 2nd Int'l Symposium on the Languages of Java

[David Gil]

First 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

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Keynote Speakers:

Thomas Hunter
The interaction of irrealis with the symmetrical voice system of Old
Javanese

Husni Muadz
TBA [Sasak]

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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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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
Webpage:  http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/