Final Call for Abstracts: Languages of Java

[MPI EVA Jakarta Field Station]

Final Call for Abstracts
 
The First ISLOJ
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA
 
15-16 August 2007
Hotel Graha Santika, Semarang, Java, Indonesia
 
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Stuart Robson, Monash University
 
Java is home to several major languages.  Javanese‹spoken mainly in Central
and East Java‹ is the world¹s 10th or 11th largest language in number of
native speakers; has one of the oldest and fullest recorded histories of any
Austronesian language; and has the most fully articulated phenomenon of
speech levels of any language. 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.  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, and Madurese to come together
and share their findings.
 
Abstracts are invited for papers to be presented on any linguistic topics
dealing with the languages of Java: Javanese, Sundanese, and Madurese.
Papers on the related languages of Balinese and Sasak will also be
considered.  Papers on other languages will be judged according to their
relevance to the symposium topic.  Papers are welcome from any subfield of
linguistics and from 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 in electronic from (PDF or MSWord) to Thomas Conners at
the following address: oranghutan at cbn.net.id
 
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2007
 
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Please note that the 11th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian
Linguistics (ISMIL 11) will be held the week before ISLOJ, in Manokwari,
Indonesia.  For more info:
ISMIL: http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil
 
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Co-sponsors:
Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Yale University
 
Co-organizers:
J. Joseph Errington, Yale University
Bambang Kaswanti Purwo, Universitas Atma Jaya
Thomas Conners, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Uri Tadmor, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
 
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For more info:
ISLOJ: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj.php