Minority languages in Malay/Indonesian speaking world: 2nd Call for abstracts

[Doug Cooper]

(Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 March 2008)

Second call for Abstracts
International Workshop on Minority Languages in the Malay/Indonesian Speaking 
World
28 June 2008
Leiden, The Netherlands
URL http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gil/minlang

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Many speakers of Malay or Indonesian are bilinguals who are also fluent in a 
regional or local language. These languages may be considered ‘minority’ 
languages in the sense that they are not spoken nationwide. Many of these 
languages are endangered.

The Workshop on the Minority languages in the Malay/Indonesian speaking world 
invites papers concerned with minority languages that are spoken in 
Malay/Indonesian speaking countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, southern 
Thailand). These languages may be Austronesian, belong to a Papuan family, or 
be Austroasiatic. Submissions relating to the minority languages of East Timor 
are also invited because  of their geographical location.

Papers may be in any of the subfields of linguistics, and may represent 
variegated approaches and diverse theoretical persuasions. Presentations at 
the Workshop on the Minority languages are to be delivered in English.

Persons wishing to present a paper at the workshop are invited to submit a 
one-page abstract in electronic form (preferably pdf, but MsWord is also 
acceptable) to Marian Klamer at the following address:

Marian.Klamer at let.leidenuniv.nl
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 March 2008.
Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2008.
This workshop immediately follows the 12th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON 
MALAY/INDONESIAN LINGUISTICS (ISMIL12), 26-27 June 2008, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Papers presented at ISMIL are concerned with the Malay/Indonesian language in 
any of its varieties. In addition to the standardized versions of Bahasa 
Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia, papers are particularly welcome dealing with 
non-canonical isolects such as regional dialects of Malay and Indonesian, 
contact varieties, and other closely related Malayic languages.
URL http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/

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Co-sponsors:
Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL), Alor and Pantar Project 
(AAPP) at Leiden University, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), 
Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, University of Delaware, Max Planck 
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Co-organizers:
Marian Klamer, Universiteit Leiden
Peter Cole, University of Delaware
David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Uri Tadmor, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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