ISLOJ 3 Final Call for Papers

[Thomas J. Conners]

Final Call for Abstracts

***Note New Deadline for Abstract Submission

The Third ISLOJ
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA

23-24 June 2011
State Islamic University of Malang
Malang, East Java, Indonesia

Keynote Speaker:
	Professor Dr. Aminudin Aziz
Head of the Indonesian National Language Board
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. 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: <tconners AT umd.edu>
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 15, 2011
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Please note that the 15th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian  
Linguistics (ISMIL 15) will be held immediately following ISLOJ, at  
the Tugu Hotel, also in Malang, on 25-26 June, 2011.  For more  
information see:
http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/15
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Co-sponsors:
Universitas Negri Malang
Universitas Islam Negri Malang
Universitas Katolik Atma Jaya
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Co-organizers:
J. Joseph Errington, Yale University
Zane Goebel, La Trobe University
Thomas Conners, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Yacinta Kurniasih, Monash University
Effendi Kadarisman, Universitas Negri Malang
Meinarni Susilowati, Universitas Islam Malang
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For more info:
ISLOJ: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj3.php

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