Call for Papers ISLOJ: The Third International Symposium On The Languages Of Java

[Doug Cooper]

Third International Symposium on the Languages of Java
State Islamic University of Malang, East Java, Indonesia
23-24 June 2011.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2011
Contact: Thomas Conners <oranghutan AT cbn.net.id <http://cbn.net.id>>
Conference website:  http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj3.php

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: http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/15



*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 <http://cbn.net.id>>

*Deadline* for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2011




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