CFP: International Symposium on the Languages of Java May 30-31, 2013

[Doug Cooper]

Short Title: 	ISLOJ 4
Location: 	Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia
Start Date: 	30-May-2013 - 31-May-2013
Contact: 	Thomas Connors <tconners at UMD.EDU>
Meeting URL: 	http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj4.php
Meeting Description: 	The 4th ISLOJ
International Symposium on the Languages of Java May 30-31, 2013
Bung Hatta University
Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia

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.

Please note that the 17th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian 
Linguistics (ISMIL 15) will be held immediately following ISLOJ, also in 
Padang, on 1-2 June, 2013. For more information see:

http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/17

Co-sponsors:

Universitas Bung Hatta, Padang
University of Maryland
Universitas Katolik Atma Jaya
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Co-organizers:

Zane Goebel, La Trobe University
Thomas Conners, University of Maryland
Yacinta Kurniasih, Monash University
Effendi Kadarisman, Universitas Negri Malang

For more information:

ISLOJ: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj4.php

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