Call: 5th ISLOJ -- INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA

[Doug Cooper]

The Fifth ISLOJ
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA

When: 6-7 June 2015
Where: Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
Website: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj5.php
Abstracts: one-page [data and references may be on a second page]
Format: PDF AND MSWord
Submit to: Thomas Conners <tconners AT umd.edu>
Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2015
Announcement of acceptance: March 15, 2015.

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—is the third largest local language, with counts ranging from 7 to 
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.

The Keynote Address will be delivered by Professor Dr. Bernd Nothofer, 
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

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.

Abstracts of one-page [data and references may be on a second page] should be 
submitted in electronic form (PDF AND MSWord) to Thomas Conners at the 
following address: <tconners AT umd.edu>
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2015
Announcement of acceptance: March 15, 2015.
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Please note that the 19th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian 
Linguistics (ISMIL 19) will be held following ISLOJ, at Jambi University, 
Jambi City, on 12-14 June, 2015.  For more information see: 
http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/19
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Co-sponsors:
UniversitasPendidikan Indonesia
University of Maryland
UniversitasKatolikAtma Jaya
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Co-organizers:
Thomas Conners, University of Maryland
William Davies, University of Iowa
Eri Kurniawan, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Jozina Vander Klok, University of British Columbia, Max Planck Institute for 
Evolutionary Anthropology
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For more info:
ISLOJ: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj5.php
http://www.upi.edu/
http://www.upi.edu/en/

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