[Sealang-l] ISLOJ 5 Second Call for Papers - Languages of Java

[Doug Cooper]

The Fifth ISLOJ INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2015
Announcement of acceptance: March 15, 2015.
					
6-7 June 2015
UniversitasPendidikan Indonesia
Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
ISLOJ: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj5.php
http://www.upi.edu/
http://www.upi.edu/en/

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, in 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
University of Iowa
UniversitasKatolikAtma Jaya
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Co-organizers:
Thomas Conners, University of Maryland
William Davies, University of Iowa
EriKurniawan, UniversitasPendidikan 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/