[Sealang-l] ISLOJ 8

Thu Oct 31 21:36:33 UTC 2019

Call for Abstracts

The Eighth
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA
Call for Papers 14-15 May 2020
University of Hawai’i, Mānoa
Honolulu, Hawai’i
The island of Java is home to several major world languages.
Javanese—spoken mainly in Central and
East Java— is among the world’s most widely spoken languages 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 its unique speech level
 system.   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 up to
13 million speakers. Geography, history, and typology  bind  these
 languages  with  linguistically
 related  languages  on  the  neighboring islands to the east, Bali, where
Balinese is spoken, and
Lombok, where Sasak is spoken, each by about 3 million speakers.
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, Sasak, or any non-Malay language spoken on
these islands, 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.

Instructions. Anonymous abstracts of one-page [data and references may be
on a second page] should
be submitted in electronic form (PDF and MSWord) to <isloj.linguistics AT
gmail.com>. Please
indicate your name, affiliation, and title of abstract in the body of the
email.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 12 Noon ET (GMT + 5) February 14, 2020
Announcement of acceptance: March 1, 2020.
Given the potential difficulty in obtaining a US visa, abstracts from
presenters who need to obtain
a visa may be submitted at any time prior to the deadline, and a
determination will be made within
two weeks of submission.

***
Special Joint ISLOJ/ISMIL Session on m/Minimalism in ISMIL/ISLOJ Languages
Different  varieties  of
 Indonesian,  Javanese  and  other  ISLOJ/ISMIL  languages  have  been
described   as  conforming
to  the   general  Western-Malayo  Polynesian   (Indonesian-type

language)   typological   pattern   characterized   by   moderately
agglutinating   morphology,
symmetric voice systems, and fixed SVO word order. Alternatively, they have
been described as
languages with free word order, more isolating morphology, and no or few
lexical category
distinctions—typologically  more  like  mainland  SEA  languages.  Part  of
 this  discrepancy
arises from the difference between standard and non-standard varieties.
Malay is a macro- language
that encompasses a range of native Malay varieties spoken in and around the
Malay Peninsula,
Sumatra, and Borneo; other varieties are based on a lingua franca Malay
spoken throughout  the
Indonesian  archipelago;  modern  colloquial  Indonesian  varieties;  and
 the highly  structured
and  standardized  Indonesian.  Javanese,  by  contrast,  has  many
 regional varieties,  but  its
standard  variety  is  based  on  a  prestige  variety  spoken  in  the
 region  of traditional
political and cultural power. The existence of this range of varieties has
led to much research
around  the  question of how minimalist  ISMIL/ISLOJ  languages are  from a
typological
perspective,  especially  the  non-standard  varieties  (inter  alia  Gil
 2001,  2005, 2013, 2015;
Conners, Bowden, and Gil 2015; Jackendoff and Wittenberg 2014; Enfield
2017; Polinsky and Potsdam
In Press) Not only are these varieties relevant for a cross-linguistic
understanding and accounts
of language complexity, the typological profile of ISMIL/ISLOJ varieties
also raises challenges for
how best to account in various theoretical frameworks, such  as  in
 Minimalism  (Chomsky  1995,
ff).  This  special  joint  ISMIL/ISLOJ  session  invites papers to address
these issues
surrounding minimalism and/or Minimalism in light of any of the following
questions:
•    How complex are ISMIL/ISLOJ languages cross-linguistically, compared
to other Austronesian
languages, standard vs. non-standard varieties, between isolects/dialects?
•    How can various theoretical frameworks account for phenomena in
ISMIL/ISLOJ languages –
particularly more functional (e.g., usage-based, constructionist
approaches) or generative
frameworks  (e.g., the Minimalist program)?
•     How do ISMIL/ISLOJ languages inform various theoretical frameworks,
both typologically and
formally?

m/Minimalism Keynote speakers:
Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) Nick Enfield (University of Sydney)
Eva Wittenburg (University of California, San Diego)

Special Joint ISLOJ/ISMIL Plenary speaker:
Dwi Novi Djenar (University of Sydney)

***
Please note that the 24th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian
Linguistics (ISMIL
24) will be held adjacent to ISLOJ 8, on 15-16 May, 2020; and Southeast
Asian Linguistics Society
(SEALS 30) will be held 18-21 May, 2020.  All three conferences will take
place at the University
of Hawai‘i, Mānoa.
***
Co-sponsors:
University of Maryland

University of Oslo
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
National Science Foundation
Co-organizers:
Thomas Conners, University of Maryland Jozina Vander Klok, University of
Oslo
Bradley McDonnell, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

***
For more info:
ISLOJ: https://indoling.com/isloj/isloj-8/
ISMIL: https://indoling.com/ismil/ismil-24/
SEALS: https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/seals-2020
Southeast Asian Events at UH:
https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/home
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*Dr. Thomas J. Conners*
Research Scientist
University of Maryland
tconners at umd.edu

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