[Sealang-l] ISLOJ 8 Second Call for Papers

Tue Jan 14 14:41:05 UTC 2020

*The Eighth *

*INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGES OF JAVA*

Second 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

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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/

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