[Sealang-l] International Symposium on the Languages of Java 9

[Thomas Conners]

International Symposium on the Languages of Java 9
University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
21 - 22 May 2023

Final Call for Papers

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.

The keynote speaker for both the ISMIL and ISLOJ conferences will be Dwi
Noverini Djenar of the University of Sydney. There will also be a special
joint session on m/Minimalism in ISMIL/ISLOJ Languages featuring keynote
speakers Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland, College Park) and Eva
Wittenberg (Central European University).

*Thanks to support from the National Science Foundation (BCS#1921334), we
will be able to offer some travel funding for students as well as scholars
from developing countries.*

Anonymous one-page abstracts (data and references may be on a second page)
should be submitted in electronic form (PDF and MSWord) to the following
address:

*isloj.linguistics AT gmail.com <http://gmail.com>*

Please indicate your name, affiliation, and title of abstract in the body
of the email. Please also indicate if you would like to participate in the
special session on m/Minimalism.

Extended Deadline for submission of abstracts: *31 January 2023*

Notification: 28 February 2023

https://indoling.com/isloj/isloj-9/

Please note that the 26th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian
Linguistics (ISMIL 26) will be held adjacent to ISLOJ 9, on 18-19 May,
2023. Both conferences will take place at the University of Hawai‘i,
Mānoa.
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*Dr. Thomas J. Conners*
tconners at umd.edu
tom.conners at gmail.com
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