Abstract Booklet Indonesian Languages and Linguistics: State of the Field 16-18 February 2020 Center for Language and Cultural Studies Atma Jaya Catholic University Jakarta 2020 PREFACE Indonesian Languages and Linguistics: State of the Field The linguistic landscape of Indonesia is rich and dynamic. Home to about 700 languages, roughly ten percent of the languages of the world, it offers a wonderful case study for language documentation, multilingualism, emerging new varieties, and, sadly, concerns about language endangerment. Remarkably, in a span of less than 100 years, Indonesian has emerged as a major world language spoken as a first or second language by some 260 million people. Standard Indonesian has been instantiated and developed as a national language, resulting in an increasing number of Indonesians reporting use of Indonesian as a primary language. Along the way, Indonesian has been in contact with hundreds of other languages of Indonesia (both Austronesian and non-Austronesian), colonial languages, as well as a range of other Malay and Malay-based varieties spoken as lingua francas throughout the archipelago. The outcomes of language contact across Indonesia are varied. In some instances, increased knowledge and use of Indonesian is implicated in a shift toward monolingualism and growing endangerment of the local languages of Indonesia, many of which are under- described and under-documented. At the same time, some language varieties are maintained, and yet new varieties (colloquial spoken varieties, regional koines, creoles, and pidgins) are emerging, shifting the multilingual landscape and the socio-indexical features of different language varieties. The study of linguistics in the Indonesian context is thus largely centered on the focal areas that emerge from the above: language documentation and description, language use in multilingual contexts, language endangerment and vitality, and emerging varieties of spoken Indonesian. Studying the languages of Indonesia in a multifaceted way provides not only critical insight into this rich linguistic landscape, it also offers an opportunity to inform the field of linguistics relevant to the understanding of language ecologies and broader trends in language change and use. We will use these four areas as focal points for the conference as we aim to understand the current state of the field and look to its future, exploring questions such as: Language documentation and description • What is the state of language documentation and description of the languages of Indonesia, including new varieties? • How does documentation contribute to language description and linguistic typology and vice versa? i • What are the best practices for documenting and describing the languages of Indonesia? o How can linguists best collaborate with native speakers and/or local communities in language documentation projects? How do our linguistic projects benefit local communities? o What do local communities need and expect from linguists when they collaborate in a documentation project? o How do we treat variation within the target language? Language use in multilingual contexts • How can we characterize the shifting multilingual landscape of Indonesia, both synchronically and diachronically? What is the relationship between language and identity in different communities in Indonesia? • What are the language ideologies in Indonesia associated with multilingualism and multilingual language use? • What are the roles of different languages in different contexts and for different social groups in Indonesia? Language endangerment and vitality • How should we think about language endangerment and shift in the context of Indonesia? • What are the factors that support the maintenance of local languages and what factors accelerate language shift? • How can we characterize language endangerment scenarios in Indonesia? • What models of language maintenance or revitalization do we have in Indonesia? Emerging varieties of spoken Indonesian • How can we provide much needed documentation of emerging spoken varieties? Are there shared features of emerging varieties that are unexpected cross-linguistically? • Are emerging varieties of spoken Indonesian stable? And what is the interaction between regional/emerging Indonesian varieties and established Malay, Malayic, and Malay-based varieties? • What is the role of a suprastratal language that has few to no native speakers? What role do new regional koines play in local language ecologies? ii We also hope to address a few broader questions including: • What are the role and the form of standard Indonesian today 90 years after standardization? • What are the particular challenges of doing linguistics in Indonesia? • In what way is the Indonesian situation comparable/unique cross- linguistically? ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Abigail C. Cohn (Cornell University) Yanti (Atma Jaya Catholic University) Thomas Conners (University of Maryland) Joseph Errington (Yale University) Maya Ravindranath Abtahian (University of Rochester) Asako Shiohara (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) iii PROGRAM Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch and Registration 13:00 – 13:10 Welcome: InLaLi Yohanes Eko Adi Prasetyanto, Director of LPPM 13:10 – 14:10 Opening Talk Bambang Kaswanti Purwo Playing with Words and Characters to Communicate in the Cyber World Chair: Abigail C. Cohn Panel: Documentation, Description, and Analysis Chair: Yanti 14:10 – 14:50 Sonja Riesberg Documenting and Describing the Languages of Eastern Indonesia – Past, Present, and Future 14:50 – 15:30 Jermy I. Balukh Language Documentation Data and Constructional- linguistic Change in East Nusa Tenggara 15:30 – 15:50 Break 15:50 – 16:30 Antonia Soriente Language Documentation in Indonesia: Directions, Approaches and Few Case Studies 16:30 – 16:50 Thomas Conners Discussant 16:50 – 17:20 Discussion iv Monday, February 17, 2020 Panel: Language Use in Multilingual Contexts Chair: Maya Abtahian 08:30 – 09:10 Kristian Tamtomo Learning (the Languages) to Labor in a Global Periphery: Youth Language Use in Vocational Secondary Schools in Central Java 09:10 – 9:50 Nick Palfreyman Sign Language Research in Indonesia: Past, Present and Future 9:50 – 10:20 Break 10:20 – 11:00 Bradley McDonnell Documenting Multilingualism in Southwest Sumatra 11:00 – 11:20 J. Joseph Errington Discussant 11:20 – 11:50 Discussion 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Parallel Sessions Chair: Luh Anik Mayani Chair: Katharina E. Sukamto 13:00 – 13:30 Karl Anderbeck, and Colleen Alena O’Brien Tessa Yuditha Voice Systems of Western Mapping Bornean Austronesia Languages: Languages Intelligibility Emerging Evidence from Indonesia 13:30 – 14:00 Russell Barlow - The State of the Field in Sulawesi: New Insights from the Suwawa Language Documentation Project 14:00 – 14:30 Joseph Lovestrand Yuta Sakon Languages of Sumba: State Ada Baiknya Construction of the Field in Indonesian v 14:30 – 15:00 Break Panel: Language Endangerment and Language Vitality Chair: Abigail C. Cohn 15:00 – 15:40 Multamia RMT Lauder and Allan F. Lauder Vitality and Revitalization of Minority Regional Languages in the East of Indonesia 15:40 – 16:20 Eri Kurniawan Documenting the Endangered Language of the Baduy Dalam: Is the Linguist-focused Model a Way to Go? 16:20 – 16:40 Break 16:40 – 16:50 Joseph Lovestrand Call to Action: Proposing an Endangered Language Fund for Indonesia 16:50 – 17:10 Marian Klamer Discussant 17:10 – 17:40 Discussion 17:40 Dinner Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Panel: Emerging Varieties of Spoken Indonesian Chair: J. Joseph Errington 09:00 – 09:40 Asako Shiohara and Yanti Capturing Emerging Indonesian Varieties using a Picture- task to Elicit Semi-spontaneous Narratives 09:40 – 10:20 Dwi Noverini Djenar Poetics and the Indonesian Language in the Public Sphere 10:20 – 10:50 Break 10:50 – 11:10 Michael Ewing Discussant vi 11:10 – 11:40 Discussion 11:40 – 12:40 Lunch Parallel Sessions Chair: Bernadette Chair: Ika Nurhayani Kushartanti 12:40 – 13:10 Misriani Balle Dalan Peranginangin Models of Language On the Necessity of Maintenance or Escaping Eurocentrism Revitalization in Sumba and Broadening Perspectives: The Documentation of Pagu as a Case in Point 13:10 – 13:40 Khairunnisa and Bradley David Gil, Jad Kadan, McDonnell and Yeshayahu Shen Documenting Interaction Exploring Sociolinguistic and Variation in Ampenan Variation: Metaphor Sasak Comprehension in the Languages of Indonesia 13:40 – 14:10 Jacob Hakim, Bradley Okki Kurniawan McDonnell, and Yanti Social Dimensions and The Resilience and Variation in Jakarta Endangerment of Nasal: A Indonesian: The Case of Unique Language Situation the Verbal Prefix N- in Western Indonesia 14:10 – 14:40 Misnadin Misnadin Renhard Saupia The Realisation of the Why is Leti Shifting? Three-way Laryngeal Contrast in Madurese Stops: Do Age and Dialect Matter? 14:40 – 15:10 David Gil Final Discussant Chair: Thomas Conners 15:10 – 15:30 Closing Remarks vii List of Abstracts Anderbeck, Karl and Mapping Bornean Languages Intelligibility 1 Tessa Yuditha Balle, Misriani Models of Language Maintenance or 2 Revitalization in Sumba Balukh, Jermy I. Language Documentation Data and 4 Constructional-Linguistic Change in East Nusa Tenggara Barlow, Russell The State of the Field in Sulawesi: New 6 Insights from the Suwawa Language Documentation Project Djenar, Dwi Noverini Poetics and the Indonesian Language in the 7 Public Sphere Gil, David, Jad Kadan, Exploring Sociolinguistic Variation 9 and Yeshayahu Shen Metaphor Comprehension in the Languages of Indonesia