Conference: Support for Three Professional Meetings on Southeast Asian Linguistics; Honolulu, HI - May 2020

东南亚的语言，包括马来西亚和印度尼西亚，为语言学领域提供了许多关于人类语言本质的重要科学发现。然而，近年来，学习和分享当前东南亚语言研究的场所在美国已经很少了。因此，该项目旨在汇集学者，在2020年5月在夏威夷大学马诺阿分校举行的前所未有的为期一周的活动中，展示当前对东南亚语言的研究。这个为期一周的活动包括三个传统上没有在一起举行的东南亚语言专业会议——东南亚语言学学会（SEALS）、马来-印度尼西亚语言学国际研讨会（ISMIL）和Java语言国际研讨会（ISLOJ）——以及一系列关于语言学几个子学科前沿话题的特别大师班。这三次会议中规模最大的一次，被国际公认为传播东南亚语言学研究的最重要会议。ISMIL和ISLOJ是印度尼西亚西部两个语言上重要但研究不足的地区的重要场所。因此，通过将这些以前不同的会议聚集在一起，这个项目有望促进志同道合的学者之间的交流和合作，否则他们可能不会互动。特别系列的大师班利用夏威夷大学马诺阿分校在实验、理论和文献语言学方面的专业知识，为来自美国和东南亚各国的学生和学者提供重要的教育机会，有望促进人类语言科学研究的进步。美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）提供的资金将用于增加这个为期一周的东南亚语言活动参与者的多样性，向美国学生以及来自东南亚的学生和学者提供资金，否则这些学生和学者将无法前往美国。扩大对这个为期一周的活动的参与有可能在建立新的合作和创造语言学研究的新线索方面具有变革性。大师班将在语言学的几个分支学科的前沿研究方法和当前主题上提供基础和高级水平的重要培训。这些研讨会将针对来自东南亚的学生和学者，因为他们有可能对东南亚语言的语言研究的未来产生重大影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The languages of Southeast Asia, including Malaysia and Indonesia, have provided the field of linguistics with numerous important scientific discoveries regarding the nature of human language. However, in recent years, venues for learning about and sharing current research on Southeast Asia languages have been vanishingly rare within the United States. Thus, this project aims to bring together scholars to present current research focused on Southeast Asian languages for an unprecedented week-long event in May 2020 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. This week-long event comprises three professional meetings on the languages of Southeast Asia that have not traditionally been held together---the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS), the International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL), and the International Symposium on the Language of Java (ISLOJ)---alongside a special series of master classes on cutting-edge topics in several sub-disciplines in linguistics. SEALS, the largest of the three meetings, is internationally-recognized as the foremost conference for disseminating research on Southeast Asian linguistics. ISMIL and ISLOJ are important venues for two linguistically important yet sorely under-researched areas of western Indonesia. Thus, by bringing together these previously disparate meetings, this project promises to foster communication and collaboration between like-minded scholars who may not otherwise interact. The special series of master classes leverages specializations of faculty at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in experimental, theoretical and documentary linguistics, offering students and scholars from the US and various Southeast Asian countries important educational opportunities that promise to promote the progress of the scientific study of human language.The funding from the National Science Foundation will be used to increase the diversity of participants at this week-long event on Southeast Asian languages by offering funding to US students as well as students and scholars from Southeast Asia who would not otherwise be able to travel to the United States. Broadening participation in this week-long event has the potential to be transformative in forging new collaborations and creating new threads of linguistics research. The master classes will provide important training at basic and advanced levels on cutting-edge research methodologies and current topics in several sub-disciplines of linguistics. These workshops will be targeted at students and scholars from Southeast Asia because of their potential to make a significant impact on the future of linguistic research on the languages of Southeast Asia.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.