First Call for Abstracts The Twenty-Fifth INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MALAY/INDONESIAN LINGUISTICS (ISMIL 25) 6-8 August 2022 Tokyo/Online *** Papers presented at ISMIL are concerned with the Malay/Indonesian language in any of its varieties. In addition to the standardized versions of Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia, papers are particularly welcome dealing with non-canonical isolects such as regional dialects of Malay and Indonesian, contact varieties, and other closely related Malayic languages. Papers may be in any of the subfields of linguistics, and may represent variegated approaches and diverse theoretical persuasions. Presentations at ISMIL are delivered in English. *** Persons wishing to present a paper at the symposium are invited to submit a one-page abstract in electronic form (preferably pdf, but MsWord also acceptable) to David Gil at the following address: gil AT shh.mpg.de Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 May 2022 Notification: 1 June 2022 [Early submissions also possible; notifications will be made within two weeks of receipt of submission.] *** Medium: Hybrid for participants from Japan, and countries whose governments ban zoom; online for all other participants *** A Special Session will focus on Malay/Indonesian and other languages. We encourage submissions on studies comparing Malay/Indonesian and other languages from various perspectives. Possible topics include contact between Malay/Indonesian and other languages, contrastive study of the grammars of Malay/Indonesian and other languages, influence of other languages found in foreign speakers of Malay/Indonesian, comparison of socio-political situations surrounding Malay/Indonesian and other languages, issues in incorporating Malay/Indonesian in a cross-linguistic project (e.g. linguistic typology, language resource development), etc. We are planning to publish selected papers as a special issue of NUSA. Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia. http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/publications/nusa *** Local Organizers: Hiroki Nomoto, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Asako Shiohara, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Co-organizers: Peter Cole, University of Delaware Thomas Conners, University of Maryland David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Peter Slomanson, University of Tampere Hooi Ling Soh, University of Minnesota *** Inquiries: gil AT shh.mpg.de