The 30th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) 

Call for papers 

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa invites scholars working on Southeast Asian linguistics to the 30th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS), May 18-20, 2020, to be held on the campus of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 

Plenary speakers 

Gary Holton, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 

Kitima Indambarya, Kasetsart University 

Peter Jenks, UC Berkeley 

Aldrin Lee, University of the Philippines - Diliman 

The SEALS Conference will be immediately preceded by the International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL) and the International Symposium on the Languages of Java (ISLOJ) on May 14-16, as well as a series of workshops on various topics and a special lecture by Dr. Robert Blust (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) on May 17, 2020. 

Submissions of abstracts for talks and posters will be accepted beginning November 01, 2019 at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seals30 

Abstracts dealing with any areas related to Southeast Asian Languages will be considered. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 

• phonetics and phonology 

• morphology 

• syntax 

• semantics 

• pragmatics 

• discourse analysis 

• genetic and areal relationships 

• interactional linguistics 

• historical and comparative studies 

• sociolinguistic studies 

• psycholinguistics 

• language acquisition 

• neurolinguistics 

• language and culture/thought 

• language documentation 

• language endangerment 

• language revitalization/reclamation 

Presentations will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstracts should be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Abstracts must conform to the following format requirements: 

• Abstract must have a clear and informative title (preferably centered at top of page, in bold, in sentence case). 

• All text, examples, figures and references must fit on one A1 (8.5”x11”) page (minimum font size: 11, single spaced). 

• Abstracts must be fully anonymous: authors’ names, affiliations, or pictures should not be indicated anywhere in the document. 

Abstracts must be submitted by January 05, 2020 via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seals30). For more information, see https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/, or email seaconfs@hawaii.edu 

Important Dates: 

Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 5, 2020

Notification of Acceptance: Early February, 2020 

Online Pre-registration: February 01 – April 15, 2020 

Online Regular Registration: April 16 – May 12, 2020 

The conference is co-sponsored and co-organized by the National Foreign Language Resource Center.