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

Final 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 are being accepted through January 13, 2020 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).
Abstracts should not exceed 1 letter-size (A4, 8.5”x11”) page, using Times New Roman 11 point font, single-spaced, with 1-inch (2.5cm) margins, inclusive of references, figures and title.
Abstracts must be fully anonymous: authors’ names, affiliations, or pictures should not be indicated anywhere in the document.

Important Dates:

Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 13, 2020

Notification of Acceptance: Early February, 2020

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

Online Regular Registration: April 16 – May 12, 2020

To submit your abstract, go to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seals30

For more information about the conference, visit our website at https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/

Questions? Contact us at seaconfs@hawaii.edu

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

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National Foreign Language Resource Center

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa