Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
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The Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society accepts submissions written in English that deal with general linguistic issues which further the lively debate that characterizes the annual SEALS conferences. Devoted to a region of extraordinary linguistic diversity, the journal features papers on the languages of Southeast Asia, including Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Tibeto-Burman, and Tai-Kadai.
Topics may include descriptive, theoretical, or historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and anthropological linguistics, among other areas of linguistics of languages of Southeast Asia. JSEALS also admits data papers, reports, and notes, subject to an internal review process.
Although we normally expect that JSEALS articles will have been presented and discussed at the SEALS conference, submission is open to all, regardless of participation in SEALS meetings. Each original article undergoes double-blind review by at least two scholars, usually a member of the Advisory Board and one or more independent referees.
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Reanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs
Posted on Monday November 29, 2021A Phonology and Lexicon of Khang in Vietnam
Posted on Tuesday August 31, 2021The Structure of Classifier-Modifier Recursion in Thai
Posted on Tuesday August 31, 2021Lanna Tai of the 16th century: A preliminary study of the Sino-Lanna Manual of Translation
Posted on Tuesday August 31, 2021The Scalar Interpretation of the Additive Focus Particle *=Bv in Select Boro-Garo Languages
Posted on Friday January 01, 2021In Memoriam: Nguyễn Văn Lợi (1947-2020)
Posted on Wednesday February 03, 2021Book Notice: The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese (2019) by Nathan Hill
Posted on Wednesday February 03, 2021Comments on Jacques’ “The directionality of the voicing alternation in Tibetan”
Posted on Wednesday February 03, 2021A First Look at Chen (Konyak) Argument and Clause Structures
Posted on Wednesday February 03, 2021Papuan Malay – A Language of the Austronesian-Papuan Contact Zone
Posted on Wednesday February 03, 2021The Directionality of the Voicing Alternation in Tibetan
Posted on Wednesday February 03, 2021Anaphor Reconstruction in Thai Relative Clauses
Posted on Wednesday February 03, 2021Decomposing Definiteness in Vietnamese
Posted on Wednesday February 03, 2021Lexicalization Patterns of Path Motion in Vietnamese
Posted on Monday December 07, 2020Ming Shilu as Evidence of Devoicing of Voiced Obstruents in Siamese
Posted on Monday December 07, 2020The Malay Lects of Southern Sumatra
Posted on Monday December 07, 2020Historical Ethnolinguistic Notes on Proto-Austroasiatic and Proto-Vietic Vocabulary in Vietnamese
Posted on Monday December 07, 2020Surface Processes, Word Minimality and Stress Assignment in Blanga
Posted on Tuesday September 08, 2020Productive Reduplication in Southern Vietnamese
Posted on Tuesday September 08, 2020Book Notice: Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective
Posted on Tuesday September 08, 2020The Tai Ahom Sound System as Reflected by the Texts Recorded in the Bark Manuscripts
Posted on Tuesday September 08, 2020Voiced Obstruents in Mien and Old Chinese Reconstructions
Posted on Tuesday September 08, 2020Studies in the Anthropology of Language in Mainland Southeast Asia
Posted on Friday May 08, 2020Reduction in Burmese Compounds
Posted on Friday May 08, 2020Situation Types in Thai Sign Language
Posted on Monday January 27, 2020Variation of Oral and Nasal Stops by English and Japanese Learners of Thai
Posted on Monday January 27, 2020Papers from the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 25
Posted on Monday January 27, 2020Ethnolinguistic Notes on the Language Endangerment Status of Mintil, an Aslian Language
Posted on Monday January 27, 2020Reconsidering the Diachrony of Tone in Rma
Posted on Monday January 27, 2020A Look at Diachronic Phonological Processes in Inthii Oy
Posted on Monday January 27, 2020Papers from the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 24
Posted on Wednesday December 04, 2019The Compatibility between Expressive Elements: Kinship Terms, Pronouns, and Racial Slurs in Vietnamese
Posted on Wednesday December 04, 2019Variation in the Voiced Coronals of Two Fataluku-speaking Villages
Posted on Thursday September 12, 2019The Vietnamese Polyfunctional Marker Mà as a Generalized Linker: A Multilevel Approach
Posted on Thursday September 12, 2019The Munda Maritime Hypothesis
Posted on Thursday September 12, 2019Muak Sa-aak: Challenges of an Extensive Phoneme Inventory for a Contained Latin-Based Orthography
Posted on Thursday September 12, 2019Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna)
Posted on Friday September 27, 2019Proposing a Facilitated Participatory Approach for Southeast Asian Minority Language Orthography Design
Posted on Thursday May 02, 2019Spatial Relations along the In-On Continuum in Thai Sign Language
Posted on Thursday May 02, 2019Tones in the Cuoi Language of Tan Ki District in Nghe An Province, Vietnam
Posted on Thursday May 02, 2019Vietnamese Initial Consonant Clusters in Quốc Ngữ Documents from the 17th to Early 19th Centuries
Posted on Thursday May 02, 2019Types and Functions of Reduplication in Palembang
Posted on Thursday May 02, 2019Book Notice: Mainland Southeast Asian Languages - A Concise Typological Introduction, by N. J. Enfield
Posted on Wednesday February 20, 2019In Memoriam: Thomas M. Tehan (1949-2019)
Posted on Wednesday February 20, 2019Request Modifications Used by Chinese Learners and Native Speakers of Thai
Posted on Wednesday February 20, 2019Two-part Negation in Yang Zhuang
Posted on Wednesday February 20, 2019Tonal Variation in Pyen
Posted on Wednesday February 20, 2019A View on Proto-Karen Phonology and Lexicon
Posted on Wednesday February 20, 2019The Labial Causative In Trans-Himalayan
Posted on Wednesday February 20, 2019Non-finite Clauses in Thai
Posted on Wednesday February 20, 2019Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics
Posted on Monday December 03, 2018Languages and Scripts Reflecting Patani Malay Multiple Identities in Thailand’s Deep South
Posted on Monday December 03, 2018Review of: Thurgood, Graham, and Randy LaPolla, eds. The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Second Edition
Posted on Monday December 03, 2018Temporal Expressions In Balinese: Focused On The Semantic Functions Of Temporal Adverbials
Posted on Monday December 03, 2018Notes on Chinese Words in Shorto’s Proto-Austroasiatic Reconstructions
Posted on Monday December 03, 2018Preliminary Phonology of Rera, a Tangsa Variety of Northeast india
Posted on Monday December 03, 2018Twos and Fore: Dual Organization and the Importance of Foreshadowing in Prai Story Structure
Posted on Monday December 03, 2018Rhetorical Questions in Papuan Malay, Other Malayic Languages, and the Papuan Languages of West Papua
Posted on Monday December 03, 2018A Phonology Of Eastern Kmhmu' With Special Reference To Palatal Continuant Codas And Neutralisation Of Vowel Length Contrast
Posted on Monday December 03, 2018Papers from the Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium on Southeast Asian Linguistics 2017
Posted on Tuesday October 02, 2018 - Pricing Guide
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- Author Guidelines
- Editorial Board
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Editor-in-Chief
Mark Alves (Montgomery College, USA) Vietnamese linguistics, Austroasiatic languages, Chinese linguistics, Southeast Asian Historical Linguistics and Language
Managing Editors
Nathan Hill (University of London, SOAS) Tibeto-Burman and Historical linguistics
Sigrid Lew (Dallas International University, Dallas, TX) Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman phonetics and phonology, Latin-based and Brahmi-based orthography development
Paul Sidwell (Australia National University, Australia) Austroasiatic languages, Historical linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics
SEALS EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Edith ALDRIDGE (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) – Syntax (especially case, voice, word order, alignment), syntactic change & reconstruction, Austronesian, Chinese
Nathan BADENOCH (Villanova University, USA) – Astroasiatic linguistics, Tibeto-Burman linguistics, linguistic anthropology, ideophones/expressives
Luke BRADLEY (University of Freiburg, Germany) – Psycholinguistics, Orthography, Sound change, Morphology, Vietnamese
Marc BRUNELLE (University of Ottawa, Canada) – Phonetics and phonology, Tone and voice quality, Language contact, Vietnamese and Chamic languages
Christopher BUTTON (Independent researcher) – Old Chinese, Old Burmese, Kuki-Chin, Proto-Sino-Tibetan / Proto-Tibeto-Burman, Comparative/Historical Phonology, Morphology & Semantics, Palaeography (Oracle Bone Inscriptions)
Kamil DEEN (University of Hawaii, USA) – Thai syntax, First language acquisition
Gerard DIFFLOTH (Cambodia) – Historical Austroasiatic linguistics, Ethno-zoology, Ethno-botany, Expressives
Rikker DOCKUM (Yale University, USA) – Kra-Dai languages, Historical linguistics, Tone systems, Quantitative comparative linguistics, Thai epigraphy, Language documentation
David M. EBERHARD (Ethnologue general editor, SIL International) – Language Shift, Language Development
Ryan GEHRMANN (Payap University) – Historical phonology, Tone and voice quality, Austroasiatic languages
San San HNIN TUN (INCALCO, France) – Burmese language, Discourse marking, Corpus linguistics
Kitima INDRAMBARYA (Kasetsart University, Thailand) – Thai linguistics, Thai Syntax, Language acquisition
Peter JENKS (UC Berkeley, USA) – Thai linguistics, Syntax, Semantics, Kra-Dai languages
Mathias JENNY (University of Zurich, Switzerland) – Languages of Myanmar and Thailand, Austroasiatic languages, Language contact, Language change, Historical syntax, Language and ethnicity, Language endangerment
Daniel KAUFMAN (Queens College, City University of New York & Endangered Language Alliance, USA) – Austronesian languages, Historical linguistics, Typology, Syntax, Morphology
James KIRBY (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) – Phonetics and phonology, Sound change, Evolution of voicing, Tone and register, Language and music, Khmer, Vietnamese, Tai languages
Hsiu-chuan LIAO (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) – Austronesian linguistics, Historical linguistics, Syntax, Morphology, Language documentation
Bradley MCDONNELL (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA) – Austronesian languages, Phonology, Syntax, Language documentation
Alexis MICHAUD (CNRS (Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France) – Tibeto-Burman languages, Phonetics/phonology, Prosody, Language documentation
Marc MIYAKE (The British Museum) – Historical phonology, Writing systems, Language contact, Chinese and Indic influence on Southeast Asian languages, Pyu
David MORTENSEN (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) – Hmong-Mien Languages, Phonology, OT, and Computational linguistics
Tuong Hung NGUYEN (SUNY Broome Community College, USA) – Vietnamese linguistics, Syntax
Peter NORQUEST (University of Arizona, USA) – Languages of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Kra-Dai and Austronesian languages, Historical phonology, Long-range relationships, Language contact
Christina Joy PAGE (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada) – Literacy development, Latin- and Brahmi-based orthographies
John D. PHAN (Columbia University, USA) – Sino-Vietnamese linguistics, Austroasiatic linguistics, historical phonology, language contact
Pittayawat PITTAYAPORN (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) – Thai linguistics, Kra-Dai languages, Historical linguistics, Phonology, Language contact
Amara PRASITHRATHSINT (Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) – Syntax, Syntactic change, Language contact, Sociolinguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Translation
Alexander D. SMITH (University of North Texas) – Austronesian Comparative Linguistics, Island Southeast Asia, Historical linguistics, Phonology, Field work
Kenneth VAN BIK (California State University, Fullerton, CA) – Kuki-Chin Linguistics, Comparative-Historical Linguistics, and Endangered Languages
Seth VITRANO-WILSON (Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand) – Orthography, Writing Systems
Alice VITTRANT (Aix-Marseille Université / CNRS-DDL, France) – Languages of Burma, Burmese dialects, Hmong, Endangered languages, Typology, Syntax, TAM, Classifiers, Motion and space, Deixis
Heather WINSKEL (Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia) – Psycholinguistics, Reading Research
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Articles appearing in the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society are indexed in the following sources:
Brill–
Linguistic Bibliography (Online)DOAJ-Directory of Open Access Journals
EBSCOhost–
Communication Source, 12/1/2011-
TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 12/1/2011-Elsevier BV–
Scopus, 2014-ProQuest–
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (Online), Core
Linguistics Collection, 1/1/2016-
Social Science Premium Collection, 1/1/2016-Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.–
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