Papers In Southeast Asian Linguistics

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The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) is a forum for linguists focusing on languages of mainland and Pacific Southeast Asia. The 2001 edition, Papers from the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, is a compilation of many of the papers presented at the meeting which was hosted by the Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University, Nakornpatom, Thailand from May 16-18, 2001. The conference featured three keynote speeches, eighty-seven paper presentations, and summation. About 150 scholars from more than 20 countries participated. All major language families of the region were represented at the conference and the papers focused on a wide range of linguistic topics.

The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.

The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) is a forum for linguists focusing on languages of mainland and Pacific Southeast Asia. The 1997 edition, Papers from the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, compiles many relevant topics from the 1997 annual meeting which was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May of 1997 and covered a variety of linguistic topics pertaining to languages that include: Lai, Malay, Tai, Filipino, Mishmi, Khmer, Hmong, Burmese, and others.