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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">SEALS XVIII<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">The 18th Annual Meeting
of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">21-22 May 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia, Bangi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Deadline for abstracts:
1 February 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; color: blue;"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/seals_xviii/">http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/seals_xviii/</a></span></span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">First Call for Abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Abstracts are invited
for papers on any topic related to the analysis of Southeast Asian
languages.<span style=""> </span>Abstracts should be written
using a Unicode font and should consist of two or three pages as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Page 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -27pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">(1) Paper title<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -27pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">(2) Sub-field (functional, discourse,
sociolinguistics, phonology, formal syntax, semantics, historical, language
contact, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -27pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">(3) Name(s) of author(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -27pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">(4) Affiliation(s) of author(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -27pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">(5) Email address for each author<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Page 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Abstract body (maximum
400 words).<span style=""> </span>Be as specific as space
allows, with a statement of topic, approach, and conclusions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">References (if any).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">An author may submit
one single and one joint abstract. <span style=""> </span>In
case of joint authorship, one author should be designated as the contact person.<span style=""> </span>Presentations are allotted 20 minutes with 10
minutes for questions.<span style=""> </span>All papers at
SEALS are delivered in English. Papers presented at the meeting will be
considered for publication in the </span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Abstracts should be
submitted as email attachments in two formats, .PDF and .DOC, to </span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Prof. Dr.
Nor Hashimah Jalaluddin</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> at
the following address:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">shima at
pkrisc.cc.ukm.my (replace “ at ” with “@”)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Please indicate “<b style="">Abstract for SEALS XVIII</b>” in the email
subject heading.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Notification of
acceptance by 1 March 2008. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Sponsor:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Linguistics Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">School of
Language Studies and Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Phone: 603-89216474/6586/6581<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fax: 603-89254577<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">For more information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; color: blue;"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/seals_xviii/">http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/seals_xviii/</a></span></span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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