SEALS XXX (2021)
Program & Presentations
Welcome to SEALS 2021. This year the regular in-person conference remains suspended due to the pandemic. In its place, we are hosting a video-only SEALS, which is accessible to all and will stand indefinitely.
Talks, abstracts, and supplemental materials for SEALS 2021 are listed below with links to the files. For the best video experience we recommend that you watch the videos via the YouTube playlist links above each grouping below or simply click the YouTube link after each talk title. Alternately you can click on the talk titles, these link through to files in a Google Drive folder (in some cases these are higher resolution but may take longer to load).
As you enjoy the talks, if you note any broken, missing, or faulty links, please advise us at <seals.executive@gmail.com>.
Welcome and Introduction
Paul Sidwell (President, Treasurer), Mark Alves (Publications Officer), YouTube
SEALS 2022 Hawaii Information
Kamil Dean, YouTube
Presentations
Keynote Talk
Marc Miyake, The prehistory of Pyu, YouTube, Abstract
Alexander Smith, More Austro-Tai Comparisons and Observations on Vowel Correspondences, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Ayaka Hirano, The Split of Proto-Tai Voiced Stop Consonants in Nung of Trang Dinh District, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Mark Alves, Vietic and Early Chinese Grammatical Vocabulary in Vietnamese, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Paul Sidwell, Austroasiatic Dispersal: the AA “Water-World” Extended, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Tan Ta, The role of pitch in registrogenesis and tonogenesis of Vietic languages: new evidence from Rục and Arem, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Victoria Chen, Jonathan Kuo, Kristina Gallego and Isaac Stead, Tracing the origin of Malayo-Polynesian: A view from morphosyntax, YouTube, Abstract
Jean Pacquement, The Tai Meuy of Bolikhamxay Province (Laos) and their language, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Rikker Dockum, Opening a closed class: sociolinguistic factors in the expansion of Thai pronominals, YouTube, Abstract
Sin Yee Melody Li, Yilan Creole in Taiwan – a Unique Case of Language Contact, with special focus on TAM system, YouTube, Abstract
Earvin Christian Pelagio, Rexie Quizon, Johans Cruz, Jemima Atok and Kevin Ray Abesamis, Kapampangan Perfective Infix -i-, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Elissa Ikeda, Syllable structure and morphemicity in tone patterns on verbs in Kanise Khumi, YouTube, Abstract
Khawlsonkim Suantak, Plurality in Vaiphei, YouTube, Abstract
Marvin Casalan, The Nominal Marking System of Kinaray-a, YouTube, Abstract
Nathan Straub, Allomorphy in the Duru dialect of Rawang, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Samir Debbarma and L Pratima Devi, Expressives in Kokborok, YouTube, Abstract
Yasunori Takahashi, The grammatical nature of Sino-Vietnamese “verb-object compounds”, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Edward Estrera, Bagobo-Klata Phonology, YouTube, Abstract
James Kirby, Acoustic properties of voiceless and preglottalized continuants in Khmu, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Luke Horo and Gregory Anderson, Towards a prosodic typology of Kherwarian Munda languages: Santali of Assam, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Ryan Gehrmann, A Preliminary Study on the Acoustic Correlates of Pseudoregister in Pacoh, YouTube, Abstract
Sho Yamaoka, The position of the medial in the syllable structure in Hanoi Vietnamese: an articulatory perspective, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Wen Hao Tan, Preliminary acoustic analysis of minor syllables in Kanise Khumi, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Alice Vittrant and Karl Seifen, Polyfunctionality of “come” and “go” in Thai and Burmese, YouTube, Abstract
Chirbet Ayunon and Shirley Dita, Basic Clauses in Itawit, YouTube, Abstract
Hero Patrianto, Topic in Javanese Object Voice Construction, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Ivan Netkachev, Towards an analysis of quantifier float in Indonesian, YouTube, Abstract
Kailadbou Daimai, Nominalization and its various functions in Liangmai, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Kellen Parker van Dam, Dipjyoti Goswami and David Inman, Demonstratives as sentential comparatives in Pangwa Tangsa, YouTube, Abstract
Leah Pappas, A Typology of Spatial Deixis in Island Southeast Asia, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Li Nguyen and Chenchen Song, Noncanonical pronominal items in Vietnamese and Chinese: Imposters or true pronouns?, YouTube, Abstract
Mary Moroney, Repeater classifiers and nominal structure, YouTube, Abstract
Mathias Jenny and Rudolf Yanson, Syntactic and semantic boundness of noun phrases in Burmese, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Mijke Mulder, Serial verb constructions in Muklom (Tibeto-Burman), YouTube, Abstract
Naomi Peck, Piloting a multivariate approach to complex verbal constructions: Kera’a (Idu) SVCs and other multi-verbal expressions, YouTube, Abstract
Roger Blench, Directional terms in Idu, a language of Northeast India, YouTube, Abstract
Seifen Karl, Vittrant Alice, Song Jinke and Bunkham Nichuta, Path and Deixis as distinct categories: Evidences from (South-)East Asian languages, YouTube, Abstract
Takenori Murakami, Serial Verb Construction in Tangkhul, YouTube, Abstract
Vincent Christopher Santiago, Nominal anchoring functions of Porohanon common noun markers, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Weijian Meng, Periphrastic causativization in Saek, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material
Wichamdinbo Mataina and Kailadbou Daimai, On the usages and functions of the Case marker -niu in colloquial Liangmai, YouTube, Abstract
Yu-chen Wu, Focus Construction in Budai Rukai, YouTube, Abstract
Zahid Akter, Pangkhua adverbs, YouTube, Abstract, Supplemental material