Southeast Asian Languages: Empirical Grammatical Studies

Aims and scope

Southeast Asian Languages: Empirical Grammatical Studies (SEALEGS) publishes original scientific research on the grammars of the languages of Southeast Asia that both advances linguistic theory and contributes to the further description and understanding of the region’s languages. The series welcomes work concerning the grammatical analysis of languages of Southeast Asia belonging to the Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Kra-Dai, Hmong-Mien, and Tibeto-Burman language families, as well as sign languages and other language varieties spoken in the region, including local varieties of English, Chinese, and other contact languages. Topics may include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, pragmatics, and their interfaces. Work may be focused on a particular language or a group of languages, and include both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Only monographs (including substantially revised theses) and thematically focused edited volumes will be considered. The series is open to work that mixes differing degrees of original empirical and theoretical contributions related to the languages of this linguistically vibrant yet still understudied region. In particular, we also explicitly welcome primarily descriptive or documentary work on underdescribed languages of Southeast Asia which are informed by and relevant to current questions in linguistic theory. The series will not consider work that falls exclusively within applied linguistics or purely descriptive research lacking engagement with issues of grammatical analysis.

Editor:

• Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (CNRS / Nantes Université)

Editorial board:

• Victoria Chen (Victoria University of Wellington)
• Virginia Dawson (Western Washington University)
• Rikker Dockum (Binghamton University)
• Henrison Hsieh (National Tsing Hua University)
• Peter Jenks (University of California Berkeley)
• Trang Phan (Ca’ Foscari University Venice)
• Alexander D. Smith (Fudan University)
• Tamisha L. Tan (Nanyang Technological University)

Languages

We accept submissions in English.

Proposals

We invite proposals for monographs and edited volumes. Proposals should be submitted to the series editor as a single PDF file of no more than 10 pages. All proposals should include: a working title, a 1–3 page summary of the goals and contributions of the book, a list of chapters with one paragraph abstracts for each, and a proposed timeline. Additionally: • For monographs: Include the name, affiliation, and one paragraph resume for each author. Please also attach a sample chapter (not included in the 10 page limit). • For revised dissertations: Describe the key changes that will distinguish the proposed monograph from the dissertation (1–2 pages) and also attach a copy of the dissertation. • For edited volumes: Give the author names and affiliations for each proposed chapter, and the name, affiliation, and one paragraph resume for each volume editor. Note that only thematically coherent edited volumes will be accepted; we do not intend to publish conference proceedings at this time. After in-principle acceptance of a monograph proposal, the completed manuscript will be reviewed by two readers, at least one of whom will generally be the series editor or an editorial board member. The author(s) will revise their manuscript based on these comments, and the series editor or an editorial board member will confirm that the revisions have addressed the reviewer comments reasonably and in good faith. At that stage, we hope for additional review or significant further revisions to be necessary only in exceptional circumstances. For edited volumes, the volume editors should ensure that each chapter has undergone review by at least two readers, and that each chapter has then been suitably revised based on those comments. Books in the series are ideally between 150 and 450 pages (approximately 50–150k words). Please note that authors and volume editors must work to ensure that the final volume is typeset in LaTeX according to Language Science Press requirements.