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ABSTRACTS [For convenience all the abstracts below have also been combined into the one pdf file - last updated 1 April 2008] Larin Adams and Vongtsuh shi Event coercion with the completive particle lei in Makuri Naga. Zaharani Ahmad Phonology-Morphology Interface in Malay Idris Aman, Rosniah Mustaffa, Zaharani Ahmad, Jamilah Mustafa & M. Fadzeli Jaafar The Social Variation of Malay in Kuching, Sarawak: Identity and Integration Yazid Basthomi Reading Recent Indonesian Non-conventional Expressions George Bedell MacNabb's Lai Orthography Wichat Booranaprasertsook Lexical-Semantic System Of The Visually Impaired And The Auditory Impaired Marc Brunelle Contact-induced tonal development? A comparison of register in three Cham dialects Brian Butler Acoustic Features of Obstruent Voicing Contrasts in Burmese James N. Chancharu Semantic Extension of the Verbs of Tactile Sensation in Thai and Zhuang Yi-Ting Chen Two Complementizers? Analysis of Amis u and a Sepideh Chitsaz Common Persian and Arabic Loanwords in Malay: A Trilingual Comparison Doug Cooper 'Sound[s|ed] like ...?' Approximate Phonetic Search in the Mon-Khmer Languages Project Gerard Diffloth Proto-Aslian diphthongs and historical parallels in other Austroasiatic languages Djatmika Harmonious Vowels In Reduplications As The Representation Of The Javanese Speakers’ Lifestyle Marc Duval On cognate objects and cognate subjects in East Asian languages N. J. Enfield and Gerard Diffloth Kri, a Vietic language of Laos Supamas Engchuan A Comparative Study of Color Terms among Fujian Speakers in Singapore, Taiwan, Penang and Southern Thailand David Gil Excrescent Vowels in Minangkabau Hasmidar bt Hassan The Structure of the 4th Sentence in Malay: A Pragmatic Explanation Manasikarn Hengsuwan & Amara Prasithrathsint An ethnosemantic study of ghost terms in Thai Jirat Hiranras Grammaticalization of the Verb of Taking into Pragmatic Markers in Thai Imran Ho-Abdullah Semantic Motivation for the Malay prefix beR- Nguyen Hong Con Vietnamese Passive Sentences from a Typological Perspective Paulette Hopple Nominalization, Relativization and Genitivization in Selected Palaungic Languages Kitima Indrambarya Prepositions in Thai: A Reanalysis Jim and Nelleke Johansson Reduplication in Kimaragang Rodney C. Jubilado Monadic Verbs in Isamal Language Ratchaneeya Klinnamhom Politics Is Thai Boxing: The concept of politics as reflected in metaphorical expressions used by Thai politicians Sarah Lee An acoustic study of the tone system of Penang Hokkien – a contact variety of Southern Min Hermanto Lim and Matthew Peebles The Sentence Repetition Test as a tool to measure community-wide bilingualism in standard Indonesian Yi-An Lin The Information Structure of Nominal Phrases and DP-internal Phrasal Movement in Buginese Hooi Ling Soh and Hiroki Nomoto Progressive Aspect, the Verbal Prefix meN- and Stative Sentences in Malay Vanjuree Ramlah Abd Manaf Reduplication in Thai: Form and Function Norsimah Mat awal & Harishon Radzi Bahasa Melayu MeN... - ... kan Affix: A Morphosemantics Analysis Jenny Mathias Deixis and information structure in Mon Natsuki Matsui Eventivity and stativity in Thai predicate Chun-Mei Chen Extrametricality in Budai Rukai Fazal Mohamed Bin Mohamed Sultan How Possesive Is An Enclitic '-Nya' In Malay? Maria Mondejar-Nicasio Lexical Borrowing through Globalization Suthatip Mueanjai On Benefactive in Thai and Vietnamese: The Verb of Giving Jamilah Mustafa, Zaharani Ahmad, Idris Aman, Rosniah Mustaffa & Mohd Fadzeli Jaafar A Comparison of the variation of Bahasa Melayu (Malay language) as used by the Babas and Chitties of Melaka Rosniah Mustaffa, Jamilah Mustafa, Idris Aman, Zaharani Ahmad & Mohammad Fadzeli Jaafar Different style, different accent? Naonori Nagaya Noun-modifying constructions in Tagalog Suwadee Nasawat The honorific system reflected by first-person pronouns, second-person pronouns and responding particles in Thai royal vocabularies Sasitorn Nawalertpreecha Variation in the systems of kinship terms used by Teochui speakers of different age groups in Wat Hualampong community in Bangkok Giang Nguyen Adaptation of French loanwords in Vietnamese Nor Hashimah Jalaluddin & Ahmad Harith Syah The Semantic of Prefix peN in Malay: A Bridging Cross Reference Analysis Anongnard Nusartlert A comparison of the subcategorization of the 'put on' verbs in Thai and Japanese Songgot Paanchiangwong Interference of Thai reduplication to quantitative intensifier in Vietnamese spoken in Udon Thani province, Thailand Kosin Panyaatisin An Ethnosemantic Study Of Cooking Terms In Lanna Thai Naraset Pisitpanporn Homorganic point of articulation in modern Khmer songs Pittayawat Pittayaporn Proto-Southwestern Tai: A New Reconstruction Amara Prasithrathsint The quotative complementizer in Lao and Thai Korapat Pruekchaikul Doing Metrosexuality in Men’s Advertisements Kumaran Rajandran The Use of Composition in Malay Language Newspapers’ Front Pages Rogayah A Razak, Yong Ennie & Zaharah Abu Bakar Wh-Questions In Malay Caregiver-Child Interactions Soraj Ruangmanee The Verb of Acquiring in Vietnamese: A Corpus-based Cognitive Semantic Study Sorabud Rungrojsuwan & Rungwimol Rungrojsuwan Village Names in Chiang Saen: A linguistic-dominated multidisciplinary view on the study of village names Khazriyati Salehuddin, Heather Winskel & Marlyna Maros The pragmatics of Malay numeral classifiers: An investigation of modern Malay corpuses Faizah Sari A Cross-linguistic Dimension of Pragmatic Particles Masayoshi Shibatani Relativization in Austronesian Melissa Shih-hui Lin Description of Sakizaya Paul Sidwell Is Mon-Khmer dead? Long live Austroasiatic! Looi Siew Teip Nasal Preplosion and Word-Final Glottal Stops in Temuan: a Non-Linear Analysis Pornsiri Singhapreecha and Rint Sybesma Split Quantified Phrases in Thai Nominals Mingmit Sriprasit A Diachronic Study of /yuù/ in Thai Uri Tadmor Representing Complex Oral-Nasal Segments in the Kualan Language of Borneo Kiyoko Takahashi Basic serial verb constructions in Thai semantics, syntax Monthira Tamuang A Contrastive Analysis between Thai and Myanmar Discourse Markers Kachen Tansiri It was done or it has been done? : What corpus tells us about perfective aspect and perfect in Thai Bao Duy Thai Code-Switching as a Means of Staking the Claims of Identities: A Case study of the Media in the Viet Diaspora Jennie Tran The syntactic development of classifier phrases in young Vietnamese children Kimiko Tsukada & Thu T. A. Nguyen Identification of Vietnamese final stops: A preliminary investigation of the effect of speakers’ dialects Sylvia Tufvesson Semantics and sensory encoding in Semai expressives Claudia Wegener & Niclas Burenhult Semnam: an Orang Asli language of Perak, Peninsular Malaysia Parinya Wongtawan Subjectification of the verb /hen/ 'SEE' in Thai Natchanan Yaowapat Polyfunctionality of the stng grammatical word in Thai