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.

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 8th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALSVIII) was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20-22 July 1998. The meeting was organised by David Gil with the assistance of the Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the Universiti Kebangsaam Malaysia. Of the papers offered to the meeting, 15 are presented here. The papers reflect studies in various linguistic sub-disciplines, and discuss a number of SEAsian languages, including: Bonggi, Hokkien, Lai, Malay (Modern and Classical), Mnong, Proto-Austronesian, Raglai and Vietnamese.