JSEALS is the peer-reviewed journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, and isdevoted to publishing research on the languages of mainland and insular Southeast AsiaContentsSino-Vietnamese Grammatical Vocabulary And Sociolinguistic Conditions ForBorrowing -- 1Agreement In Laizo 11Influence Of Lexical Semantics On Reflexes And Allomorphs Of * And *In Bonggi 23Northern And Southern Vietnamese Tone Coarticulation: A Comparative Case Study49Contact Pragmatics: Requests In Wisconsin Hmong63English Loanword Adaptation In Burmese77A Layer Of Dongsonian Vocabulary In Vietnamese95Modality In Burmese: ‘May’ Or ‘Must’ – Grammatical Uses Of yá ‘Get’ 111Singapore English Wh-Questions: A Gap In The Paradigm 127Structural And Pragmatic Functions Of Kuki-Chin Verbal Stem Alternations 141The Middle Voice In Tagalog 159Reduplication Asymmetries In Bahasa Indonesia And The Organization Of The Lexicon-Syntax Interface189Proto-Mon-Khmer Vocalism: Moving On From Shorto’s ‘Alternances’ 205Basic Serial Verb Constructions In Thai 215An Acoustic Study Of Interword Consonant Sequences In Vietnamese 231The Integration Of English Loanwords In Hong Kong Cantonese 251Nonexhaustive Syllabification In TemiarNgee Thai Yap 267Data PaperPreliminary Notes On The Phonology, Orthography And Vocabulary Of Semnam (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula)283