Celebrating 50 years of ACAL

The papers in this volume were presented at the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics held at the University of British Columbia in 2019. The contributions span a range of theoretical topics as well as topics in descriptive and applied linguistics. The papers reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa and also represent the breadth of the ACAL community, with papers from both students and more senior scholars, based in North America and beyond. They thus provide a snapshot on current research in African linguistics, from multiple perspectives. To mark the 50th anniversary of the conference, the volume editors reminisce, in the introductory chapter, about their memorable ACALs.

About the author

Laura McPherson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Dartmouth College. Her research is driven by primary fieldwork and in-depth description of tonal languages, primarily in West Africa. She has written two reference grammars of African languages, A Grammar of Tommo So (2013) and A Grammar of Seenku (2020). From a theoretical perspective, her work focuses on diverse aspects of tone, including its phonetics, its phonological representation, its interfaces with morphology and syntax. She is currently conducting a cross-linguistic study of musical surrogate languages to document these endangered traditions and analyze their phonetic and phonological underpinnings.

Product details

• Assisted by: Akinbiyi Akinlabi (Editor), Lee Bickmore (Editor), Michael Cahill (Editor), Michael Diercks (Editor), Laura J. Downing (Editor), James Essegbey (Editor), Katie Franich (Editor), Laura Mcpherson (Editor), Sharon Rose (Editor)
• Publisher: Language Science Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2021
• EAN: 9783985540051
• ISBN: 978-3-9855400-5-1
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 246 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 885 g
• Series: Contemporary African Linguistics 7
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures