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Forthcoming: Pamoja tena 'Together again': African linguistics after COVID
Synopsis
The papers in this volume were selected from those presented at the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held at the University of Connecticut in June, 2024. The volume contains 22 papers with diverse topics within phonology, morphology, syntax, language acquisition, and historical linguistics. The African languages that are investigated in this volume include Kom, Igbo, Dagaare, Igala, Kalenjin, Rɨ̀kpá, Ekhwa Adara, Hausa, Nduga, Maa, Lugwere, Emai, Seenku, Kirundi, Chichewa, Tiriki, Kono, and Kasem.
Chapters
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Focus and the association with focus sensitive particle "yerane" in Kasem
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Labial-velar stop placement identification in Igbo
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Vowel alternations in Dagaare number marking
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The phonology of Nandome Dagaare
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A negative alternationNegation head movement allomorphy in Igala
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A scattered deletion account of Chichewa partial dislocation
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A speech corpus of Kom verbal arts and its applications
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Two types of verbal number in Kalenjin pluractionality
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Interactions between lexical tone and accent in Rɨ̀kpáʔ
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Towards a typology of Bantu complementizers
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A reconstruction of proto-Sawabantu
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Interpretive properties of perception verbs in TirikiHyperraising and copy-raising
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A critique of areal-only approaches to Bantu spirantization
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Phono-semantic conditioning in Kirundi loanword noun class allocation
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The interaction between tone and intonation in Hausa WH-questions
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Polar and WH-question formation in Ekhwa Adara
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A collaborative methodology for grammatical tone acquisition in Seenku
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Headless relative clauses and anti-agreement in Kirundi
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An overview of Nduga phonology
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Apparent middle verbs in Maa
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Non-prototypical usages of the Lugwere causative extension
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Beyond the transitive prototypeBodily-condition predications in Emai
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Deriving SOV word order in Kono

Published
January 24, 2025
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Print ISSN
2511-7726
Cite as
Carstens, Vicki (ed.). Forthcoming. Pamoja tena 'Together again': African linguistics after COVID. (Contemporary African Linguistics). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Copyright (c) 2025 Vicki Carstens; Roslyn Burns, Daniel Aremu, Jason Shaw, Cassandra Caragine, Sophie Migacz, Michael Obiri Yeboah, Jack Pruett, Brandon Chaperon, Qiushi Chen, Matthew Faytak, Ivo Forghema Njuasi, Nichola Mori, Angelique Griffith, Nadja Fiebig, Kathryn Franich, Fridah Gam, John Gluckmann, Rebecca Grollemund, Katherine Johnson, Michael Diercks, Brandon Kieffer, Patrick Kintchsular, Han Li, Margaret Matte, Nhu Anh Nguyen, Emmanuel Bawa, Josh Amaris, Zhilang Liu, Aidan Malanoski, Olivia Mignone, Shane Quin, Alaa Sharif, Jason Kandybowicz, Laura McPherson, Willie Myers, Ken Olson, Doris Payne, Lilja Sæbo, Ronald Schaefer, Jason Smith