Contemporary African Linguistics

12 Titles
 Contemporary African Linguistics

Editors

  • Michael Marlo (University of Missouri, editor-in-chief)
  • Laura J. Downing (University of Gothenburg)
  • Kristina Riedel (University of the Witwatersrand)

Editorial Board

  • Akinbiyi Akinlabi (Rutgers University)
  • Lee Bickmore (SUNY-Albany)
  • Michael Cahill (SIL)
  • Sharon Rose (University of California, San Diego)
  • Pius Akumbu (LLACAN, CNRS - INaLCO - EPHE)
  • Michael Diercks (Pomona College)
  • James Essegbey (University of Florida)
  • Hannah Gibson (University of Essex)
  • Chris Green (Syracuse University)
  • Abby Hantgan (LLACAN)
  • Nancy Kula (University of Essex)
  • Florian Lionnet (Princeton University)
  • Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College)
  • Saudah Namyalo (Makerere University)
  • Cédric Patin (University of Lille)
  • Doris Payne (University of Oregon)
  • Galen Sibanda (Michigan State University)
  • Harold Torrence (UCLA)
  • Quentin Williams (University of the Western Cape)
  • Kathryn Franich (Harvard University)

Aims and Scope

The aim of this series is to advance and sustain research on African languages. It will publish at least one annual volume, namely, selected papers from the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), beginning with the 45th conference, held in 2014. ACAL has been held every year since 1970 and represents the largest annual gathering of Africa-oriented linguists in the world. The conference provides a forum for the presentation of current research on African languages by scholars from North America, Europe, Africa, and elsewhere. A subset of the presented papers, selected through a strict peer-review process, provides a sampling of research in the field by top current researchers. The series will also publish peer-reviewed compilations and monographs featuring research on other topics in African linguistics as long as no other, more specialized, venue exists within Language Science Press (e.g. African Language Grammars and Dictionaries or Monographs on Comparative Niger-Congo. Submissions to this series can be in either English or French. Please refer to the submission guidelines.

ISSN

Contemporary African Linguistics has the ISSN 2511-7726.

Contact

cal@langsci-press.org

All Books

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Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches

Hannah Gibson (ed), Rozenn Guérois (ed), Gastor Mapunda (ed), Lutz Marten (ed)
February 1, 2024
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Forthcoming:ACAL in SoCAL: Selected papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics

Yaqian Huang (ed), Jun Jie Lim (ed), Sharon Rose (ed), Anthony Struthers-Young (ed), Nina Kaldhol (ed)
December 13, 2023
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Forthcoming:The Ghanaian linguistics nexus

Christopher R. Green (ed), Samson Lotven (ed)
October 25, 2023

Forthcoming:Pushing the boundaries: Selected papers from the 51-52 Annual Conference on African Linguistics

James Essegbey (ed), Brent Henderson (ed), Fiona McLaughlin (ed), Michael Diercks (ed)
October 25, 2023
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Descriptive and theoretical approaches to African linguistics: Selected papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics

Galen Sibanda (ed), Deo Ngonyani (ed), Jonathan Choti (ed), Ann Biersteker (ed)
September 27, 2022
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Celebrating 50 years of ACAL: Selected papers from the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics

Akinbiyi Akinlabi (ed), Lee Bickmore (ed), Michael Cahill (ed), Michael Diercks (ed), Laura J Downing (ed), James Essegbey (ed), Katie Franich (ed), Laura McPherson (ed)
November 16, 2021
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African linguistics across the disciplines: Selected papers from the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics

Samson Lotven (ed), Silvina Bongiovanni (ed), Phillip Weirich (ed), Robert Botne (ed), Samuel Gyasi Obeng (ed)
November 14, 2018