ACAL 51-52 will take place April 8-10th, 2021 in a virtual format using Zoom. A link to the conference will be provided to registrants via email.
Download the schedule of talks here: ACAL-51-52_Program 4-7-21
Download a full program for the conference including abstracts here:
Links to handouts or other material provided by presenters can be found in the schedule below. All times given are Eastern Daylight Time.
Each session will have a chair to moderate. A list of session chairs can be found here: ACAL session chairs
| DAY 1 (THURSDAY) | |||||
| SESSION 1 | SESSION 2 | SESSION 3 | SESSION 4 | SESSION 5 | |
| 10:00-10:40 | 10:00 – 10:10 Welcome by Fiona McLaughlin (Local Organizing Committee)
10:10 – 10:20 Remarks by David Pharies (Associate Dean for Humanities) 10:20 – 10:25 Remarks by Brenda Chalfin (Director of Center for African Studies) 10:25 – 10:30 Remarks by Akinyemi Akintunde (Chair of Languages, Literatures & Cultures) 10:30 – 10:35 Remarks by Eric Potsdam (Chair of Linguistics) 10:35-10:40 Akinlabi Akinbiyi (Co-Organizing Committee, Rutgers) |
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| 10:40-10:45 | BREAK | ||||
| 10:45-11:15 | DEMIR
Grammatical tone interaction in Rere |
KANDYBOWICZ & NCHARE
Integrated appositive relative clauses in Shupamem |
HALPERT
Licensing external arguments: Some Bantu case puzzles revisited |
PEDAVOAH
Language policy and planning in the urban home: the nanny as an unrecognized agent MOVED TO FRIDAY@ 11:30 Session 5 |
OLSON
Labial-velar to labial sound changes in Luto |
| 11:15-11:45 | ODDEN
Logoori noun tone 2.0 |
FERNANDEZ GUERRERO
Strategies of clausal complementation in Rere |
CARSTENS
Unlocking coordinate structures: Agreement with conjoined objects in Swahili |
ANSAH & ANSAH
The use of persuasive language in Christian fundraising: Coercion or motivation? CANCELLED |
HAWTOF, BELEK & FRANICH
Acoustic analysis of implosives in Rikpa language |
| 11:45-12:15 | BREAK | FINHOLT & GLUCKMAN
A corpus study of Swahili’s dual-complementizer system |
KIM & GREEN
Copular constructions in Mbat: grammatical and classificatory considerations |
BREAK | CAHILL
Where do labialvelars go? |
| 12:15 – 1:00 | LUNCH | ||||
| SESSION 1 | SESSION 2 | SESSION 3 | SESSION 4 | SESSION 5 | |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | PLENARY SESSION 1: Amina METTOUCHI
Giving wings to our race against time: Auto-documentation and the Amazigh languages |
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| 2:00 – 2:15 | BREAK | ||||
| 2:15 – 2:45 | HASSEN, KALDHOL & ROSE
Tira participant marking: The role of tone |
SANGARE & ROY
Inverted copular sentences in Bambara |
BOSSI
Encoding negative bias in Kipsigis belief reports |
ASIIMWE, KANAMPUI, KERR, LI & VAN DER WAL
Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic relations |
FELICE
The morphosyntax of Ga subject pronominals |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | HODIEB
Tone and dissimilation in Wushi |
LEWIS
The affixal article in Mandinka |
JORDANOSKA
The pragmatics of Wolof daal |
SCHWAB
Inalienable kinship relations in colloquial isiXhosa: towards a syntactic analysis Moved to Sat @10am, session5 |
ALEISSA
Subject vs. non-subject extraction symmetries in Senoufo Nafara CANCELLED |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | RUSSELL
A unified account of grammatical tone (and length) in Ga |
SMITH
The SOV structure of Mende |
ADJEI, AMPONG & MAKAFUI
Towards a pragmatic study of name-calling on Ghana Web CANCELLED |
GOBENA
Copula and possession in Oromo: a typological perspective CANCELLED |
NGWASI
The non-reflexive functions of the reflexive prefix in Hehe, Nilamba and Nyaturu |
| 3:45 – 4:15 | MARLO & ODDEN
Logoori Tiriki comparative noun tone |
GOERTZEL
Pseudo-Incorporation and the structure of Mandinka DPs |
END | END | STRUTHERS-YOUNG
Multiple exponence of nasality in Northern Toussian |
| DAY 2 (FRIDAY) | |||||
| SESSION 1 | SESSION 2 | SESSION 3 | SESSION 4 | SESSION 5 | |
| 10:00-10:30 | AKUMBU
Vowel quality and stress in African tone languages: The case of Babanki |
DOHERTY
Non-future tense in non-neutral contexts in Ibibio CANCELLED |
BLUM
On the definition of adjectives in Dinka |
ILORI & ONUORA
A syntactic reappraisal of polar question constructions in Igbo |
RESCUE
The place of African lgs in multilingual classrooms: towards an intersectional approach to language of education in Ghana CANCELLED |
| 10:30-11:00 | DOWNING & KRÄMER
Phrasal vowel harmony: the view from Africa |
DUNCAN & KANDYBOWICZ
Diagnosing restrictivity and non-restrictivity in Ikpana relative clauses |
ABUBAKARI & ISSAH
Particles and ex situ focus in Mabia (Gur) languages: a grouping based on inventory |
PATERSON
Clause final negation and double negation in Northwest Kainji |
ZHANG
‘New’ changes in Tigrinya: internal development or Amharic influence? Language change and contact influence reflected in textbooks |
| 11:00-11:30 | HUANG
Does Rere have vowel harmony? |
AMAECHI
Islands and perfective (non-)extraction in Igbo
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SCHAEFER & EGBOKHARE
Starting points for tense-aspect analysis |
TAMBA
Wh-questions in Paloor |
VAN PINXTEREN
The concepts of discerned and designed languages and their relevance for Africa |
| 11:30-12:00 | DEKLU
Vowel harmony in Ewe: implications for theories of underspecification |
BOWDEN, DU, GRIFFIN & TROTTER
Detecting perfective and imperfective constrast in central Dagaare |
HARLEY
Vowel systems in Nigerian languages: genetic typology vs. areal characteristics |
BANI YOUNES & HELLMUTH
Resolving the debate about the disambiguation of disjunctive questions: Egyptian and other Arabic dialects |
PEDAVOAH
Language policy and planning in the urban home: the nanny as an unrecognized agent |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | LUNCH | ||||
| SESSION 1 | SESSION 2 | SESSION 3 | SESSION 4 | SESSION 5 | |
| 1:00 — 2:00 | PLENARY SESSION 2: Laura McPHERSON
Beyond talking drums: African languages in musical form Link to slides |
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| 2:00 – 2:15 | BREAK | ||||
| 2:15 – 2:45 | LEHMAN & BARON
Vowel hiatus resolution as a (non-)categorical phonologically conditioned process: evidence from Avatime and Ikpana |
BROWN & TORRENCE
The syntax of predicate focus doubling in Dschang |
AKUMBU
The expression of qualities in Babanki |
KOVAL
The hypersensitive agreement in Akebu |
FLECK
A possessor raising light verb in Tigrinya |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | KUZMIK & PASTER
Vowel hiatus resolution in Kikuyu |
KANDYBOWICZ, SCHURR, NCHARE, BUCKNOR, MA, MARKOWSKA & TAPIA
On the absence of (Certain) islands in Shupamem |
BOBUAFOR
Cut or uproot the rice: the cultural semantics of harvesting crops in Tafi |
SANDE
Phonological evidence for two different kinds of syntactic movement in Guébie |
PAYNE
Instrumental and dative applicatives in Maa |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | GREEN
Minimality, margins, and metrical structure: more on the mora in Somali |
DYER
Wolof universal dependency parsing |
LEE
On the partitivity of doo in Mandinka |
HENDERSON
Resumption in Chimiini passives |
SIBANDA
Reciprocity and quantification in Ndebele |
| 3:45 – 4:15 | KIEFFER
Variant glide repair strategies in Kinyarwanda |
FONG
Feature licensing and the interpretation of bare nominals in Wolof |
GIBSON, JERRO & KULA
Post-verbal clitics and particles in Bemba: partitive and focus readings |
GOTAH
On sentence- final particles in Tongugbe |
FURUMOTO
Grammaticalisation of the Kimakunduchi demonstrative into a pronominal topic marker |
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DAY 3 (SATURDAY) |
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| SESSION 1 | SESSION 2 | SESSION 3 | SESSION 4 | SESSION 5 | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | WIEBE
Tone absorption and the decomposability of tone features |
GUITANG
Frozen reduplication and repetition in Gizey |
BAR-EL & PETZELL
On the Bantu ‘imperfective’ morpheme -ag |
WELLER, FAYTAK, STEFFMAN, TEIXEIRA, MAYER & TANKOU
Tongue root position and laryngeal state in Yemba vowels |
SCHWAB
Inalienable kinship relations in colloquial isiXhosa: towards a syntactic analysis |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | ZHU
Tones and melodies of Tuwuli nouns |
LANGA da CAMARA, DIERCKS, COLANTES, KUZMIK, LY, ZHOU
Object marking in Cinyungwe |
CZUBA
Temporality and aspectuality in Dschang |
OLEJARCZUK & OTERO
Voice quality and purported ATR in Mòoré: a preliminary acoustic study |
AYUGHA
Bringing the Big Man down: the social function of Bokyi diminutives and augmentatives |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | BICKMORE
Town Nyanja verbal tonology |
MA
Why no double objective construction in Shupamem
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IYAMU
Pluractionality in Edo |
FAYTAK, STEFFMAN & TANKOU
Phonetics of voiced aspirates in Yemba (Dschang) |
AMPONG, YEGBLEMENAWO, ADJEI-FORSON & ARTHUR
Verbalising emotions against reality: a pragma-stylistic analysis of the Akan football commentary |
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11:30-12:00 |
McPHERSON, CISSÉ & ZHENG
Acquisition of tone among Bambara-speaking children |
KHARYTONAVA
(Some) dialectal variation in nominal systems in Kimbundu |
ABUBAKARI
Verbal alternations in Kusaal and related languages |
FRANICH
Glottalization, f0, and tonal variation in Medʉmba |
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| 12:00 – 1:00 | LUNCH | ||||
| 1:00 — 2:00 | PLENARY SESSION 3: Enoch ABOH
Are we learning enough from African languages? The case of Gbe (Kwa) |
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| 2:00 – 3:00 | ACAL Business Meeting | ||||
| 3:00 – 4:00 | CONCERT by Mt. Zion Choir, Odorkor, Ghana | ||||