Berkeley linguists @ ACAL 57 & Bantoid 3

May 10, 2026

Several current and former UC Berkeley linguistics affiliates will be presenting at two co-located conferences at the University at Buffalo: the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) (May 21-23) and the Third Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics (Bantoid 3) (May 20-21). The full programs are available here.

  • Pius W. Akumbu (Visiting Scholar 2015-16): "Low tone anticipatory spreading in Babanki: A typological anomaly"
  • Pius W. Akumbu & Jeffrey Wills: "Concord and prefix interaction in Bantoid: The case of class 7 kV- and a-"
  • Matthew Faytak (PhD 2018) et al.: "Nasal aerodynamics of the Gbagyi syllable"
  • Larry M. Hyman & Daniel Ibrahim Kamara: "Noun Class and Number Marking in Limba (Thɔnkɔ Dialect)"
  • Rebecca Jarvis & Katherine Russell: "Assessing language shift in an urban West African context: Two investigations of Atchan language use"
  • Alice Lee-Kleinberg: "The semantics of definiteness in Amharic"
  • Florian Lionnet (PhD 2016): "Subtractive Morphology in Fanya (Bua, Chad)"
  • Nafisa Rashid: "An Insight into Accent Shifting through Vowel Monophthongization in the Ghanaian-American Singer Amaarae"
  • Nicholas Rolle (PhD 2018) [ACAL Plenary]: "Tone diachrony beyond tonogenesis: Reconstructing the tone melodies of Proto-Edoid (Niger-Congo)"
  • Nicholas Rolle: "The MPaNCA Project: Findings in the noun class morphomics of Bantoid"
  • Katherine Russell & Hannah Sande: "Two typologically distinct nasality systems in West Africa: A nasal and oral airflow study of Atchan (Kwa) and Guébie (Kru)"