African Linguistics Club

Welcome to the African Linguistics Club!

We are on hiatus during AY 2025-2026. Stay tuned!

Thursday, March 27 – Panel discussion on Definiteness in Akan featuring Rebecca Bonney (BU Linguistics) and Augustina Owusu (Yale linguistics)

Thursday, April 17 – Nikky Agba (BU African Studies Center) led an introduction to the Igbo language

Friday, October 18 – Elizabeth Coppock and Ousmane Cisse, Reduplicated Distributivity in Mandinka

Friday, December 6 – Zoliswa Mali and Neil Myler, Causatives and Applicatives in isiXhosa

Monday, March 5: Fallou Ngom and Ousmane Cisse on Ajami script

Monday, April 29: Jackson Kellogg: Word- and phrase-level prosodic structure in Amharic