{"id":469,"date":"2024-02-21T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T19:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/?page_id=469"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:01:37","slug":"african-linguistics-club","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/african-linguistics-club\/","title":{"rendered":"African Linguistics Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the African Linguistics Club! <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/lislab\/files\/2024\/02\/afrika2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-470\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are on hiatus during AY 2025-2026. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Past events<\/h3>\n<h4><b>Spring 2025<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Thursday, March 27 &#8211; Panel discussion on Definiteness in Akan featuring Rebecca Bonney (BU Linguistics) and Augustina Owusu (Yale linguistics)<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, April 17 &#8211; Nikky Agba (BU African Studies Center) led an introduction to the Igbo language<\/p>\n<h4><b>Fall 2024<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Friday, October 18 &#8211; Elizabeth Coppock and Ousmane Cisse, Reduplicated Distributivity in Mandinka<\/p>\n<p>Friday, December 6 &#8211;\u00a0 Z<span>oliswa Mali and Neil Myler, Causatives and Applicatives in isiXhosa<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Spring 2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Monday, March 5: Fallou Ngom and Ousmane Cisse on Ajami script<\/p>\n<p>Monday, April 29: Jackson Kellogg: Word- and phrase-level prosodic structure in Amharic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the African Linguistics Club! We are on hiatus during AY 2025-2026. Stay tuned! &nbsp; Past events Spring 2025 Thursday, March 27 &#8211; Panel discussion on Definiteness in Akan featuring Rebecca Bonney (BU Linguistics) and Augustina Owusu (Yale linguistics) Thursday, April 17 &#8211; Nikky Agba (BU African Studies Center) led an introduction to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14844,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}