Yale Linguists present at ACAL

The 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, hosted by the University of Minnesota, featured presentations by several members of the department past and present. Talks from current department members included Augustina Owusu (Visiting Assistant Professor) and Lydia Newkirk (Lecturer) presenting “Habitualities and Abilites in Akan”, current PhD student Comfort Ahenkora presenting “The semantics of Ewe number marking” and faculty member Jason Shaw presenting “A pilot electromagnetic articulography study of Dangme”, joint work with undergraduate Kristen Kim and Simon Charwey (‘24 MFA). Additionally, current PhD students Olabode Adedeji and Ka-Fai Yip presented an online poster titled “Are splitting verbs in Yorùbá discontinuous heads?” and former Yale undergrad (‘14) Maria Kouneli presented “Reconstruction for Principle C: The view from Nilotic”.