Several Yale linguists have presented at the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57), held by The University at Buffalo on May 21–23, 2026.
- Augustina Owusu (former Visiting Assistant Professor and Presidential Fellow, 2024-2025) gave a plenary speech: “In-Between Stages: The Grammaticalization of the Akan Definite Determiner nó”.
- Milena Šereikaitė (former postdoc, 2020-2022) gave a talk: “Impersonals in Ndebele”
- Olabode Adedeji (PhD student, 3rd year) & Ka-Fai Yip (recent PhD alumnus 2026) gave two joint talks: “A partial Copy Deletion account of non-agreeing resumptive pronouns in Yorùbá” - “Defending a quantifier-particle approach to Yorùbá exclusives”
- Comfort Ahenkorah (PhD candidate, 6th year) gave a poster presentation: “External and Internal event plurality: The case of reduplication in Akan”