The 53nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) will take place virtually on April 7-9, hosted by The Department of Linguistics at the University of California San Diego, and UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference with talks by:

• Vicki Carstens and Peter Muriungi. Addressee Agreement in Kiitharaka and Speech Act Projection Theory
• Penelope Daniel. Deriving SOVX word order in Mandinka
• Vicki Carstens. Preverbal subjects and labeling in Nguni

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