African Linguistics School
African Linguistics School
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The African Linguistics School (ALS) is a two-week institute which brings the latest work in core areas of linguistics to students from African universities. The areas of focus are syntax, semantics, phonology, sociolinguistics and phonetic fieldwork.
NEWS!
An edited book Crossdisciplinary approaches to information structure in Niger-Congo languages from the ALS6 Workshop on Information Structure has been accepted and will be published with Language Science Press in the series Contemporary African Linguistics
ALS 8 will be held in summer 2026 at the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
Local host: Prof. Amani Lusekelo
More information will be provided when available.
Congratulations to the two outstanding ALS7 students selected to attend the
Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute at the University of Oregon in summer 2025:
Fridah Nickèse Gam à Belek (Cameroon)
Alain Hien (Burkina Faso)
Funding generously provided by Yale University
ALS 7 was held at the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana July 22 - August 2, 2024
71 students were selected and attended from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania and Togo, as well as Germany and the United States
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