Welcome to the Association of Contemporary African Linguistics!
The Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) was first convened in 1970 and has since been held every year at various sites throughout North America. The affiliated Association of Contemporary African Linguistics, founded in 2013 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity, has the same mission: to advance and sustain the linguistic study of African languages. The Association (with the same acronym) seeks to continue and provide stability to that tradition and to the conference itself. The Association solicits support from ACAL’s attendees to guarantee the conference’s stability into the future.
We as an organization welcome all members from any country or background.
JOIN ACAL! Official ACAL membership is required for you to give a paper at the annual ACAL conference, lets you see contact information and interests of other ACAL members, and helps support African linguistics. See the ACAL Membership tab.
Selected Proceedings of ACAL conferences are currently published through Language Science Press. You can download – for free – papers from past conference proceedings beginning with ACAL 45, as well as other African books, at the Contemporary African Linguistics site. You can also find links to these as well as information about proceedings before ACAL 45 proceedings at our Past Conferences tab.