The first ACAL conference was held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1970. The following is a list of all previous ACALs and any published proceedings volumes.
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ACAL Number |
Date |
Location |
Proceedings published? |
| 1 | 1970 | U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | C-W. Kim & H. Stahlke (eds). 1971. Papers in African Linguistics. Edmonton: Linguistic Research. |
| 2 | 26-27 March 1971 | UCLA | Talmy Givon (ed.) SAL Suppl. 2. (1971) and papers in SAL 2 (2-3). |
| 3 | 6-8 April 1972 | Indiana University | Third Annual Conference of African Linguistics. Indiana Univ. Publications, African Series, vol. 7 |
| 4 | 6-8 April 1973 | Queens College and Graduate Centre of CUNY | No proceedings |
| 5 | 29-31 March 1974 | Stanford University | Will Leben (ed.), 1974. SAL Suppl. 5. |
| 6 | 11-13 April 1975 | Ohio State Univ. | OSU WPL 19 and 20 |
| 7 | 1976 | University of Florida | Paul. F.A. Kotey & H. Der-Houssikian (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th Conference on African Linguistics. Columbia, SC: Hornbeam Press. |
| 8 | 1-3 April 1977 | UCLA | Mould & Thomas Hinnebusch (eds.), 1977. SAL Suppl. 7 (1977); and papers in SAL 9 (1, 2, 3) [1978]. |
| 9 | 1978 | Michigan State Univ. | No proceedings |
| 10 | 5-7 April 1979 | U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Eyamba Bokamba (ed.), 1984. Studies in the Linguistics Sciences 14 (2). |
| 11 | 10-12 April 1980 | Boston University | Ivan Dihoff (ed.), 1983. Current Approaches to African Linguistics. vol. 1. Foris. |
| 12 | 10-12 April 1981 | Stanford University | No proceedings. (Précis by Will Leben in SAL, Suppl. 8, 1981.) |
| 13 | 30 April – 2 May 1982 | U de Québec à Montréal | Jonathan Kaye, Hilda Koopman, Dominique Sportiche & Andre Dugas (eds.), 1983. Current Approaches to African Linguistics. vol. 2. Foris. |
| 14 | 7-10 April 1983 | Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison | Gerritt J. Dimmendaal (ed.), 1986. Current Approaches to African Linguistics. vol. 3. Foris. |
| 15 | 29-31 March 1984 | UCLA | No proceedings. (Précis ed. by R. Schuh, SAL Suppl. 9, 1985) |
| 16 | 21-23 March 1985 | Yale University | David Odden (ed.), 1987. Current Approaches to African Linguistics. vol. 4. Foris. |
| 17 | 3-5 April 1986 | Indiana University | Paul Newman & Robert D. Botne (eds.), 1989. Current Approaches to African Linguistics. vol. 5. Foris. |
| 18 | 23-26 April 1987 | Univ. de Québec à Montréal | Isabelle Haïk & Laurice Tuller (eds.), 1989. Current Approaches to African Linguistics. vol. 6. Foris. |
| 19 | 14-17 April 1988 | Boston University | John Hutchinson & Victor Manfredi (eds.), 1990. Current Approaches to African Linguistics. vol. 7. Foris. |
| 20 | 19-22 April 1989 | Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Eyamba Bokamba, R. Treece & D. Evans (eds.). 1989 & 1990. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 19.2 & 20.1. |
| 21 | 12-14 April 1990 | Univ. of Georgia | Salifu Mufwene & Lioba Moshi. 1993. Topics in African Linguistics. John Benjamins. |
| 22 | 15-19 July 1991 | Univ. of Nairobi | 22nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. publisher: Karibu Kenya. [It’s unclear from the online information whether this is a proceedings volume or an abstract booklet] |
| 23 | 26-29 March 1992 | Michigan State Univ. | No proceedings |
| 24 | 23-25 July 1993 | Ohio State Univ. | No proceedings |
| 25 | 25-27 March 1994 | Rutgers University | Akinbiyi Akinlabi (ed.), 1995. Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics. Africa World Press. |
| 26 | 23-25 March 1995 | UCLA | Ian Maddieson & Thomas J. Hinnebusch (eds.), 1998. Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa. Africa World Press. |
| 27 | 29-31 March 1996 | University of Florida | Paul F. A. Kotey (ed.), 1999. New Dimensions in African Linguistics and Languages. Africa World Press. |
| 28 | 18-22 July 1997 | Cornell University | Vicki Carstens & Frederick Parkinson (eds.), 2000. Advances in African Linguistics. Africa World Press. |
| 29 | 26-29 March 1998 | Yale University | No proceedings |
| 30 | July 1999 | Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | No proceedings |
| 31 | 2-5 March 2000 | Boston University | Chege Githiora, Heather Littlefield & Victor Manfredi (eds.), 2004. Kinyira Njira! Step Firmly on the Pathway! Africa World Press. |
| 32 | 23-25 March 2001 | UCal-Berkeley | No proceedings |
| 33 | 21-23 March 2002 | Ohio University, Athens, OH | John M. Mugane (ed.), 2003. Linguistic Typology and Representation of African Languages. Africa World Press. |
| 34 | 17-22 June 2003 (held in conjunction with WOCAL4) | Rutgers University | Proceedings of both WOCAL4 and ACAL 34 published in: Akinbiyi Akinlabi & O. Adesola (eds.), 2004. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of African Linguistics. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. |
| 35 | 2-4 April 2004 | Harvard University | John Mugane, John Hutchinson & Dee A. Worman (eds.), 2006. Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspectives. Cascadilla Press Online Proceedings Project. |
| 36 | 31 March – 3 April 2005 | Georgia Southern University | Olaoba F. Arasanyin & Michael A. Pemberton (eds.), 2006. Selected Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Shifting the Center of Africanism in Language Politics and Economic Globalization. Cascadilla Press Online Proceedings Project. |
| 37 | 6-9 April 2006 | Univ. of Oregon | Doris Payne & Jaime Peña (eds.), 2007. Selected Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Cascadilla Press Online Proceedings Project. |
| 38 | 22-25 March 2007 | Univ. of Florida | Masangu Matondo, Fiona McLaughlin & Eric Potsdam (eds.), 2009. Selected Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Linguistic Theory and African Language Documentation. Cascadilla Press Online Proceedings Project. |
| 39 | 17-20 April 2008 | University of Georgia | Akinloye Ojo & Lioba Moshi (eds.), 2009. Selected Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Linguistic Research and Languages in Africa. Cascadilla Press Online Proceedings Project. |
| 40 | 9-11 April 2009 | Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Eyamba G. Bokamba, Ryan K. Shosted & Bezza T. Ayalew (eds.), 2011. Selected Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics Today. Cascadilla Press Online Proceedings Project. |
| 41 | 6-8 May 2010 | Univ. of Toronto & Glendon College | Bruce Connell & Nicholas Rolle (eds.), 2012. Selected Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages in Contact. Cascadilla Press Online Proceedings Project. |
| 42 | 10-12 June 2011 | Univ. of Maryland | Michael R. Marlo, Nikki B. Adams, Christopher R. Green, Michelle Morrison & Tristan M. Purvis (eds.), 2012. Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages in Context. Cascadilla Press Online Proceedings Project. |
| 43 | 15-17 March 2012 | Tulane University | Olanike O. Orie & Karen W. Sanders (eds.), 2013. Selected Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Linguistic Interfaces in African Languages. Cascadilla Press Online Proceedings Project. |
| 44 | 7-10 March 2013 (held in conjunction with GURT 2013) | Georgetown University | Ruth Kramer, Elizabeth C. Zsiga, and One Tlale Boyer (eds.) 2015. Selected Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Cascadilla Online Proceedings Project.
Also a separate volume for GURT: Zsiga, Elizabeth, One Boyer and Ruth Kramer, eds. Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education. Georgetown University Press |
| 45 | 17-19 April 2014 | University of Kansas | Jason Kandybowicz, Travis Major, Harold Torrence, Philip T. Duncan (eds.) African linguistics on the prairie: Selected papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Language Science Press
Also, papers from the Endangered Languages workshop, Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence, eds. Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches, Oxford University Press. |
| 46 | 26-28 April 2015 | University of Oregon, Conference home page | Doris L. Payne, Sara Pacchiarotti, and Mokaya Bosire (eds.) Diversity in African Languages: Selected Papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Languages. Language Science Press. |
| 47 | 23-26 March, 2016 | University of California, Berkeley, Conference home page | Emily Clem, Peter Jenks, and Hannah Sande (eds.) Theory and Description in African Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Contemporary African Linguistics: Language Science Press. |
| 48 | 30 March-2 April, 2017 | Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana | Samson Lotven, Silvina Bongiovanni, Phillip Weirich, Robert Botne, Samuel Obeng (eds.) African linguistics across the disciplines: Selected papers from the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Contemporary African Linguistics: Language Science Press (online) |
| 49 | 22-25 March 2018 | Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, Conference home page | Galen Sibanda, Deo Ngonyani, Jonathan Choti, Ann Biersteker (eds.) Descriptive and theoretical approaches to African linguistics: Selected papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Contemporary African Linguistics: Language Science Press (online) |
| 50 | 22-25 May, 2019 | University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Conference home page | Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Lee Bickmore, Michael Cahill, Michael Diercks, Laura J Downing, James Essegbey, Katie Franich, Laura McPherson, Sharon Rose (eds.) Celebrating 50 years of ACAL: Selected papers from the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.Contemporary African Linguistics: Language Science Press (online) |
| 51-52 | 8-10 April, 2021 | University of Florida, Conference home page | Papers for proceedings are being edited, and will appear in Contemporary African Linguistics: Language Science Press (online) |
| 53 | 7-9 April, 2022 | University of California-San Diego, Conference home page | Papers for proceedings are being edited, and will appear in Contemporary African Linguistics: Language Science Press (online) |
| 54 | 12-14 June, 2023 | University of Connecticut, Conference home page | Papers for proceedings are being edited, and will appear in Contemporary African Linguistics: Language Science Press (online) |