For the thirty third consecutive year, the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided the major forum for the discussion of linguistic data geared towards understanding how African languages are constituted, acquired, and used.

This volume represents a selection of 25 peer-reviewed papers from the 33rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) held in March 2002 at Ohio University in Athens. The papers cover language acquisition, syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, as well as language use and function in Africa making proposals concerning the proper analysis and representation of linguistic information.

ABOUT THE EDITOR
John M. Mugane is assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio University, Athens. He is the President of the African Language Teachers Association and coordinator of the Critical Language Program at Ohio University. He is the author of A Paradigmatic Grammar of Gikuyu and Tujifunze Kiswahili ‘Let’s Learn Swahili’ with accompanying online African Language learning resources located at http://www.aramati.com.

CATEGORY
Linguistics, Literature/AFRICA