The School: During the summer of 2011, there will be a two week summer school that focuses on the study of African languages and linguistic theory. Like the first African Linguistics School held in Accra in 2009, this school aims at offering African students the possibility of becoming familiar with new advances in linguistic description and theory. The school will be held in Centre Songhaï, Porto-Novo, Rep. of Benin, and will center around the following linguistic domains: Syntax, Phonology, Semantics, Languages in Contact, Field Methods, and Sign Language.

Dates: July 17th-July 30th, 2011

Location: Centre Songhaï, Porto-Novo, Rep. of Benin

 
Organizers: 
	      Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam), 
	      Akin Akinlabi (Rutgers),
	      Chris Collins (NYU),
	      John Victor Singler (NYU)

 
 
 
Useful Links: 
 
            	(a) Ling Buzz (b) ACLC Working Papers (c) ULCL Working Papers(d) EGG (e) NYU Department of Linguistics 
 

Contact: africanlinguisticsschool@gmail.com