Pushing the boundaries: Selected papers from the 51-52 Annual Conference on African Linguistics

James Essegbey is Professor of African Languages and Linguistics at theUniversity of Florida, Gainesville. His research interests include the description and documentation of endangered languages, particularly the Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM-Kwa) languages that are spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin. Essegbey also investigates the syntax and semantics of verbs in the Gbe languages of West Africa.

Brent Henderson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Florida. His research focuses on the syntax and morphology of Bantu languages and the description of Chimiini, an endangered language of Somalia.

Fiona McLaughlin is professor of Linguistics and African Languages at the University of Florida. She works on the sociolinguistics of language contact in urban Africa and the phonology and morphology of the Atlantic languages, especially Wolof, Sereer and Pulaar. She has taught at universities in Niger and Senegal and is former director of the West African Research Center in Dakar.

Michael Diercks is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College. His research focuses on the morphosyntax of East African languages. He is part of an ongoing project documenting four Luyia languages spoken in Western Kenya, and works on syntactic theory having to do with licensing of noun phrases, agreement, and the intersection of information structure and syntax.