This volume contains 16 papers selected from the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 39), hosted by the University of Georgia in Athens in April 2008. The papers are organized into sections on historical linguistics, morphology and syntax, phonology and phonetics, and sociolinguistics and stylistics. The complete table of contents showing the broad range of papers is available at http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/39/index.html along with abstracts and the complete papers in PDF format.

This volume has been published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, an imprint of Cascadilla Press. Proceedings from Cascadilla Proceedings Project are published in library binding. There is also free web access to all of the papers in the proceedings through our web site at http://lingref.com.