Personal Directory Information
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Name:
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Salikoko S Mufwene
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Institution:
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University of Chicago
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Email:
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Homepage:
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http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mufwene/
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State and/or Country:
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IL
USA
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Linguistic Field(s):
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General Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
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Specialty:
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Language evolution (Not the evolution of language)
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Subject Language(s):
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English
Creole English, Sea Island
Creole English, Jamaican
Kituba
Lingala
Yansi
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Language Family(ies):
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Central Narrow Bantu H
Northwest Narrow Bantu B
Northwest Narrow Bantu C
English based
New English
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Selected Publications:
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Please visit my home page
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Announced on LINGUIST :
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African-American English
Creolization of Language and Culture
The Ecology of Language Evolution
Topics in African Linguistics. Papers from the XXI Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990
Polymorphous Linguistics
Language Evolution
Globalization and Language Vitality
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Reviewed on LINGUIST :
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Language Evolution
Polymorphous Linguistics
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Courses Taught:
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The eoclogy of language evolution (including Development of Creoles and Pidgins; Language endangerment);
Language and globalization;
Biological and cultural evolution;
Seminar on grammaticization;
Theories of Markedness; Structure of African-American English;
Dialect Voices in Literature;
Lexical semantics;
Field methods
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Dissertation Director * of:
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Variation within Lexical Categories
(Elaine Francis, Author)
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Academic Paper Abstract:
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Colonization, globalization and the plight of 'weak' languages
Colonization, population contacts, and the emergence of new language varieties: A response to Peter Trudgill
The ET Column: Globalization and the spread of English: what does it mean to be Anglophone?
Transmission, acquisition, parameter-setting, reanalysis, and language change
SLA AND THE EMERGENCE OF CREOLES
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* This information has been submitted by the dissertation author.
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