Salikoko Mufwene

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Salikoko Mufwene is affiliated with the following schools: University of Yaoundé, University of Chicago, University of Georgia

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Salikoko Mufwene's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Chicago
Masters Linguistics University of Chicago
Bachelors Linguistics University of Yaoundé

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According to Wikipedia, Salikoko Mufwene is a linguist born in Mbaya-Lareme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago. Mufwene was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.

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The ecology of language evolution (2001) (985)
The founder principle in creole genesis (1996) (385)
Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change (2008) (250)
Pidgin and Creole Languages (2001) (175)
Language Birth and Death (2004) (158)
African-American English (2001) (117)
Africanisms in Afro-American language varieties (1995) (113)
Transfer and the Substrate Hypothesis in Creolistics (1990) (98)
Globalization, Global English, and World English(es): Myths and Facts (2010) (92)
Creolization is a social, not a structural, process (2001) (90)
Competition and Selection in Language Evolution (2002) (86)
Language vitality: The weak theoretical underpinnings of what can be an exciting research area (2017) (84)
Colonisation , Globalisation , and the Future of Languages in the Twenty-first Century (2002) (79)
Jargons, pidgins, creoles, and koines: What are they? (1997) (74)
New Englishes and criteria for naming them (1994) (74)
More than a mood or an attitude: Discourse and verbal genres in African-American culture (1998) (72)
Population Movements and Contacts in Language Evolution (2008) (69)
The Universalist and Substrate Hypotheses Complement One Another (1986) (66)
English around the World: Sociolinguistic Perspectives (1993) (63)
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LANGUAGE USE: IDEOLOGY AND SO-CALLED OBSCENITY (2013) (59)
Observations on Time Reference in Jamaican and Guyanese Creoles (1983) (57)
Some aspects of African-American vernacular English phonology (2013) (56)
Ideology and facts on African American English (1992) (54)
African-American English : Structure, History and Use (2013) (46)
Colonization, globalization and the plight of ‘weak’ languages (2002) (45)
Pidgins, Creoles, Typology, and Markedness (1991) (44)
Globalization and language vitality : perspectives from Africa (2008) (44)
Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America (2014) (44)
The Ecology of Language Evolution. Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact. (2001) (42)
SLA AND THE EMERGENCE OF CREOLES (2010) (38)
2. What is African American English (2001) (37)
Genetic linguistics and genetic creolistics: A Response to Sarah G. Thomason’s “Creoles and Genetic Relationships” (2003) (37)
Number Delimitation in Gullah (1986) (37)
A cost-and-benefit approach to language loss (2016) (36)
The ecology of Gullah's survival (1997) (36)
The Africanness of counterlanguage among Afro-Americans (1993) (34)
LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT : WHAT HAVE PRIDE AND PRESTIGE GOT TO DO WITH IT ? (2001) (33)
Co-existent systems in African-American vernacular English (2013) (33)
The sociolinguistic history of the Peranakans: What it tells us about 'creolization' (2007) (33)
Why Grammars are Not Monolithic (1992) (32)
The creole origins of African-American vernacular English: evidence from copula absence (2013) (32)
Review of From French to Creole: The development of new vernaculars in the French colonial world (2002) (31)
What it Means When We Say 'Creole:' an Interview with Salikoko S. Mufwene (2005) (31)
Is Gullah Decreolizing? A Comparison of a Speech Sample of the 1930s with a Sample of the 1980s (1991) (31)
Stativity and the progressive (1984) (30)
The development of American Englishes (1996) (29)
ON THE SO-CALLED 'INFINITIVE' IN ATLANTIC CREOLES* (1989) (29)
How African Is Gullah, and Why ? (1987) (28)
Pidgins and Creoles (1990) (28)
Colonization, Globalization and Language Vitality in Africa: An Introduction (2008) (27)
How Languages Die (2006) (26)
The sentence in African-American vernacular English (2013) (26)
The indigenization of English in North America (2009) (26)
Equivocal Structures in Some Gullah Complex Sentences (1989) (25)
Individuals, populations, and timespace: Perspectives on the ecology of language revisited (2017) (24)
Restrictive Relativization in Gullah (1986) (21)
What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical Linguistics (1998) (21)
Language as technology: Some questions that evolutionary linguistics should address (2013) (21)
Creoles and universal grammar (1990) (21)
Complexity in Language: Developmental and evolutionary perspectives (2017) (20)
The Emergence of Complexity in Language: An Evolutionary Perspective (2013) (20)
The Origins and the Evolution of Language (2013) (20)
Number, countability and markedness in Lingala LI/-MA- noun class (1980) (18)
The Ecology of Language Evolution: The legitimate and illegitimate offspring of English (1997) (18)
Some Reasons Why Gullah is not Dying Yet (1991) (18)
Globalization and the Myth of Killer Languages: What’s Really Going On? (2008) (18)
Creoles, ecologie sociale, evolution linguistique : cours donnes au college de France dorant l'automne 2003 (2001) (18)
Colonization, indigenization, and the differential evolution of English: Some ecological perspectives (2015) (17)
The ET Column: Globalization and the spread of English: what does it mean to be Anglophone? (2010) (17)
The role of mother-tongue schooling in eradicating poverty: A response to Language and poverty (2010) (17)
Colonization, population contacts, and the emergence of new language varieties: A response to Peter Trudgill (2008) (17)
Why Study Pidgins and Creoles (1988) (17)
Modeling the Emergence of Contact Languages (2015) (17)
The case was never closed: McWhorter misinterprets the ecological approach to the emergence of creoles (2014) (16)
Dictionaries and Proper Names (1988) (16)
Language Contact, Evolution, and Death: How Ecology Rolls the Dice (2000) (16)
La fonction et les formes reflechies dans le mauricien et le haitien (2000) (16)
Polymorphous Linguistics: Jim McCawley's Legacy (2005) (16)
Pidgin-English du Cameroun: Description linguistique et sociolinguistique (1993) (15)
Papers from the Twelfth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society : April 23-25, 1976 (1976) (14)
Aspect and predicate phrases in African-American vernacular English (2013) (13)
Contact Languages in the Bantu Area (2003) (13)
Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White. Edited by Michael B. Montgomery and Guy Bailey (1987) (13)
Restructuring, hybridization, and complexity in language evolution (2009) (13)
A Reference on Gullah@@@A Syntactic Analysis of Sea Island Creole (1995) (12)
Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question (2014) (12)
English Pidgins: Form and Function. (1988) (12)
Topics in African linguistics (1995) (12)
Word from the hood: the lexicon of African-American vernacular English (2013) (11)
Language Endangerment : An Embarrassment for Linguistics (2009) (11)
The structure of the noun phrase in African-American vernacular English (2013) (11)
The language bioprogram hypothesis, creole studies, and linguistic theory (1984) (11)
Multilingualism in Linguistic History: Creolization and Indigenization (2008) (11)
Time Reference in Kikongo-Kituba (1990) (10)
Restructuring, Feature Selection, and Markedness: From Kimanyanga to Kituba (1994) (10)
The ecology of language: New imperatives in linguistics curricula (1998) (10)
Some Explanations that Strike Me as Incomplete (1989) (10)
English in the Southern United States: The shared ancestry of African-American and American-White Southern Englishes: some speculations dictated by history (2003) (10)
Papers from the Parasession on Diachronic Syntax, April 22, 1976 (1976) (9)
The Manifold Obligations of the Dictionary to its Users (2012) (9)
The linguistic significance of African proper names in Gullah (1985) (9)
Department of Linguistics (2001) (8)
Pidgins and creoles: vol. 1, Theory and structure; vol. 2, Reference survey by John Holm (review) (2015) (8)
Formal Evidence of Pidginization/Creolization in Kituba (1988) (8)
Complexity in language: A multifaceted phenomenon (2017) (8)
Colonial, Hypermetropic, And Wishful Linguistics (1989) (7)
The Emergence of Creoles and Language Change (2015) (7)
Competition and Selection in the Development of American Englishes (2003) (7)
On the Status of Auxiliary Verbs in Gullah (1994) (7)
An Issue on Predicate-Clefting: Evidence from Atlantic Creoles and African Languages (1987) (7)
Serialization and Subordination in Gullah: Toward a Definition of Serialization (1990) (7)
The Evolution of Language: Hints from Creoles and Pidgins (2009) (7)
Accountability in Descriptions of Creoles (1999) (7)
International encyclopedia of linguistics. 4 vols. Edited by William Bright (1994) (7)
Les créoles : de nouvelles variétés indo-européennes désavouées? (2007) (6)
Simplicity and Complexity in Creoles and Pidgins: What’s the Metric? (2013) (6)
Creoles and pidgins (2009) (6)
SOUTH AFRICAN INDIAN ENGLISH (1994) (6)
The Comparability of New‐Dialect Formation and Creole Development (2006) (6)
THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY: (2019) (5)
Starting on the Wrong Foot (1988) (5)
Atlantic American societies: From Columbus through abolition 1492-1888. Edited by Alan L. Karras and J. R. McNeill (1994) (5)
Introduction: Understanding Speech Continua (1997) (4)
Scope of Negation and Focus in Gullah (1993) (4)
Myths of Globalization: What African Demolinguistics Reveals (2008) (4)
English as a lingua franca: myths and facts (2012) (4)
The pragmatics of kinship terms in Kituba (1988) (4)
Some bantu ways of talking: The case of kinship vocabularies (1985) (4)
English as a Contact Language: Driving forces in English contact linguistics (2013) (4)
Latin America : A Linguistic Curiosity from the Point of View of Colonization and the Ensuing Language Contacts (2014) (4)
L'émergence des parlers créoles et l'évolution des langues romanes : faits, mythes et idéologies (2015) (4)
Race, Racialism, and the Study K3 of Language Evolution in America (2008) (4)
Grammaticization is Part of the Development of Creoles (2008) (3)
Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese Creole (1986) (3)
Do Linguists Need Economics and Economists Linguistics? (2020) (3)
The legacy of Braj B. Kachru through World Englishes and culture wars (2019) (3)
Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction (1997) (3)
Language Evolution: An Ecological Perspective (2011) (3)
"Socio-cultural transmission" in language evolution?: Comment on "Rethinking [the] foundations of language from a multidisciplinary perspective" by Tao Gong, Lan Shuai, & Yicheng Wu. (2018) (3)
Genèse de population et genèse de langue (1994) (3)
Créoles (2021) (3)
Language Genesis and Human Evolution (1991) (2)
How many bes are there in English (2005) (2)
The English origins of African American Vernacular English (2014) (2)
Investigating what the words father and mother mean (1983) (2)
The Emergence of African American English (2015) (2)
Beyond the Meme (2019) (2)
Parsing the Evolution of Language (2008) (2)
Some considerations on the new lexeme beau in Lingala (1977) (2)
It’s still worth theorizing on LEL, despite the heterogeneity and complexity of the processes (Response to commentators) (2017) (2)
Language as technology (2013) (2)
Creoles and pidgins don’t have inadequate lexica: A response to Peter Mühlhäusler (2015) (2)
An ecological account of language evolution! Way to go! Commentary on "Modeling the cultural evolution of language" by Luc Steels. (2011) (2)
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization: Series editor's foreword (2010) (2)
Decolonial linguistics as paradigm shift (2020) (2)
The Emergence of African American English Monogenetic or Polygenetic? With or Without “Decreolization”? Under How Much Substrate Influence? (2015) (2)
Indigénisation, français en Afrique et normes : quelques réflexions (1998) (2)
Comparaison syntaxique du Créole réunionnais et du Français. By Pierre Cellier (1987) (2)
Namhee Lee, Lisa Mikesell, Anna Dina L. Joacquin, Andrea W. Mates, and John H. Schumann: The Interactional Instinct: The Evolution and Acquisition of Language. (2012) (2)
Albert Valdman on the development of creoles (2006) (2)
Gullah's Development: Myth and Sociohistorical Evidence (1997) (2)
Transmission, acquisition, parameter-setting, reanalysis, and language change (2011) (2)
What African Linguistics Can Contribute to Evolutionary Linguistics (2013) (2)
A reconsideration of Lingala temporal inflections (2010) (2)
Reflections on World Englishes (2006) (2)
ANALOGS ANYWHERE: THE FLOW OF HIGHWAY TRAFFIC AND LANGUAGE EVOLUTION * (2003) (2)
An Issue on Predicate-CIe fting: Evidence from Atlantic Creoles (1982) (1)
A Complexity View of Ontogeny as a Window on Phylogeny (2017) (1)
Linguistic change under contact conditions. Edited by Jacek Fisiak (1999) (1)
How Bantu is Kiyansi (2006) (1)
Topics in African Linguistics: Papers from the XXI Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990 (1993) (1)
The Reviewer Responds (1992) (1)
Are There Possessive Pronouns in Atlantic Creoles (1992) (1)
Culture : la langue française doit nourrir son homme (2011) (1)
ENGLISH IN THE BLACK DIASPORA: DEVELOPMENT AND IDENTITY (2001) (1)
Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory. Charles Stewart (2009) (1)
Pragmatics of Elusive Languages. (1992) (1)
McCawley’s legacy: a response to Pieter A.M. Seuren (2007) (1)
L'émergence des parlers créoles et l'évolution des langues romanes (2016) (1)
Les créoles. L'état de notre savoir (1999) (1)
"Semantic field" versus "semantic class" (1979) (1)
How Bantu is Kiyansi?: A re-examination of its verbal inflections (2006) (1)
From Genetic Creolistics to Genetic Linguistics : Lessons We Should Not Miss ! (2009) (1)
"Global English" vs. "English as a Global Language"(Theme: What is Global English Communicative Competence?: A Reconsideration of English Education in Japan) (2008) (1)
Dynamics of Language Contact: Series editor's foreword (2003) (0)
Language Contact and Grammatical Change: Series editor's foreword (2005) (0)
Linguistics: Generative Studies on Creole Languages. Pieter Muysken (1982) (0)
Linguistics: Language, Society, and Paleoculture: Essays by Edgar C. Polomé. Anwar S. Dil (1984) (0)
Genetic Creolistics as Part of Evolutionary Linguistics (2020) (0)
Language Shift (2020) (0)
Exceptionalizing genetic creolistics: a rejoinder to Mikael Parkvall and Bart Jacobs on the emergence of Berbice Dutch (2023) (0)
A new bibliography of writings on varieties of English 1984-1992/1993. Compiled by Beat Glauser, Edgar W. Schneider, and Manfred Görlach (1996) (0)
Very useful, but with some dificiencies (1992) (0)
1. Latin America: A Linguistic Curiosity from the Point of View of Colonization and the Ensuing Language Contacts (2019) (0)
POPULATION MOVEMENTS AND CONTACTS IN LANGUAGE EVOLUTION 1 (2007) (0)
The Editor's Department (2015) (0)
McCawley's legacy: a response to (2007) (0)
Acts of Meaning (1992) (0)
Issues in Creole lingusitics (1990) (0)
Modeling the emergence of contact languages Supporting Information (2015) (0)
Complexity in Speech: Teasing Apart Culture and Cognition (2017) (0)
Linguistic Hybridization in the Emergence of Creoles (2022) (0)
THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS (2012) (0)
What African Linguistics CanContribute to Evolutionary Linguistics (2013) (0)
Bibliographie des études créoles: Langues, cultures, sociétés. Compiled by Marie-Christine Hazaël-Massieux, in collaboration with Robert Chauden-son and Didier de Robillard (1993) (0)
Guy Hazaël-Massieux 10 April 1936 - 5 July 1993 (1994) (0)
Creoles and creolization (2010) (0)
Diglossia and Language Contact: Series editor’s foreword (2014) (0)
From Genetic Creolistics to Historical Dialectology: Ecological and Population Genetics Perspectives (2000) (0)
John Russell Rickford & Russell John Rickford, Spoken soul: The story of Black English. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000, xii + 267 pp. Hb. $24.95. (2001) (0)
Population Structure and the Emergence of World Englishes (2019) (0)
The Ecology of Language Evolution: Introduction (2001) (0)
Population Movements, Language Contact, Linguistic Diversity, Etc. (2018) (0)
The Ecology of Language Evolution: References (2001) (0)
Does Japan need a separate English norm?(Theme: What is Global English Communicative Competence?: A Reconsideration of English Education in Japan) (2008) (0)
English(es): Myths and Facts (2010) (0)
Conclusions: the big picture (2001) (0)
Chapter 18. Pidgins and Creoles (2008) (0)
Tribute to a Scholar (2019) (0)
Why this return to a biological approach ? (2006) (0)
William J. Samarin (2020) (0)
Sentential complementation in Sranan: On the formation of an English-based creole language. By Ingo Plag (1996) (0)
Jacqueline Knörr & Wilson Trajano Filho (eds.), Creolization and pidginization in contexts of postcolonial diversity: Language, culture, identity. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Pp. xiii, 387. Hb. €127. (2020) (0)
Perspectives on the ecology of language revisited (2017) (0)
RESPONSE to Croft (2010) (0)
The Bilingual Child: Series editor's foreword (2007) (0)
A Linguistic Geography of Africa: Series editor's foreword (2007) (0)
The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese: Series editor's foreword (2009) (0)
Sound language policies must be consistent with natural language evolution (2023) (0)
Peter L. Patrick, Urban Jamaican Creole: variation in the mesolect. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999. Pp. xx+329. (2001) (0)
Approaches to Change in American English (2003) (0)
Review : On the Origins of AAVE A Rejoinder to Traute Ewers (1998) (0)
Book Reviews : The Ecology of Language Evolution (2002) (0)
Jargons, pidgins, creoles, and koines (1997) (0)
Alexander Kautzsch. 2002. The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English: An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources (2004) (0)
The Ecology of Language Evolution: The development of American Englishes: factoring contact in and the social bias out (2001) (0)
Creole Studies near the End of the Twentieth Century@@@Africanisms in Afro-American Language Varieties (1994) (0)
Kinship terms (and related honorifics): An issue in bilingual lexicography (1986) (0)
Linguistics: New Englishes. John B. Pride, ed (1983) (0)
Global English and World Englishes From an Evolutionary Perspective: A Rejoinder to Anna Kristina Hultgren (2020) (0)
System in Black language. By David Sutcliffe with John Figueroa (1995) (0)
WHAT DWIGHT L. BOLINGER PROBABLY WOULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO EVOLUTIONARY LINGUISTICS (2014) (0)
LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY: The African Heritage of American English. Joseph E. Holloway and Winifred K. Vass (1994) (0)
Linguistics: Theory and Method in Lexicography: Western and Non‐Western Perspectives. Ladislav Zgusta, ed (1983) (0)
Postcolonial English: Series editor's foreword (2007) (0)
New departures in linguistics. Edited by George Wolf (1994) (0)
Pidgins and creoles. By Loreto Todd (1992) (0)
Gullah: morphology and syntax (2020) (0)
Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics. By Sarah Grey Thomason and Terrence Kaufman (1990) (0)
EDITOR'S NOTE (2006) (0)
The Ecology of Language Evolution: Past and recent population movements in Africa: their impact on its linguistic landscape (2001) (0)
A grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole , by Silvia Kouwenberg (1998) (0)
The Ecology of Language Evolution: The Founder Principle in the development of creoles (2001) (0)
Language Adaptation. FLORIAN COULMAS, ed (1992) (0)
Annotated bibliography of Southern American English. By James B. McMillan and Michael B. Montgomery (1990) (0)
Robert Chaudenson, 1937–2020 (2020) (0)
Créoles et enseignement du français. Français, créolisation, créoles et français marginaux: Problèmes d'apprentissage, d'enseignement des langues et d'aménagement linguistique dans les espaces créolophones. By Robert Chaudenson (1991) (0)
CAHIERS DE LINGUISTIQUE Revue de sociolinguistique et de sociologie de Ia langue fran ~ aise Construction des connaissances sociolinguistiques Du terrain au positionnement theorique (2012) (0)
Les créoles : L'état de notre savoir : L'ethnolinguistique (1999) (0)
Des ponts interdisciplinaires et interlangagiers au sujet de la genèse des créoles (1999) (0)
La syntaxe des relatives en français@@@La syntaxe des relatives en francais (1990) (0)
Are there Modal-Auxiliaries in Lingala? in Papers from the Fifteenth Regional Meeting Chicago Linguistic Society. (1979) (0)
The Ecology of Language Evolution: What research on the development of creoles can contribute to genetic linguistics (2001) (0)

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