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'''Salikoko Mufwene''' is a linguist born in Mbaya-Lareme in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]. He is the Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of [[linguistics]] at the [[University of Chicago]]. He has worked extensively on the development of [[creole language]]s, as well as on [[African American Vernacular English]]. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1979.
'''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]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Faculty {{!}} Linguistics |url=https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/people/profiles |access-date=2022-03-15 |website=linguistics.uchicago.edu}}</ref> Mufwene was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2022 | title=The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022 }}</ref>


== Education and career ==
==Publications==
Mufwene received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1979.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alumni {{!}} Linguistics |url=https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/people/alumni |access-date=2022-03-15 |website=linguistics.uchicago.edu}}</ref>
===Articles===

*{{cite journal
He has worked extensively on the development of [[creole language]]s, especially [[Gullah language|Gullah]] and [[Jamaican Patois|Jamaican Creole]], on the [[morphosyntax]] of [[Bantu languages]], especially [[Kituba language|Kituba]], [[Lingala]], and [[Kiyansi]] (the last of which he speaks natively<ref>{{cite web | url=http://mufwene.uchicago.edu/interviewWithRobert.html | title=Focus on Creolist: Salikoko S. Mufwene Mufwene | date=2001 | accessdate=7 November 2014 | author=Chaudenson, Robert}}</ref>), and on [[African American Vernacular English]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/faculty/mufwene | title=Salikoko S. Mufwene | publisher=The University of Chicago Department of Linguistics | accessdate=7 November 2014 | archive-date=7 November 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107222331/https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/faculty/mufwene | url-status=dead }}</ref> He has also published several articles and chapters about [[Evolutionary linguistics|language evolution]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Salikoko S. Mufwene |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T4pWyj0AAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-03-15 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref>
|last=Mufwene

|first=Salikoko
He is one of the leading figures in research pertaining to the ecology of language, a school of thought that encourages a holistic approach of language studies and combines linguistics with different research fields such as sociology, history, cognitive sciences and biology. One of his main claims (Mufwene 2008) is that languages behave to a certain extent like viruses, and that many analogies can be drawn between the ways they both come to existence, reproduce, evolve, and eventually may go extinct.
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene

|year=1977
== Honors and distinctions ==
|title=Some considerations on the new lexeme ''beau'' in [[Lingala language|Lingala]]

|journal=Studies in African Linguistics
In 2003, Mufwene was awarded a Médaille du Collège de France
|volume=8

|pages=81–95
In 2018, Mufwene was inducted as a [[Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America|Fellow]] of the [[Linguistic Society of America]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Introducing the LSA Fellows, Class of 2018 |url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2017/07/31/introducing-lsa-fellows-class-2018 |access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref>
}}

*{{cite journal
In 2022, Mufwene was elected as a fellow to the American Philosophical Society
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1978
|title=A reconsideration of [[Lingala language|Lingala]] temporal inflections
|journal=Studies in African Linguistics
|volume=9
|pages=91–105
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1979
|title=[[Lingala language|Lingala]] and English translations within the postulated domain 'opening'
|journal=General Linguistics
|volume=19
|pages=47–68
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1980
|title=Number, countability and markedness in [[Lingala language|Lingala]] ''li-/ma-'' noun class
|journal=Linguistics
|volume=18
|issue=1
|pages=119–152
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1980
|title='Prototype' and 'kin-class'
|journal=Anthropological Linguistics
|volume=22
|pages=29–41
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1983
|title=Investigating what the words ''father'' and ''mother'' mean
|journal=Language and Communication
|volume=3
|issue=3
|pages=245–269
|doi=10.1016/0271-5309(83)90004-6
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1983
|title=Observations on time reference in Jamaican and Guyanese Creoles
|journal=BaShiru
|volume=11
|issue=2
|pages=54–76
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1984
|title=Observations on time reference in Jamaican and Guyanese Creoles<!-- revised from Mufwene (1983) in BaShiru-->
|journal=English World-Wide
|volume=4
|pages=199–229
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1984
|title=The manifold obligations of the dictionary to its users
|journal=Dictionaries
|volume=6
|pages=1–30
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1985
|title=Some Bantu ways of talking: The case of kinship vocabularies
|journal=Language Sciences
|volume=7
|issue=2
|pages=271–282
|doi=10.1016/S0388-0001(85)80002-4
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1985
|title=The linguistic significance of African proper names in Gullah
|journal=New West-Indian Guide
|volume=59
|pages=146–166
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1986
|title=Number delimitation in Gullah
|journal=American Speech
|volume=61
|pages=31–60
|doi=10.2307/454708
|jstor=454708
|issue=1
|publisher=Duke University Press
}}
*{{cite journal
|doi=10.1075/jpcl.1.1.03muf
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1986
|title=Restrictive relativization in Gullah
|journal=Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
|volume=1
|pages=1–31
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|last2=Gilman
|first2=Charles
|year=1987
|title=How African is Gullah and why?
|journal=American Speech
|volume=62
|pages=120–139
|doi=10.2307/455274
|jstor=455274
|issue=2
|publisher=Duke University Press
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1987
|title=Les langues créoles peuvent-elles être définies sans allusion à leur histoire?
|journal=Etudes Créoles
|volume=9
|pages=135–150
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1988
|title=Dictionaries and proper names
|journal=International Journal of Lexicography
|volume=1
|issue=3
|pages=268–283
|doi=10.1093/ijl/1.3.268
}}
*{{cite journal
|doi=10.1515/jall.1988.10.1.33
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1988
|title=Formal evidence of pidginization/creolization in [[Kituba language|Kituba]]
|journal=Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
|volume=10
|pages=33–51
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1988
|title=The pragmatics of kinship terms in [[Kituba language|Kituba]]
|journal=Multilingua
|volume=7
|pages=441–453
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1988
|title=English pidgins: Form and function
|journal=World Englishes
|volume=7
|issue=3
|pages=255–267
|doi=10.1111/j.1467-971X.1988.tb00236.x
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1988
|title=The small ''pro'' and inflectional morphology
|journal=Linguistic Analysis
|volume=18
|pages=235–242
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|last2=Dijkhoff
|first2=Marta
|year=1989
|title=On the so-called 'infinitive' in Atlantic creoles
|journal=Lingua
|volume=77
|issue=3-4
|pages=297–330
|doi=10.1016/0024-3841(89)90043-0
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1989
|title=Equivocal structures in some Gullah complex sentences
|journal=American Speech
|volume=64
|pages=304–326
|doi=10.2307/455723
|jstor=455723
|issue=4
|publisher=Duke University Press
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1989
|title=La créolisation en bantou: les cas du kituba, du lingala urbain, et du swahili du Shaba
|journal=Etudes Créoles
|volume=12
|pages=74–106
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1990
|title=Transfer and the substrate hypothesis in creolistics
|journal=Studies in Second Language Acquisition
|volume=12
|pages=1–23
|doi=10.1017/S0272263100008718
}}
*{{cite journal
|doi=10.1515/ling.1990.28.4.783
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1990
|title=Creoles and Universal Grammar
|journal=Linguistics
|volume=28
|issue=4
|pages=783–787
}}
*{{cite journal
|doi=10.1075/eww.12.2.04muf
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1991
|title=Some reasons why Gullah is not dying yet
|journal=English World-Wide
|volume=12
|issue=2
|pages=215–243
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1992
|title=Ideology and facts on African-American English
|journal=Pragmatics
|volume=2
|pages=141–166
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1992
|title=A propos de substrat et superstrat dans la genèse des créoles: les vrais et faux problèmes
|journal=Etudes Créoles
|volume=15
|pages=135–149
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1994
|title=New Englishes and criteria for naming them
|journal=World Englishes
|volume=13
|pages=21–31
|doi=10.1111/j.1467-971X.1994.tb00280.x
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1994
|title=On the status of auxiliary verbs in Gullah
|journal=American Speech
|volume=69
|pages=58–70
|doi=10.2307/455949
|jstor=455949
|issue=1
|publisher=Duke University Press
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1994
|title=Genèse de population, genèse de langue
|journal=Plurilinguismes
|volume=8
|pages=95–113
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1995
|title=The founder principle in creole genesis
|journal=Diachronica
|volume=13
|pages=83–134
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1997
|title=The ecology of Gullah's survival
|journal=American Speech
|volume=72
|pages=69–83
|doi=10.2307/455608
|jstor=455608
|issue=1
|publisher=Duke University Press
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1999
|title=Les créoles: l'état de notre savoir
|journal=Anthropologie et Société
|volume=23
|pages=149–173
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=1999
|title=Des ponts interdisciplinaires et langagiers au sujet de la genèse des créoles
|journal=Etudes Créoles
|volume=22
|pages=41–55
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=2000
|title=La fonction réfléchie en créole
|journal=Languages
|volume=138
|pages=114–124
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=2002
|title=Competition and selection in language evolution
|journal=Selection
|volume=3
|pages=45–56
|doi=10.1556/Select.3.2002.1.5
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=2002
|title=Développement des créoles et évolution des langues
|journal=Etudes Créoles
|volume=25
|pages=45–70
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=2002
|title=Colonization, globalization, and the future of languages in the twenty-first century
|journal=Most International Journal on Multicultural Societies
|volume=4
|issue=2
|pages=162–193
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|last2=Pargman
|first2=Sheri
|year=2003
|title=Competition and selection in the development of American Englishes
|journal=World Englishes
|volume=22
|issue=4
|pages=367–375
|doi=10.1111/j.1467-971X.2003.00306.x
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=2004
|title=Language birth and death
|journal=Annual Review of Anthropology
|volume=33
|pages=201–222
|doi=10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143852
}}
*{{cite journal
|last=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|authorlink=Salikoko Mufwene
|year=2006
|title=Language evolution: The population genetics way
|journal=Marges Linguistiques
|volume=11
|pages=243–260
}}


In 2023, Mufwene was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
===Books===

Mufwene is the editor of the book series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact, an interdisciplinary series covering diverse perspectives on languages in contact, pidgins, creoles, language evolution, language change, and bilingualism.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact |url=http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/english-language-and-linguistics-general-interest/series/cambridge-approaches-language-contact |website=Cambridge University Press |accessdate=2015-07-22}}</ref>

==Books==
*{{cite book
*{{cite book
|last=Mufwene
|last1=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|first1=Salikoko
|last2=Steever
|last2=Steever
|first2=Sanford
|first2=Sanford
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|first3=Carol
|first3=Carol
|year=1976
|year=1976
|author-link2=Sanford Steever
|title=Papers from the Twelfth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
|title=Papers from the Twelfth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
|publisher=Chicago Linguistic Society
|publisher=Chicago Linguistic Society
}}
}}
*{{cite book
*{{cite book
|last=Mufwene
|last1=Mufwene
|first=Salikoko
|first1=Salikoko
|last2=Rickford
|last2=Rickford
|first2=John
|first2=John
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|title=African-American English
|title=African-American English
|place=London
|place=London
|author-link2=John R. Rickford
|author-link3=Guy Bailey
|author-link4=John Baugh
|publisher=Routledge
|publisher=Routledge
|isbn=0-415-11732-1
|isbn=0-415-11732-1
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|place=Cambridge
|place=Cambridge
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|isbn=0511019343
|isbn=0-511-01934-3
}}
}}
*{{cite book
*{{cite book
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|title=Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change
|title=Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change
|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group
|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group
|isbn=082649370X
|isbn=978-0-8264-9370-5
}}
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mufwene/ Mufwene's University of Chicago web page]
* [https://mufwene.uchicago.edu/ Mufwene's University of Chicago web page]
* [http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/english-language-and-linguistics-general-interest/series/cambridge-approaches-language-contact Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact]

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Latest revision as of 01:24, 20 June 2023

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.[1] Mufwene was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.[2]

Education and career

[edit]

Mufwene received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1979.[3]

He has worked extensively on the development of creole languages, especially Gullah and Jamaican Creole, on the morphosyntax of Bantu languages, especially Kituba, Lingala, and Kiyansi (the last of which he speaks natively[4]), and on African American Vernacular English.[5] He has also published several articles and chapters about language evolution.[6]

He is one of the leading figures in research pertaining to the ecology of language, a school of thought that encourages a holistic approach of language studies and combines linguistics with different research fields such as sociology, history, cognitive sciences and biology. One of his main claims (Mufwene 2008) is that languages behave to a certain extent like viruses, and that many analogies can be drawn between the ways they both come to existence, reproduce, evolve, and eventually may go extinct.

Honors and distinctions

[edit]

In 2003, Mufwene was awarded a Médaille du Collège de France

In 2018, Mufwene was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[7]

In 2022, Mufwene was elected as a fellow to the American Philosophical Society

In 2023, Mufwene was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Mufwene is the editor of the book series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact, an interdisciplinary series covering diverse perspectives on languages in contact, pidgins, creoles, language evolution, language change, and bilingualism.[8]

Books

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  • Mufwene, Salikoko; Steever, Sanford; Walker, Carol (1976). Papers from the Twelfth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago Linguistic Society.
  • Mufwene, Salikoko; Rickford, John; Bailey, Guy; Baugh, John (1998). African-American English. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-11732-1.
  • Mufwene, Salikoko (2001). The ecology of language evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-511-01934-3.
  • Mufwene, Salikoko (2008). Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-9370-5.

References

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  1. ^ "Faculty | Linguistics". linguistics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  2. ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022".
  3. ^ "Alumni | Linguistics". linguistics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  4. ^ Chaudenson, Robert (2001). "Focus on Creolist: Salikoko S. Mufwene Mufwene". Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  5. ^ "Salikoko S. Mufwene". The University of Chicago Department of Linguistics. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Salikoko S. Mufwene". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  7. ^ "Introducing the LSA Fellows, Class of 2018". Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
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