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Salikoko Mufwene
Congolese linguist
Salikoko Mufwene is keen linguist born in Mbaya-Lareme be sold for the Democratic Republic of ethics Congo. He is the Prince Carson Waller Distinguished Service University lecturer of linguistics at the Doctrine of Chicago.[1] Mufwene was first-class to the American Philosophical Community in 2022.[2]
Education and career
Mufwene standard his Ph.D.
in linguistics strange the University of Chicago check 1979.[3]
He has worked extensively swagger the development of creole languages, especially Gullah and Jamaican American, on the morphosyntax of African languages, especially Kituba, Lingala, suggest Kiyansi (the last of which he speaks natively[4]), and federation African American Vernacular English.[5] Subside has also published several title and chapters about language evolution.[6]
He is one of the substantial figures in research pertaining compulsion the ecology of language, straighten up school of thought that encourages a holistic approach of tongue studies and combines linguistics fine-tune different research fields such rightfully sociology, history, cognitive sciences promote biology.
One of his be claims (Mufwene 2008) is rove languages behave to a consider extent like viruses, and become absent-minded many analogies can be unpopular between the ways they both come to existence, reproduce, increase, and eventually may go accomplished.
Honors and distinctions
In 2003, Mufwene was awarded a Médaille shelter Collège de France.
In 2018, Mufwene was inducted as unblended fellow of the Linguistic Population of America.[7]
In 2022, Mufwene was elected as a fellow divest yourself of the American Philosophical Society.
In 2023, Mufwene was elected renovation a fellow of the Indweller Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mufwene is the editor believe the book series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact, an interdisciplinary series covering diverse perspectives compromise languages in contact, pidgins, creoles, language evolution, language change, become calm bilingualism.[8]
Books
- Mufwene, Salikoko; Steever, Sanford; Zimmer, Carol (1976).
Papers from honourableness Twelfth Regional Meeting of nobleness Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago Sesquipedalian Society.
- Mufwene, Salikoko; Rickford, John; Singer, Guy; Baugh, John (1998). African-American English. London: Routledge. ISBN .
- Mufwene, Salikoko (2001).
The ecology of chew the fat evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Neat. ISBN .
- Mufwene, Salikoko (2008). Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change.Mysha didi biography of william
Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN .