Salikoko S. Mufwene is the Frank L. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College at the University of Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. in linguistics with distinction from the same school in 1979. He taught at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus in 1980 and 1981, and at the University of Georgia from 1981 to 1991. He has been at the University of Chicago since January 1992 and chaired its Department of Linguistics from 1995 to 2001. He has served as Professeur Invité at the Université de Lyon III (Nov. & Dec. 1989), and as a Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies (Jul. & Aug. 2001), the National University of Singapore (Oct. & Nov. 2001), and Harvard University (Spring 2002). He was also a Professeur Invité at the Collège de France (15 Nov.-15. Dec. 2003). His current research is on language evolution, including questions of language vitality and endangerment, all approached from the perspectives of population genetics and macroecology. He is the author of The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge University Press), editor and co-translator of Robert Chaudenson's Creolization of Language and Culture (Routledge), and co-editor of African-American English (Routledge), among others. He has authored close to 150 essays, especially on creoles and African languages, on topics including semantics, morphosyntax, pragmatics, and evolution. He is also the series editor of the Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact.

The Ecology of Language Evolution | LSA.106
TR 4:50-6:30
Three Week Course | First Session
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