Salikoko Mufwene

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 languages, as well as on African American Vernacular English. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1979.

Publications

Articles

• Mufwene, Salikoko (1977). "Some considerations on the new lexeme beau in Lingala". Studies in African Linguistics 8: 81–95. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1978). "A reconsideration of Lingala temporal inflections". Studies in African Linguistics 9: 91–105. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1979). "Lingala and English translations within the postulated domain 'opening'". General Linguistics 19: 47–68. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1980). "Number, countability and markedness in Lingala li-/ma- noun class". Linguistics 18 (1): 119–152. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1980). "'Prototype' and 'kin-class'". Anthropological Linguistics 22: 29–41. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1983). "Investigating what the words father and mother mean". Language and Communication 3 (3): 245–269. doi:10.1016/0271-5309(83)90004-6. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1983). "Observations on time reference in Jamaican and Guyanese Creoles". BaShiru 11 (2): 54–76. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1984). "Observations on time reference in Jamaican and Guyanese Creoles". English World-Wide 4: 199–229. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1984). "The manifold obligations of the dictionary to its users". Dictionaries 6: 1–30. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1985). "Some Bantu ways of talking: The case of kinship vocabularies". Language Sciences 7 (2): 271–282. doi:10.1016/S0388-0001(85)80002-4. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1985). "The linguistic significance of African proper names in Gullah". New West-Indian Guide 59: 146–166. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1986). "Number delimitation in Gullah". American Speech (Duke University Press) 61 (1): 31–60. doi:10.2307/454708. JSTOR 454708. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1986). "Restrictive relativization in Gullah". Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1: 1–31. doi:10.1075/jpcl.1.1.03muf. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko; Gilman, Charles (1987). "How African is Gullah and why?". American Speech (Duke University Press) 62 (2): 120–139. doi:10.2307/455274. JSTOR 455274. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1987). "Les langues créoles peuvent-elles être définies sans allusion à leur histoire?". Etudes Créoles 9: 135–150. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1988). "Dictionaries and proper names". International Journal of Lexicography 1 (3): 268–283. doi:10.1093/ijl/1.3.268. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1988). "Formal evidence of pidginization/creolization in Kituba". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 10: 33–51. doi:10.1515/jall.1988.10.1.33. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1988). "The pragmatics of kinship terms in Kituba". Multilingua 7: 441–453. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1988). "English pidgins: Form and function". World Englishes 7 (3): 255–267. doi:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1988.tb00236.x. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1988). "The small pro and inflectional morphology". Linguistic Analysis 18: 235–242. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko; Dijkhoff, Marta (1989). "On the so-called 'infinitive' in Atlantic creoles". Lingua 77 (3-4): 297–330. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(89)90043-0. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1989). "Equivocal structures in some Gullah complex sentences". American Speech (Duke University Press) 64 (4): 304–326. doi:10.2307/455723. JSTOR 455723. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1989). "La créolisation en bantou: les cas du kituba, du lingala urbain, et du swahili du Shaba". Etudes Créoles 12: 74–106. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1990). "Transfer and the substrate hypothesis in creolistics". Studies in Second Language Acquisition 12: 1–23. doi:10.1017/S0272263100008718. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1990). "Creoles and Universal Grammar". Linguistics 28 (4): 783–787. doi:10.1515/ling.1990.28.4.783. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1991). "Some reasons why Gullah is not dying yet". English World-Wide 12 (2): 215–243. doi:10.1075/eww.12.2.04muf. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1992). "Ideology and facts on African-American English". Pragmatics 2: 141–166. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1992). "A propos de substrat et superstrat dans la genèse des créoles: les vrais et faux problèmes". Etudes Créoles 15: 135–149. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1994). "New Englishes and criteria for naming them". World Englishes 13: 21–31. doi:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1994.tb00280.x. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1994). "On the status of auxiliary verbs in Gullah". American Speech (Duke University Press) 69 (1): 58–70. doi:10.2307/455949. JSTOR 455949. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1994). "Genèse de population, genèse de langue". Plurilinguismes 8: 95–113. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1995). "The founder principle in creole genesis". Diachronica 13: 83–134. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1997). "The ecology of Gullah's survival". American Speech (Duke University Press) 72 (1): 69–83. doi:10.2307/455608. JSTOR 455608. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1999). "Les créoles: l'état de notre savoir". Anthropologie et Société 23: 149–173. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (1999). "Des ponts interdisciplinaires et langagiers au sujet de la genèse des créoles". Etudes Créoles 22: 41–55. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (2000). "La fonction réfléchie en créole". Languages 138: 114–124. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (2002). "Competition and selection in language evolution". Selection 3: 45–56. doi:10.1556/Select.3.2002.1.5. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (2002). "Développement des créoles et évolution des langues". Etudes Créoles 25: 45–70. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (2002). "Colonization, globalization, and the future of languages in the twenty-first century". Most International Journal on Multicultural Societies 4 (2): 162–193. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko; Pargman, Sheri (2003). "Competition and selection in the development of American Englishes". World Englishes 22 (4): 367–375. doi:10.1111/j.1467-971X.2003.00306.x. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (2004). "Language birth and death". Annual Review of Anthropology 33: 201–222. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143852. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (2006). "Language evolution: The population genetics way". Marges Linguistiques 11: 243–260. 

Books

• 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 0511019343. 
• Mufwene, Salikoko (2008). Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 082649370X. 

External links

• Mufwene's University of Chicago web page