The Faculty
Salikoko Mufwene
The Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics and Humanities Collegiate Division
Area of Study
Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
Salikoko Mufwene
The Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics and Humanities Collegiate DivisionDr. Mufwene currently works on language evolution, focusing on language speciation (including the emergence of creole language varieties, of African-American English, and of indigenized Englishes), on the phylogenetic emergence of language, and on colonization, globalization, and the vitality of languages (including language birth and death).
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