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Salikoko Sangol Mufwene
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LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois, United States

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The Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago. Author of Language Evolution: Contact, Competition, and Change, Créoles, écologie sociale, évolution linguistique, and The Ecology of Language Evolution, editor and cotranslator of Robert Chaudenson's Creolization of Language and Culture, coeditor of Polymorphous Linguistics and African-American English, and series editor for the Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact.

Primary Contributions (15)
African American English (AAE), a language variety that has also been identified at different times in dialectology and literary studies as Black English, black dialect, and Negro (nonstandard) English. Since the late 1980s, the term has been used ambiguously, sometimes with reference to only…
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