Salikoko Sangol Mufwene
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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.
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Pidgin, originally, a language that typically developed out of sporadic and limited contacts between Europeans and non-Europeans in locations other than Europe from the 16th through the early 19th century and often in association with activities such as trade, plantation agriculture, and mining.…
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