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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Lingua franca, language used as a means of communication between populations speaking vernaculars that are not mutually intelligible. The term was first used during the Middle Ages to describe a French- and Italian-based jargon, or pidgin, that was developed by Crusaders and traders in the eastern…
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