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In:Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Cécile B. Vigouroux
[Contact Language Library 59] 2021
► pp. 307–325

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The restructuring of Salikoko Mufwene through competition and selection

A conversation between Salikoko Mufwene and Michel DeGraff

 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Published online: 12 October 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/coll.59.13deg
Article outline
  • From founder principle to funder principle
  • On Creole studies as the making and unmaking of exceptionalist myths about the colonized and their languages
  • On biography, geography and bibliography
  • On symbolic markets and personal investments in Creole studies and in Creole communities
  • On the journey ahead
  • Note
  • References
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