Goodies

All recent articles and book chapters, and more, can be found at Research Gate.

• English: the Empire is dead. Long live the Empire (2016)
• L'émergence des parlers créoles et l'évolution des langues romanes (2015)
• The Emergence of African American English: Monogenetic or Polygenetic? (2015)
• The Emergence of Creoles and Language Change (2015)
• Creole and Pidgin Languages (2015)
• Des langues et des récits dans l'espèce humaine: une perspective évolutive (2015)
• Creoles and Pidgins Do Not Have Inadequate Lexica: A response to Peter Mühlhäusler (2015)
• The Case Was Never Closed: McWhorter misinterprets the ecological approach to the emergence of creoles (2014)
• Modeling the Emergence of Contact Languages (main article, 2015)
• Modeling the Emergence of Contact Languages (supporting information, 2015)
• Globalisation économique mondiale des XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, émergence des créoles et vitalité langagière (2014, PDF file, 407 KB)
• The English origins of African American English: What Edgar Schneider has taught us. (2014, PDF file, 137 KB)
• Latin America: A Linguistic Curiosity (2014, PDF file, 307 KB)
• What African Linguistics Can Contribute to Evolutionary Linguistics (2013, PDF file, 1.6 KB)
• Ecology of Language: Some Evolutionary Perspectives (2013, PDF file, 1.6 MB)
• Language Ecology, Language Evolution, and the Actuation Question (February 2014, PDF file, 1.2 MB)
• The Origins and the Evolution of Language (February 2014, PDF file, 285 KB)
• Simplicity and Complexity in Creoles and Pidgins: Myths and Facts
• Language as Technology: Some questions that evolutionary linguistics should address (Apil 2012, PDF file, 582 KB)
• Review of The Interactional Instinct: : The Evolution and Acquisition of Language (April 2012, PDF file, 61 KB)
• An ecological account of language evolution! Way to go! Commentary on Luc Steels' Modeling the Cultural Evolution of Language (November 2011, PDF file, 66 KB)
• The Emergence of Complexity in Language: An Evolutionary Perspective. In Complexity perspectives on language, communication, and society, ed. by Ángels Massip-Bonet & Albert Bastardas-Boada, 197-218. Springer Verlag (2012).
• Individuals, Populations, and Timespace: Perspectives on the Ecology of Language (2012, PDF file, 426 KB)
• Transmission, Language Acquisition, Parameter-Setting, Reanalysis, and Language Change (April 2011, PDF file, 53 KB)
• The Role of Mother-Tongue Schooling in Eradicating Poverty: A response to Language and poverty (January 2011, PDF file, 250 KB)
• Globalization and the spread of English: what does it mean to be Anglophone? (March 2010, PDF file, 114 KB)
• SLA and the Emergence of Creoles (2010, PDF file, 199 KB)
• Building Models of Language Change (Oct 2009, PDF file, 169 KB)
• The Indigenization of English in North America (Sept 2009, PDF file, 192 KB)
• Globalization, Global English, and World Englishes: Myths and Facts (2009, PDF file, 128 KB)
• Some Offspring of Colonial English Are Creole (2009, PDF file, 10.5 MB)
• 'Protolanguage' and the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity (2009, PDF file, 192 KB)
• Postscript: Restructuring, Hybridization, and Complexity in Language Evolution (2009, PDF file, 208 KB)
• The Evolution of Language: Hints from Creoles and Pidgins (2009, PDF file, 192 KB)
• Kituba, Kileta, or Kikongo? What's in a name? (2009, PDF file, 140 KB)
• Colonization, Globalization, and Language Vitality in Africa: An Introduction (Jan. 2009, PDF file, 1.4 MB)
• Les écologies de l’usage du français dans le monde global contemporain (June 2008, PDF file, 51 KB)
• BLS 34 - From Genetic Creolistics to Genetic Linguistics: Lessons We Should Not Miss! (Feb. 2008, PDF file, 212 KB)
• Poids des langues - Aix-en-Povence  (Sept. 2007, QuickTime Movie)
• Population Movements and Contacts in Language Evolution 1 (PDF file, 376 KB)
• Créoles: de nouvelles variétés indo-européennes (2007, PDF 136 KB)
• Grammaticization is part of the development of creoles (2007, PDF file, 1,530 KB)
• The Comparability of New-Dialect Formation and Creole Development (PDF file, 94 KB)
• Myths of Globalization: What African Demolinguistics Reveals (PDF file, 100 KB)
• How Languages Die (PDF file, 133 KB)
• CLS42(2006)-Language Endangerment: An Embarrassment for Linguistics (PDF file, 200 KB)
• Race, Racialism, and the Study of Language Evolution in America (2006, PDF file, 175 KB)
• Les continua créoles, linguistiques, et langagiers (2006, PDF file, 160 KB)
• Globalization and Myth of Killer Languages (In press, 2005, PDF file, 170 KB)
• Language Evolution: the Population Genetics Way (2005, PDF file, 1.2 MB)
• Pourquoi le Cap-Vert a-t-il développé un créole mais pas le Brésil ? (Nov. 2005, PPT file, 1.9MB)
• An interview with Callaloo on the Development of Creoles and Language Evolution (PDF file, 120 KB)
• Globalization and Global English - IAWE 2004 (Corel Presentations file)
• Globalization and Global English - IAWE 2004 (PDF file)
• Language Birth and Death (PDF file, 125KB)
• Genetic Linguistics and Genetic Creolistics (PDF file) 
• Competition and Selection in Language Evolution (PDF file)
• What Do Creoles and Pidgins Tell Us About the Evolution of Language? (PDF file, 160 KB)
• On The "Ebonics" Debate
• Colonization, Globalization, and the Future of Languages in the Twenty-first Century (PDF file)
• The Flow of Highway Traffic and Language Evolution (PDF file)
• Creolization is a Social, not a Structural, Process
• Language Endangerment: What Have Pride and Prestige Got to do With it? (PDF file)
• Lost Tongues and the Politics of Language Endangerment (featured at Fathom, online learning source)
• Languages Don't Kill Languages; Speakers Do (featured at Uchicago alumni magazine)
• The Evolution of English
• Ebonics and Standard English
• Pidgins and Creoles: An Overview
• Creoles, Pidgins and the Evolution of Languages (featured at Fathom, online learning source)
• Bantu Contact Languages