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Publications<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2015. \u00a0Language documentation and endangerment in Africa<\/em>. \u00a0James Essegbey, Brent Henderson & Fiona Mc Laughlin, eds. \u00a0Amsterdam: \u00a0John Benjamins. \u00a0My \u00a0chapter: “Can a language endanger itself? Reshaping repertoires in urban Senegal” (131-151)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2009. \u00a0The languages of urban Africa.<\/em> \u00a0Fiona Mc Laughlin, ed. \u00a0London: Continuum. \u00a0My chapters: “Introduction to the languages of urban Africa” (1-18); “Senegal’s \u00a0 early cities and the making of an urban language” (71-85)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2009. \u00a0Selected Proceedings of the 38th<\/sup> Annual Conference on African Linguistics.<\/i><\/em> Masangu Matondo, Fiona Mc Laughlin & Eric Potsdam, eds. Waltham: Cascadilla Press. Also available online at www.lingref.com\/cpp\/acal\/38\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2006. \u00a0Murambi, the Book of Bones<\/i><\/em>. An English translation of Murambi, le livre des ossements<\/i><\/em>, a novel by Boubacar Boris Diop, with an introduction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [7th<\/sup> printing, new edition 2016]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Selected articles & chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2025.\u00a0 “A Saharan archive and its afterlives<\/a>.”\u00a0 Archival Science<\/em> 25(2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2025. “The pew inscriptions at First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia.” \u00a0In Nicholas Faraclas, Anne Storch and Viveka Velupillai, eds. Hospitable linguistics: Alternative, indigenous and critical approaches to language and language research.<\/em>\u00a0 Bristol: Multilingual Matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2025. “Atlantic consonant mutation.” \u00a0In The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages<\/em>, Friederike L\u00fcpke, ed. Oxford UP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2025. \u00a0“Ajami writing practices in Atlantic-speaking Africa.<\/a>” \u00a0In The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages,\u00a0<\/em>Friederike L\u00fcpke, ed. Oxford UP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2024.\u00a0 Fiona Mc Laughlin & Karim Ouaras. \u00a0“Extreme linguistic landscapes.” \u00a0In Robert Blackwood & Stefania Tufi, eds. \u00a0 Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes.<\/em> \u00a0London: Bloomsbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2023. \u00a0\u201cText as city: Dakar\u2019s linguistic landscape.\u201d<\/a> \u00a0In Deborah Pellow & Suzanne Scheld, eds.\u00a0 Africa and Urban Anthropology:\u00a0Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Contemporary Fieldwork. <\/i>Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2023. \u00a0“Postscript on gendered dichotomies in African youth language and language practices.” \u00a0In Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, ed. \u00a0Gendered dichotomies in African youth language and language practices.<\/em> \u00a0Stuttgart: ibidem Press. 241-245.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2022. \u00a0\u201cUrban Wolof then and now.\u201d\u00a0<\/a> In Paul Kerswill & Heike Wiese, eds.\u00a0 Urban contact dialects and language change: Insights from the global North and South<\/i><\/em>.\u00a0 Routledge (Studies in Language Change).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2021. \u201cThe linguistic ecology of the Sahel.\u201d\u00a0 In Leonardo A. Villal\u00f3n, ed.\u00a0 The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel.<\/i><\/em>\u00a0 Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2018. \u00a0\u201cHow a lingua franca spreads.\u201d In Tracing language movement in Africa<\/i><\/em>. Ericka Albaugh & Kathryn M. de Luna, eds. Oxford University Press. 213-233.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2017. \u00a0“The social meanings of Wolof and French: Contact dialects, language ideology, and competing modernities in Senegal.” \u00a0In Dialect and Identity Performance<\/em>, Reem Bassiouney, ed. \u00a0Routledge. 179-191.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2017. (With Caroline Wiltshire) \u00a0“Syllable weight in the phonology of Pulaar.” \u00a0In Syllable Weight in African Languages<\/em>, Paul Newman, ed. John Benjamins. 161-176.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2015.”\u00a0Linguistic warscapes of northern Mali.<\/a>” \u00a0Linguistic Landscape<\/em> 1(3):213-242.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2015.”\u00a0Inflection in Pulaar<\/a>” In The Oxford Handbook of Inflection<\/em>, Matthew Baerman,ed. \u00a0Oxford UP. 419-445.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2014. \u201cSenegalese digital repertoires in superdiversity: A case study from Seneweb.<\/a>\u201d \u00a0Discourse, Context and Media<\/i><\/em> 4-5:29-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2012. \u201cReligious authority and Wolof discourse on clandestine migration to the Canary Islands.\u201d In\u00a0Religion et migration. <\/i><\/em>Eric Ross, Fatima Harrak & Souad Anegay, eds.\u00a0<\/i><\/em>Rabat: Institut des \u00c9tudes Africaines, Universit\u00e9 Mohammed V- Souissi. 235-249.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2011. \u00a0“Youssou N’Dour’s Sant Y\u00e0lla\/Egypt<\/em>: A musical experiment in Sufi modernity<\/a>.”\u00a0Popular Music <\/i><\/em>30(1):71-87.2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2011. \u00a0(With Leonardo A. Villalon.) \u201cMettre en scene la l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9: analyse d\u2019un discours de feu Xalifa<\/i><\/em> Abdoul Aziz Sy et de son jottalikat<\/i><\/em>.\u201d In Communication wolof et soci\u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9n\u00e9galaise<\/i><\/em>. Sascha Kesseler, Anna Diagne, & Christian Meyer, eds. Paris: L\u2019Harmattan. 323-344.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2010. (With Babacar Mboup.) \u201cMediation and the performance of religious authority in Senegal<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0Islamic Africa<\/i><\/em> 1(1):39-61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2008.\u00a0\u00a0“On the origins of urban Wolof: evidence from Louis Descemet’s 1864 phrase book.”<\/a> Language in Society<\/i><\/em> 37(5):713-735.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2008. \u201cThe ascent of Wolof as an urban vernacular and national lingua franca.\u201d In Globalization and language vitality: Perspectives from Africa<\/i><\/em>. C\u00e9cile B. Vigouroux & Salikoko S. Mufwene, eds. London: Continuum. 142-170.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2008. \u00a0\u201cSenegal: the emergence of a national lingua franca.\u201d In Language and national identity in Africa.<\/i><\/em> Andrew Simpson, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 79-97.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2005. \u201cVoiceless Implosives in Seereer-Siin. <\/a>” Journal of the International Phonetic Association \u00a0<\/i>35(2):201-214.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2005. \u201cReduplication and consonant mutation in the Northern Atlantic languages.\u201d In Studies on reduplication<\/i><\/em>. Bernhard Hurch, ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 111-133.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2004. \u201cIs there an adjective class in Wolof?\u201d In Adjective classes: A cross-linguistic typology<\/i><\/em>.” R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, eds.Oxford: Oxford University Press. 242-262.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2001. \u00a0(With Thierno Seydou Sall.) \u00a0\u201cThe give and take of fieldwork: noun classes and other concerns in Fatick, Senegal<\/a>.\u201d Linguistic fieldwork.<\/i><\/em> Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff, eds. Cambridge University Press. 189-210.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. \u00a0\u201cDakar Wolof and the configuration of an urban identity.<\/a>\u201d \u00a0Journal of African Cultural Studies<\/i><\/em> 14(2):153-172.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
    1. \u00a0\u201cConsonant mutation and reduplication in Seereer-Siin<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0Phonology<\/i><\/em> 17(3):333-363.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      2000. \u00a0\u201c\u2018In the name of God I will sing again, Mawdo Malik the good\u2019<\/a>: Popular music and the Senegalese Sufi tariqas<\/i><\/em>.\u201d Journal of Religion in Africa<\/i><\/em> 30(2):191-207.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. \u201cNoun classification in Wolof: When affixes are not renewed.<\/a>\u201d \u00a0Studies in African Linguistics<\/i><\/em> 26(1):1-28.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        1997. \u00a0\u201cIslam and popular music in Senegal: The emergence of a \u2018new tradition.<\/a>\u2019\u201d \u00a0Africa<\/i><\/em> 67(4):560-581. (Journal of the International African Institute, London).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        1. \u201cHaalpulaar identity as a response to Wolofization<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0African Languages and Cultures <\/i><\/em>8(2):153-168.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
          1. \u201cConsonant mutation in Seereer-Siin<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Studies in African Linguistics<\/i><\/em> 23(3):279-313.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}