{"id":22,"date":"2012-09-05T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:25:20","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-21-at-11.09.29-AM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-257\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-257 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-21-at-11.09.29-AM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-21-at-11-09-29-am\" width=\"519\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-21-at-11.09.29-AM.png 519w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-21-at-11.09.29-AM-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-21-at-11.09.29-AM-200x134.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><strong>RESEARCH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>I work on the sociolinguistics of multilingualism and language contact in urban West Africa, the Sahara, and the Maghreb, and on the phonology and morphology of the Atlantic \u00a0languages, especially Wolof, Pulaar and Sereer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>My sociolinguistic interests center on the ways in which outcomes of language contact are modulated by societal considerations such as urbanization, Islamization, and (colonial and postcolonial) power relationships between speakers of various languages, and I am particularly interested in urban ways of speaking and in the sociolinguistics of everyday writing in African languages from the Maghreb to the Sahel.\u00a0 You can see more information on my vernacular writing project on my NEH page. \u00a0In spring of 2022 I conducted research in Algeria for this project on a Fulbright research grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>My formal linguistic interests include consonant mutation and its interaction with other phonological processes such as reduplication and loanword adaptation; noun classification; and Fula prosody across dialects. Much of my work in these areas can be viewed on my publications page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>My research is based on extensive fieldwork in West Africa and has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright, the National Science Foundation, and the Camargo Foundation, as well as by several UF internal grants. \u00a0I am a former Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/warccroa.org\">West African Research Center<\/a> in Dakar, Senegal, and I \u00a0have taught at the Universit\u00e9 Abdou Moumouni in Niamey, Niger and at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ugb.sn\">Universit\u00e9 Gaston Berger<\/a> in Saint-Louis, Senegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Assekrem2022.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Assekrem2022-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-369\" style=\"width:690px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Assekrem2022-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Assekrem2022-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Assekrem2022-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Assekrem2022-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/files\/Assekrem2022.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the field in Assekrem, southern Algerian Sahara, May 2022 \u00a0(Photo by Adolfo Ayuso Audry)<\/strong><\/p>\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":225,"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-22","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","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=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fmcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}