Donald Winford
Donald Winford is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at The Ohio State University, where he has been a faculty member since 1988. His teaching and research interests are in creole linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, and African-American English, and he has published widely in those areas. Recent research projects include a study of Gbe influence on the Surinamese creoles, and an investigation of Kwinti and Matawai, two under-researched Maroon creoles of Suriname. He also continues work on the integration of linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to language contact phenomena.
Winford has authored numerous publications, including An Introduction to Contact Linguistics (2003), and has contributed to various edited volumes and journals. He served as president of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics is an Honorary Editor of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. In recognition of his scholarly contributions and mentorship, he received the 2021 Linguistics Faculty Recognition Award at Ohio State.
Winford earned his D.Phil. in Linguistics from the University of York. Prior to joining Ohio State, he taught at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad.