Dr. Susanne Michaelis

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Germany

Tel.: +49 (341) 3550 - 317
Fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333

  Email: michaeliseva.mpg.de

Office: Level 1, Room U 1.41
Department: Linguistics

Second APiCS conference Leipzig: 11–14 November 2010

Susanne Michaelis has worked as a senior scientist in the linguistics department of MPI-EVA (1998-2006, since 2006 on a freelance basis). She studied linguistics and Romance Philology in Bonn, Poitiers, and Freiburg/Br., and received her Ph.D. degree from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg .

Her research interests in linguistics are primarily in comparative studies of pidgin and creole languages against the background of the world-wide variation of languages. She is one of the four editors of the ongoing project Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS). Susanne Michaelis has been specializing on Seychelles Creole, a French-based creole of the Indian Ocean (Temps et aspect en créole seychellois, 1993; Komplexe Syntax im Seychellen-Kreol 1994).

Language expertise:

creole languages, French-based creole languages, Seychelles Creole, Romance Languages (French, Italian)

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