Susanne Maria Michaelis
Abteilung für Sprach- und Kulturevolution
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 271
E-Mail:
susanne_michaelis@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
About me
I am a comparative linguist interested in the typology of creole languages and sign languages, language contact, and language change. I am best known for coediting the Atlas of pidgin and creole language structures (2013).
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Education
| 1988 | M.A. in Romance Philogogy, Linguistics, University of Freiburg/Breisgau |
| 1983/84 | Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service, Université de Poitiers, France |
| 1981-83 | Romance Philology, Slavic Philology, Linguistics, University of Bonn |
Degrees
| 1991 | Dr. phil. in Romance Philology, University of Freiburg/Breisgau Thesis: Junktion von Sachverhaltsdarstellungen im Seychellen-Kreol |
Career
| 2023-(2026) | Research Scientist (PI), Leipzig University, DFG-AHRC Project "Cross-modal grammaticalization in creoles and sign languages" |
| 2022-2023 | Postdoctoral researcher, Leipzig University (Office for Equal Opportunities, Diversity and Family) |
| 2020-now | Guest, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, (Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution), Leipzig |
| 2015-2020 | Guest, Max Planck Institute for The Science of Human History, (Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution), Jena |
| 2015 - 2020 | Postdoctoral researcher, Leipzig University (Philological Faculty), ERC-funded project "Grammatical Universals" |
| 2015 | Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution), Jena |
| 2011 - 2015 | Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, (Department of Linguistics), Leipzig |
| 2008 - 2011 | Research position in project “Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures” financed by the DFG, University of Gießen |
| 2003 - 2008 | Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, (Department of Linguistics), Leipzig |
| 2000 - 2003 | Maternal leave |
| 1998 - 2000 | Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, (Department of Linguistics), Leipzig |
| 1991 - 1998 | Assistant professor, Romance Philology Department, University of Bamberg |
Publications & Presentations
2019
Michaelis, S. M. (2019). Variation across Asian and Pacific creoles, Symposium on sociolinguistic variation in signed and spoken languages of the Asia-Pacific region, UCLan, Preston
Michaelis, S. M. (2019). Focus particles in creole languages, International Conference on ‘Discourse Markers in Romance Languages’ (DISROM6, University of Bergamo)
2017
Michaelis, S. M. (2017). Principled hybridization in creole languages, SLE Summerschool, University of Neuchâtel.
Michaelis, S. M. (2017). International Chair Labex (Paris, CNRS-INALCO), Lectures on Creole languages and linguistic typology
Michaelis, S. M. (2017). Creole languages: Language shift and substrate influence; Fourth International Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (University of Greifwald)
2015
Michaelis, S. M. & Haspelmath, M. (2019). Analytic and synthetic: Typological change in varieties of European languages; International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), Leipzig University
Michaelis, S. M. (2015). Which patterns do lexifiers and substrates systematically contribute to creole languages? Evidence from the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures; Summer meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, University of Graz