Susanne Maria Michaelis

Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
e-mail: susanne_michaelis@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
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About me
Curriculum Vitae
Publications & Presentations
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
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
Michaelis, S. M. (2020). Avoiding bias in comparative Creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate. Isogloss, 6(8). |
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Michaelis, S., & Haspelmath, M. (2020). Grammaticalization in Creole languages: Accelerated functionalization and semantic imitation. In W. Bisang, & A. L. Malchukov (Eds.), Grammaticalization scenarios, volume 2: Grammaticalization scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific (pp. 1109-1128). De Gruyter Mouton. |
Bradford, T., Michaelis, S., & Zeshan, U. (2019). Stabilisation of the lexicon in an emerging jargon: The development of signs to express animate referents in a sign language contact situation. In U. Zeshan, & J. Webster (Eds.), Sign Multilingualism (pp. 127-170). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton & Ishara Press. |
Blasi, D. E., Michaelis, S., & Haspelmath, M. (2017). Grammars are robustly transmitted even during the emergence of Creole languages. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 723-729. |
Michaelis, S. M., Maurer, P., Haspelmath, M., & Huber, M. (Eds.). (2013). The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: MPI für evolutionäre Anthropologie. Retrieved from http://apics-online.info. |
2020
Michaelis, S. M. (2020). Avoiding bias in comparative Creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate. Isogloss, 6(8). |
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Michaelis, S., & Haspelmath, M. (2020). Grammaticalization in Creole languages: Accelerated functionalization and semantic imitation. In W. Bisang, & A. L. Malchukov (Eds.), Grammaticalization scenarios, volume 2: Grammaticalization scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific (pp. 1109-1128). De Gruyter Mouton. |
2019
Michaelis, S. M. (2019). Support from creole languages for functional adaptation in grammar: Dependent and independent possessive person-forms. In K. Schmidtke-Bode, N. Levshina, S. M. Michaelis, & I. A. Seržant (Eds.), Explanation in typology: Diachronic sources, functional motivations and the nature of the evidence (pp. 179-201). Berlin: Language Science Press. |
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Schmidtke-Bode, K., Levshina, N., Michaelis, S. M., & Seržant, I. (2019). Explanation in typology: Diachronic sources, functional motivations and the nature of the evidence. Berlin: Language Science Press. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2019). World-Wide comparative evidence for calquing of valency patterns in Creoles. Journal of Language Contact, 12(1), 191-231. |
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Bradford, T., Michaelis, S., & Zeshan, U. (2019). Stabilisation of the lexicon in an emerging jargon: The development of signs to express animate referents in a sign language contact situation. In U. Zeshan, & J. Webster (Eds.), Sign Multilingualism (pp. 127-170). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton & Ishara Press. |
2017
Blasi, D. E., Michaelis, S., & Haspelmath, M. (2017). Grammars are robustly transmitted even during the emergence of Creole languages. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 723-729. |
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Michaelis, S. (2017). Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate. Zenodo. |
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Haspelmath, M., & Michaelis, S. (2017). Analytic and synthetic: Typological change in varieties of European languages. In I. Buchstaller, & B. Siebenhaar (Eds.), Language variation – European perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015 (pp. 3-22). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. |
2014
Michaelis, S., & Haspelmath, M.(2014). Ein Weltatlas der Kontaktsprachen. Retrieved from https://www.mpg.de/7770933/MPI_EVAN_JB_2014?c=8236817. |
2013
Haspelmath, M., & Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Aspect markers and inchoative meaning. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 48-51). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Haspelmath, M., & Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Ditransitive constructions with 'give'. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 236-239). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Haspelmath, M., & Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Focus particle 'also'. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 422-425). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Haspelmath, M., & Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Inclusive–exclusive distinction in independent personal pronouns. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 58-61). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Haspelmath, M., & Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Instrument relative clauses. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 374-377). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Haspelmath, M., & Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Negative morpheme types. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 398-401). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Haspelmath, M., & Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Order of cardinal numeral and noun. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 22-25). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Haspelmath, M., & Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Order of relative clause and noun. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 45-48). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Maurer, P., & Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Directional serial verb constructions with 'come' and 'go'. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 334-337). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Antidual of paired body-part terms. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 104-105). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Coming from named places. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 318-321). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Comparative adjective marking. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 158-161). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Comparative standard marking. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 162-165). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Complementizer with verbs of knowing. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 382-385). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Complementizer with verbs of speaking. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 378-381). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Complements of 'think' and 'want'. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 390-393). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Existential verb and transitive possession verb. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmaht, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 310-313). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Experiencer constructions with 'fear'. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 268-271). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Experiencer constructions with 'headache'. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 260-263). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Experiencer constructions with 'like'. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 264-267). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Expletive subject in 'seem' constructions. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 248-251). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Going to named places. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 314-317). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Motion-to and motion-from. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 322-325). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Predicative adjectives. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 294-297). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Predicative locative phrases. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 298-301). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 302-305). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Predicative noun phrases. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 290-293). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Predicative possession. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 306-309). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Raining constructions. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 256-259). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Transitive motion verbs: 'pull'. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 330-333). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2013). Transitive motion verbs: 'push'. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 326-329). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M., & Haspelmath, M. (2013). Object relative clauses. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 370-373). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M., & Haspelmath, M. (2013). Subject relative clauses. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 366-369). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M., & Haspelmath, M. (2013). The associative plural. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 104-105). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M., & Haspelmath, M. (2013). Verb doubling in temporal clauses. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 394-397). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M., & Haspelmath, M. (2013). Vocative markers. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 428-431). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M., & Haspelmath, M. (2013). Want’ complement subjects. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (pp. 386-389). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M., Maurer, P., Haspelmath, M., & Huber, M. (Eds.). (2013). The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures. Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M., & Rosalie, M. (2013). Seychelles Creole structure dataset. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Retrieved from http://apics-online.info/apics/contributions/58. |
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Michaelis, S. M., & Rosalie, M. (2013). Seychelles Creole. In S. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, & M. Huber (Eds.), The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages (pp. 261-271). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
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Michaelis, S. M., Maurer, P., Haspelmath, M., & Huber, M. (Eds.). (2013). The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: MPI für evolutionäre Anthropologie. Retrieved from http://apics-online.info. |
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Michaelis, S., Maurer, P., Haspelmath, M., & Huber, M. (Eds.). (2013). The Survey of Pidgin and Creole languages. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr. |
2009
Holm, J., & Michaelis, S. (Eds.). (2009). Contact languages: Critical concepts in language studies. London [u.a.]: Routledge. |
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Michaelis, S., & Rosalie, M. (2009). Loanwords in Seychelles Creole. In M. Haspelmath, & U. Tadmor (Eds.), Loanwords in the world's languages (pp. 215-229). Berlin: De Gruyter. |
2008
Haspelmath, M., & Michaelis, S. (2008). Leipzig fourmille de typologues: Genitive objects in comparison. In Greville G. Corbett and Michael Noonan (Ed.), Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie (pp. 149-166). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. |
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Michaelis, S. (Ed.). (2008). Roots of Creole structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and supersubstrates. Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins. |
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Michaelis, S. M. (2008). Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do they come from? In S. M. Michaelis (Ed.), Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates (pp. 225-251). Amsterdam: Benjamins. |
2007
Kriegel, S., & Michaelis, S. (2007). Verbal patterns in Old Mauritian Creole texts. In P. Baker, & G. Fon Sing (Eds.), The making of Mauritian Creole: analyses diachroniques à partir des textes anciens. London: Battlebridge. |
2003
Michaelis, S., & Haspelmath, M. (2003). Ditransitive constructions: creole languages in a cross-linguistic perspective. Creolica. Retrieved from http://www.creolica.net/. |
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Kriegel, S., Michaelis, S., & Pfänder, S. (2003). Modalité et grammaticalisation - le cas des créoles français. In Sybille Kriegel; Jacques Arends (Ed.), Grammaticalisation et réanalyse: approches de la variation créole et française (pp. 165-192). Paris: CNRS-Editions. |
2000
Michaelis, S. (2000). The fate of subject pronouns: evidence from Creole and non-Creole languages. In I. Neumann-Holzschuh, & E. W. Schneider (Eds.), Degrees of restructuring in Creole languages (pp. 163-183). Amsterdam: Benjamins. |
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Michaelis, S., & Rosalie, M. (2000). Polysémie et cartes sémantiques: le relateur (av)ek en créole seychellois. Études Créoles, 23, 79-100. |
1997
Michaelis, S. (1997). Antikausativ als Brücke zum Passiv: fieri, venire und se im Vulgärlateinischen und Altitalienischen. In W. Dahmen, G. Holtus, J. Kramer, M. Metzeltin, W. Schweickard, & O. Winkelmann (Eds.), Neuere Beschreibungsmethoden der Syntax romanischer Sprachen: Romanistisches Kolloquium XI (pp. 69-98). Tübingen: Narr. |
1996
Michaelis, S., & Thiele, P. (Eds.). (1996). Grammatikalisierung in der Romania. Bochum: Brockmeyer. |
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Michaelis, S., & Tophinke, D. (Eds.). (1996). Texte - Konstitution, Verarbeitung, Typik. München: LINCOM Europa. |
1994
Michaelis, S. (1994). Komplexe Syntax im Seychellen-Kreol: Verknüpfung von Sachverhaltsdarstellungen zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit. Tübingen: Narr. |
1993
Michaelis, S. (1993). Temps et aspect en créole seychellois: valeurs et interférences. Hamburg: Buske. |
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