Susanne Maria Michaelis (born March 30, 1962, in

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) is a specialist in creole linguistics who is affiliated with the

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in Leipzig. She was previously at

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and at the

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in Jena. She studied Romance linguistics at the

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, the

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and the

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, working with Wolfgang Raible and

Annegret Bollée Annegret Bollée (4 March 1937 – 20 August 2021) was a German linguist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Bamberg, specializing in Romance linguistics and creole languages. Education and career Annegret Bollée née Alsdorf was born ...

. Between 1991 and 1998 she was an assistant professor at the

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. She received her Ph.D. thesis with a work on complex syntax in Seychelles Creole (Michaelis 1994), and she also worked on tense and aspect in Seychelles Creole, challenging

Derek Bickerton Derek Bickerton (March 25, 1926 – March 5, 2018) was an English-born linguist and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languag ...

's language bioprogram hypothesis. In more recent work, she has focused on the role of

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s in creole genesis (e.g. Michaelis 2008), and on asymmetric coding in creole languages (e.g. Michaelis 2019). Michaelis is best known for coordinating and coediting the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (2013).

Books

* 1993.
Temps et aspect an créole seychellois: valeurs et interférences
' reolische Bibliothek 11 Hamburg: Buske. * 1994.
Komplexe Syntax im Seychellen-Kreol: Verknüpfung von Sachverhaltsdarstellungen zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit
' criptOralia 49 Tübingen: Narr. * 1996. usanne Michaelis & Doris Tophinke(eds.). ''Texte – Konstitution, Verarbeitung, Typik.'' München: Lincom. * 1996. usanne Michaelis & Petra Thiele(eds.). ''Grammatikalisierung in der Romania. Beiträge zur Teilsektion 1b des XXIV. Romanistentages in Münster, 25.-28.9.1995.'' Bochum: Brockmeyer. * 2008. usanne Michaelis, ed.''Roots of creole structures: Weighing the contributions of substrates and superstrates'' reole Language Library 33 Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. * 2008. John A. Holm & Susanne Michaelis (eds.). ''Contact Languages: Critical concepts in linguistics'', 5 volumes. London/New York: Routledge. * 2013. ichaelis, Susanne Maria, Maurer, Philippe, Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus(eds.). 2013a. ''The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press. * 2013. ichaelis, Susanne Maria, Maurer, Philippe, Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus(eds.). 2013b. ''The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Volumes 1-3.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press. * 2013. ichaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus(Eds.). 2013c.
The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
'' Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. * 2019. Support from creole languages for functional adaptation in grammar: Dependent and independent possessive person-forms. In Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten & Levshina, Natalia & Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Seržant, Ilja A. (eds.), ''Explanation in typology'', 179–201. Berlin: Language Science Press. (http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/220)

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