Susanne Maria Michaelis
Susanne Maria Michaelis is a specialist in creole linguistics who works at Leipzig University. She was previously at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena.
She studied Romance linguistics at the University of Bonn, the University of Poitiers and the University of Freiburg, working with Wolfgang Raible and Annegret Bollée. Between 1991 and 1998 she was an assistant professor at the University of Bamberg. She received her Ph.D. thesis with a work on complex syntax in Seychelles Creole, and she also worked on tense and aspect in Seychelles Creole, challenging Derek Bickerton's language bioprogram hypothesis. In more recent work, she has focused on the role of substrate languages in creole genesis.
Michaelis is best known for coordinating and coediting the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures.Books
- 1993. Temps et aspect an créole seychellois: valeurs et interférences . Hamburg: Buske.
- 1994. Komplexe Syntax im Seychellen-Kreol: Verknüpfung von Sachverhaltsdarstellungen zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit . Tübingen: Narr.
- 1996. . Texte – Konstitution, Verarbeitung, Typik. München: Lincom.
- 1996. . Grammatikalisierung in der Romania. Beiträge zur Teilsektion 1b des XXIV. Romanistentages in Münster, 25.-28.9.1995. Bochum: Brockmeyer.
- 2008. Roots of creole structures: Weighing the contributions of substrates and superstrates . Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
- 2008. John A. Holm & Susanne Michaelis. Contact Languages: Critical concepts in linguistics, 5 volumes. London/New York: Routledge.
- 2013. . 2013a. The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2013. . 2013b. The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Volumes 1-3. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2013. . 2013c. . Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
