Susanne Maria Michaelis (born March 30, 1962 in

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

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

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (german: Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, shortened to MPI EVA) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, that was founded in 1997. It is part of the Max Plan ...

in Leipzig. She was previously at

Leipzig University Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December ...

and at the

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (german: Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte) performs basic research into archaeological science. The institute is one of 80+ research institutes of the Max Planck Society and ...

in Jena. She studied Romance linguistics at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

, the

University of Poitiers The University of Poitiers (UP; french: Université de Poitiers) is a public university located in Poitiers, France. It is a member of the Coimbra Group. It is multidisciplinary and contributes to making Poitiers the city with the highest studen ...

and the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

, working with

Wolfgang Raible Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regula ...

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

University of Bamberg The University of Bamberg (german: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg) in Bamberg, Germany, specializes in the humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, economics, and applied computer science. Campus The university is mainly housed in ...

. She received her Ph.D. thesis with a work on complex syntax in

Seychelles Creole Seychellois Creole (), also known as kreol, is the French-based creole language spoken by the Seychelles Creole people of the Seychelles. It shares national language status with English and French (in contrast to Mauritian and Réunion 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 Hawaii in Manoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages ...

language bioprogram hypothesis The language bioprogram theory or language bioprogram hypothesis (LBH) is a theory arguing that the structural similarities between different creole languages cannot be solely attributed to their superstrate and substrate languages. As articulated ...

. In more recent work, she has focused on the role of

substrate language In linguistics, a stratum (Latin for "layer") or strate is a language that influences or is influenced by another through contact. A substratum or substrate is a language that has lower power or prestige than another, while a superstratum or sup ...

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 The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS) is a comparative linguistic atlas of contact languages. It exists as a four volume publication and online database in the form of a websitAPiCS Online The atlas was edited by Susanne Maria ...

(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 John Alexander Holm (May 16, 1943 – December 28, 2015) was an American academic. He was Chair of English Linguistics and History of Civilizations at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Holm was born in Jackson, Michigan, and graduated from ...

& 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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