Marlyse Baptista is the Uriel Weinreich Collegiate Professor of Linguistics in the Linguistics Department and the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Michigan; she is also affiliated to the Department of Afroamerican and African studies at UM. She specializes in the morpho-syntax of Creole languages and in theories of creole genesis. In addition to conducting generative and descriptive analyses of a variety of Creoles, she is involved with several collaborations using experimental methods and agent-based modeling to examine cognitive processes involved in language emergence
