Marlyse Baptista
On the Role of Convergence in Creole Formation
12.07.2020, 8:00 PM (UTC)12.07.2020, 5:00 PM (Local*)
Marlyse Baptista
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