Susanne Maria Michaelis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Susanne Maria Michaelis is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2542-7059
Journal
Title
Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates
Edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis
This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language… read more[Creole Language Library, 33] 2008. xvii, 425 pp.
2022 Annegret Bollée (1937–2021) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37:1, pp. 10–15 | Obituary
2017 Analytic and synthetic: Typological change in varieties of European languages Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015, Buchstaller, Isabelle and Beat Siebenhaar (eds.), pp. 3–22 | Chapter
It has long been observed that the modern European languages use more function words compared to earlier inflectional patterns, and this trend seems to have increased even further in creoles and other non-standard varieties. Here we make two arguments: First, we note that the terms synthetic and… read more
2008 Leipzig fourmille de typologues: Genitive objects in comparison Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie, Corbett, Greville G. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 149–166 | Article
In this paper we examine genitive objects in some of the major European languages (French, Italian, Latin, German, English) and propose a semantic invariant for them: We claim that in the great majority of cases, the genitive object can be said to express a background theme, i.e., a participant… read more
2008 9. Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do they come from? Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates, Michaelis, Susanne Maria (ed.), pp. 225–251 | Article
In this article, I argue that with respect to five valency patterns Seychelles Creole clearly mirrors Eastern Bantu substrate patterns. These findings are particularly interesting since the received view on French Indian Ocean creoles has been so far that there has been virtually no significant… read more
2000 The fate of subject pronouns: Evidence from creole and non-creole languages Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.), pp. 163–184 | Article