Between 20, she held a researcher position in the APiCS project at the University of Gießen. ![]() Susanne Maria Michaelis is is currently a creolist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Individually and together the books are a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.Įdited by Susanne Maria Michaelis, Max Planck Insitute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Magnus Huber, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen The books have been designed, edited, and written by the world's leading experts in the field and represent the most systematic and comprehensive guide ever published to the world's pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. The Atlas is published alongside a three-volume Survey of Pidgins and Creoles which describes the histories and linguistic characteristics of 71 languages. ![]() ![]() The project is the successor to the successful World Atlas of Language Structures and draws on the same linguistic, cartographic, and computing knowledge and skills of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. The languages include pidgins, creoles, and contact languages based on English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and French and languages from Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 120 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonology, syntax, morphology, and lexicons.
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