She is also editor of Roots of Creole Structures (Benjamins, 2008) and coeditor of the anthology Contact Languages: Critical concepts in linguistics (Routledge, 2008).

Her early work focused on French-based Indian Ocean creoles, in particular Seychelles Creole (Temps et aspect en créole seychellois, 1993 Komplexe Syntax im Seychellen-Kreol, 1994). 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.

The books 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.

Descripción The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 130 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonology, syntax, morphology, and lexicons.

Pidgins creoles and mixed languages