Marlyse Baptista

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Marlyse Baptista is a linguist specializing in morphology, syntax, pidgin and creole languages, language contact, and language documentation. [1] Until 2022, Baptista was the Uriel Weinreich Collegiate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan [1] , and now holds the position of President's Distinguished Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also currently the President of the Linguistic Society of America. [2]

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Biography

Baptista's parents are from Cape Verde, and she grew up in France as part of the Cape Verdean diaspora. [3] After studying for a licence (1986) and then an MA (1987) in Anglophone literatures and civilizations at the Université de Bordeaux III, she moved to the United States to study for a further MA in ESL at the University of Massachusetts (1990). Her subsequent studies took place at Harvard University, where she completed a third MA and then a PhD in linguistics, awarded in 1997. [4]

Post-PhD she spent a year as a visiting scholar in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. From 1998 to 2007 she was first assistant professor then associate professor of linguistics at the University of Georgia. In 2007 she moved to the University of Michigan to take up a position as associate professor of linguistics and Afroamerican and African studies. She was promoted to full professor in 2011 and took up an endowed chair in 2019. [4] She now has an endowed chair at the University of Pennsylvania.

Honors

Since 2017 she has been a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). [5] She served on the Executive Committee of the LSA from 2018-2020 [6] [7] and as of January 2024, she is currently serving as President of the Linguistic Society of America. [8] She is also a past President (2011–2015) of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. [9]

Research

Baptista's work has focused on the morphosyntax of pidgin and creole languages. [1] She has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Cape Verdean archipelago, particularly on Cape Verdean Creole. [10] In current research she is investigating the cognitive underpinnings of language contact situations, particularly the role of congruence in second language acquisition, bilingualism, and the origins and development of creoles. [1] She has also collaborated with geneticists to gain a better understanding of the founding population of Cape Verde using field data and DNA. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "LSA (UMich): Marlyse Baptista" . Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "Governance | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
  3. ↑ "Marlyse Baptista: Biography" . Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Marlyse Baptista CV" (PDF). Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  5. ↑ "LSA Fellows By Name" . Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  6. ↑ "Past Executive Committees | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  7. ↑ "Marlyse Baptista Elected to Leadership Post at Linguistic Society of America | U-M LSA Linguistics". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  8. ↑ "Governance | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
  9. ↑ "SPCL: Past Presidents" . Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  10. ↑ "Marlyse Baptista: Field Work" . Retrieved 8 March 2021.
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