Education
- 1990
MA, Universiteit van Amsterdam [General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Creole Studies]; - 1996
PhD, Universiteit van Amsterdam [General Linguistics].
Academic Positions
- since 2006
ZAS [research fellow] - since 2004
member of the IZ ZEUS, Freie Universität Berlin - since 2011
associate member of the Centro de Linguistica, Universidade de Lisboa - since 2012
member of the scientific board of the International Scientific Coordination Network "Structure, emergence and evolution of pidgin and creole languages (SEEPiCLA)"
Previous academic positions
- 1989
UWI, Jamaica [visiting researcher] - 1990-95
Universiteit van Amsterdam [research assistant] - 1991-92
Université de Quebec à Montréal, Canada [visiting scholar] - 1995-97
Universiteit van Amsterdam [post doc] - 1997-98
Universität Potsdam [post doc] - 1997-99
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin/Universität Potsdam [member Graduiertenkolleg] - 1998-99
Universität Potsdam [post doc] - 1999-05
Freie Universität Berlin [assistant professor]
Stipends
- 1989
Stichting Ontwikkelingssamenwerking [offer, accepted] - 1990
NWO [offer, accepted] - 1993
WOTRO [offer, accepted] - 1997
NWO-Talent [offer, accepted] - 1997
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung [offer, declined] - 1998
Land Brandenburg [offer, accepted] - 2006
DFG [offer, accepted]
Fieldwork
- 1987-88
Amsterdam [Papiamentu, Saramaccan] - 1989
Siloah, Jamaica [Jamaican] - 1990-96
Amsterdam [Saramaccan] - 1991
Montreal, Canada [Haitian] - 1993
Paramaribo, Surinam [Saramaccan] - 2000
Madison, USA [Pennsylvanian German] - 2007
Kingston, Jamaica [Jamaican] - 2009
Trou Aux Biches, Mauritius [Mauritian] - 2012
Quartre Bornes, Mauritius [Mauritian]
