President-Elect of the SPCL: Marlyse Baptista
Marlyse Baptista has been elected Vice-President (2009-2011) and President-Elect (2011-2013) for the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. She was elected at the SPCL conference that took place in Cologne, Germany in August 2009.
Marlyse presented a paper entitled “Evolution of verbal and nominal morphology in four Lusophone Creoles” at the SPCL conference in Cologne, Germany in August 2009. She also participated in a panel on Fieldwork Ethics at the same conference.