Marlyse Baptista and Eric Brown spent time this summer in Cape Verde recording Cape Verdean Creole speakers on the islands of Santiago and São Vicente.  This trip also launched a long term project to digitize and and post recordings of Cape Verdean Creole on the web.

Working with linguists Emanuel de Pina from the University of Cape Verde and Saidu Bangura from the University of Santiago, the Michigan linguists collected comparative morpho-syntactic data from informants all over the two islands.  Eric remained in Cape Verde for an additional 3 weeks conducting sociolinguistic interviews and collecting recorded word lists.  Both researchers are grateful to their collaborators and colleagues who made the long trip worthwhile and look forward to continued work in the area.  Keep an eye out for future presentations and publications!

Marlyse and Eric also want to acknowledge and express gratitude for the support of the Department of Linguistics, the African Studies Center and the International Institute.  Marlyse received an African Heritage Initiative Seed Grant from the African Studies Centerto help support this work

This entry was posted on Monday, October 19th, 2009 at 9:59 am and is filed under Graduate, Language Documentation, Reports.