Research interests
- Multilingualism and language policy
- Sociolinguistics and language variation
- Creolistics and language contact
- Language borders and multilingual border areas
- Colonial and postcolonial linguistics
- History of philology and racialism
- Phonology
- Pragmatics, primarily adhortatives and imperatives
- Regional focus: Overseas France, Caribbean and Indian Ocean, Belgium and the Netherlands, Saar-Lor-Lux region, Berlin
- Linguistic focus: French and other Romance languages, French-based Creoles and other Creole languages, Germanic languages (particularly Romance-Germanic contact or multilingualism)
Academic memberships and cooperations
- Sociolinguistic Studies: Member of the Editorial Board
- Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Member of the Editorial Advisory committee
- Viadrina Center B/Orders in Motion, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder (associated member)
- Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
- Society for Caribbean Linguistics
- Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola
- Deutscher Romanistenverband
- Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek
- Niederlandistenverband
- Research group Language and Discourse in the Caribbean (Universidad de Puerto Rico)
- French Colonial Historical Society / Société d’histoire coloniale française (Lifetime member)
- Zentrum „Sprache, Variation, Migration“
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