CURRICULUM VITAE: Dr. Dany Adone

NAME

Dr. Marie Carla Dany Adone

Nationality

Mauritian

CURRENT POSITION

General Linguistics, Department of General Linguistics.
Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

AGE

41

DATE OF BIRTH

February 12, 1962

ADDRESSES

Institut für Sprache und Information
Abteilung: Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft,
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Germany

Phone: +49 211 81 134 43
Fax: +49 211 81 11 32 5
E-mail: adone@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de

Tel: +49 211 22 92 273
Fax: +49 211 21 52 34

EDUCATION

1982-1986

M.A. student, reading Germanistik and Anglistik, Universities of Saarbrücken and Düsseldorf, Germany.

1987 - 1990

Ph.D. student, reading general linguistics and Germanistics, University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

LANGUAGES

Read: Finnish, Portuguese and Spanish.

QUALIFICATIONS

1986

M.A. (English Linguistics, German Linguistics and Literature) University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

1990

Ph.D. (General Linguistics and German Linguistics and Literature). University of Düsseldorf, Germany. Mark of dissertation: magna cum laude.

AWARDS

1979

Scholarship from Pädagogischer Austauschdienst, Germany.

1987

Scholarship to study Finnish in Kuopio, Finnland.

1992 - 1994

Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

GRANTS

1994

AIATSIS (Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) for a project on Language Acquisition of Kriol in the Northern Territory, Australia.

CONSULTANCIES

1994 - 1995

Advise Community on Language maintenance issues. Ngukurr Community, NT, Australia.

2/1997-8/1997

Acacia Community, NT, Australia.

1999 +

Indian Ocean Area Representative: Advise Mason Integrated Technology on issues of Creole linguistics and anthropology in the Indian Ocean.

APPOINTMENTS

1987-1989

Student-Assistant in Psycholinguistics, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

1989-1991

Research Fellow in Psycholinguistics, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

1992-1994

Research Fellow in Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft, University of Hamburg, Germany.

1994

Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia.

Lecturer in Linguistics, Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics, Batchelor College, Australia.

1994 -1997

Lecturer in Linguistics, Ngukurr Community, Australia.

1998-2002

Lecturer/researcher in Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft. University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

2002

Professor of General Linguistics

VISITING SCHOLAR POSITIONS

April - August 1997

Faculty of Education, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia.

September 1997

Institut d'Etudes Créoles, Aix-en-Provence, France.

1997- 1998

Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

1994

The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole. Amsterdam. Benjamins.

1994

Creolisation and Language Change. Tübingen. Niemeyer. - with Dr. Ingo Plag.

2003

Recent Development in Creole Studies. Tübingen. Niemeyer.

ARTICLES

20 articles on various topics : first language acquisition, Creole languages, acquisition and sign languages, creole and sign languages, varieties of English,

REPORTS

1997

The Acquisition of Ngukurr Kriol as a first language. Report for A.I.A.T.S.I.S., Canberra, Australia.

1998

Orthography Issues in Mauritius. ‘Chaos in Paradise’. Report in progress.

MULTIMEDIA

Forthcoming

English in Australia : Aboriginal English. In Varieties of World English. Ed. L. Todd (CD-ROM)

CONFERENCE PAPERS

October 1989

Empty Categories in Mauritian Child Language. Boston University Annual Conference on Language Acquisition, Boston, USA.

February 1990

The Acquisition of TMA Markers in Mauritian Creole : Evidence against Bickerton ? DGFS Tagung University of Saarbrücken, Germany.

October 1990

Wh-movement in Child Mauritian Creole : Evidence for Universal Grammar. Boston University Annual Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.

February 1992

For a DP analysis in Creoles. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaftler. University of Bremen, Germany.

June 1992

A Creole Language in a Multilingual Society : The Mauritian Experience. International Conference on Sociolinguistics at University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

June 1992

Creole Languages and Language Acquisition. Workshop on Aboriginal English, Pidgins and Creoles. ALI, University of Sydney, Australia.

September 1992

‘Pu’ in Creoles. 7ieme Colloque International des Études Créoles, Mauritius.

October 1992

IP and its Development in Early Mauritian Creole. Boston University Annual Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.

January 1993

The Development of Syntax in Mauritian Creole. Workshop in Cognitive Science at University of Hamburg, Germany.

June 1993

Reflexives in Mauritian Creole. Amsterdam Conference of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

July 1993

Creoles as Identity Markers. International Conference of Pragmatics. University of Kobe, Japan.

June 1994

Reflexivity in Kriol. Workshop on morphologie et Syntaxe des Langues Créoles, Aix-en-Provence, France.

July 1994

Yolgnu Sign Language ALI, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (w. M. Cooke).

March 1996

Another look at Creole Acquisition Data. Creole Conference. University of Westminster Workshop on Creolistics, London, England.

November 1997

The Acquisition of Serial Verb Constructions in Creole Languages. Boston University Annual Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.

January 1998

The Kriol Pronominal System, Creolization and Acquisition. Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages (SPCL) in conjunction with Linguistic Society of America (LSA). New York, USA.

March 1998

Functional Categories in the Development and Acquisition of Kreol Morisyen. Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft-Tagung in Halle. University of Halle, Germany.

March 1998

Kreol Morisyen and Seselwa in Education. 4^th International Creole Language Workshop. Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.

June 1998

Partial Restructuring in the Mental Lexicon, Second Language Acquisition and Creolization : A case study of Ngukurr Kriol. Symposium on Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, University of Regensburg, Germany.

April 1999

The lexicon in second language acquisition and its implication for creolization. XI^e Colloque international : Acquisition d’une langue étrangère. Université Paris III-Sorbonne nouvelle. France.

June 2001

Morphology in two Indian Ocean Creoles. Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages. Coimbra. Portugual.

INVITED LECTURES

May 1989

Some Aspects of Adult and Child Mauritian Grammar. University of Berkeley, Dept. of Psychology, San Francisco, USA.

October 1989

The Acquisition of Empty Categories in Mauritian Creole. University of Amherst, MA, USA.

May 1990

The Development of Tense and Aspect in Mauritian Creole. University of Aix-en-Provence, France.

December 1990

The Development of IP in Mauritian Creole. Workshop on Creole languages at University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

February 1991

INFL in Mauritian Grammar. Department of Linguistics. University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

November 1991

Sociolinguistics of Mauritian Creole. Department of Linguistics. University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

January 1992

The Development of Syntax. Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft. University of Hamburg, Germany.

June 1992

Null Subjects in a Creole language. Department of Linguistics. University of Amsterdam. The Netherlands.

October 1992

Creole Languages as Identity Markers. AIATSIS, Canberra, Australia.

November 1992

Syntax in Mauritian Child Language. Department of English. University of Hawaii, USA.

November 1995

Some Aspects of Syntax in Ngukurr Kriol. School of Language Studies, University of Westminster, London, England.

May 1996

Creolization and the Acquisition of Creole Languages. Faculty of Social Studies and Humanities. University of Mauritius, Mauritius.

August 1997

Creolization and First Language Acquisition. Towards a new model of Creole Genesis. Faculty of Education, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia.

June 1998

Second Language Acquisition and the Lexicon. Department of Linguistics. University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

October 1999

The Acquisition of serial verb constructions in Mauritian Creole : Implications for a theory of Creole Genesis. Invited lecture in the Department of English Language and Linguistics. University of Essex. England.

August 1999

First and second language acquisition in creole genesis. University of Durham. England.

June 2000

Methods of fieldwork in indigenous communities. National Heritage. Department for Anthropological Research. National Heritage, Mahe, Seychelles.

October 2000

With Professor V. Hookoomsing. Kreolite. Kolok Kreol. Anse aux Pins. Seychelles.

February 2001

Are Creole Children disobedient ? Binding Knowledge of Creole children. Habilkolloquium. University of Duesseldorf.

TEACHING

Topics: General linguistics (Syntax, phonology, & lexicon), Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Sign languages, Endangered languages, Anthropological Linguistics, Language Pathology, Issues in Second Language Acquisition, Acquisition theories, Linguistics of Aboriginal Languages of Australia, Language families and the origin of language, Linguistics of German Sign Language, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Sign language universals, bilingualism, and language attrition.

ADMINISTRATION

Other duties such as examining students, supervising MA and PH.D students, project leader, member of the curriculum development committee, co-organiser of summer courses, workshops, coordinator of research assistants, etc.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

(IAUPE) International Association of University Professors of English.

Koutwazi / Courtesy of The Creole Clearinghouse