Marlyse Baptista

Marlyse Baptista is a linguist specializing in morphology, syntax, pidgin and creole languages, language contact, and language documentation.^[1] Until 2022, Baptista was the Uriel Weinreich Collegiate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan,^[1] and now holds the position of President's Distinguished Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also currently the President of the Linguistic Society of America.^[2]