2026
Multilingual Mauritius: Insights from Discourse, Interviews, and the Linguistic Landscape
Invited Talk for Wolfson College Humanities Society
2025
The Elephant and the Whale Speak Creole: Comparative linguistic analysis of a folktale from Mauritius and Louisiana
This study with Oliver Mayeux undertakes a comparative analysis of two historical folktales, one in Mauritian Creole (MC) and the other …
Introduction to Creole Languages
Co-lead with Mauritian colleague, Dr Tejshree Auckle for the Introduction to Creole languages
2023
Working with Creole data. A comparison of Mauritian and Louisiana Creole
Ecologies of Creole Multilingualism workshop
The role of language contact in the development of Mauritian Creole discourse markers
Talk at the SPCL Summer Meeting in Groningen
Discourse Markers based on dir ('to say') in Mauritian Creole
Talk given online at the SPCL Winter Meeting
2022
Language contact in the development of Mauritian Creole’s past markers
Talk given online at the workshop on Historical language contact and emergent/emerging varieties in the Indian Ocean in Bremen
2021
Influences on Mauritian Creole’s early development of past marking
Talk given online at the Societas Linguistica Europaea Annual Conference
2020
The Linguistic Landscape of Mauritius
Invited talk at the Linguistic Landscapes Conference in Düsseldorf
2019
Exploring the linguistic landscape of Mauritius and the function of Creole in the written domain
Talk given at the International Conference - Language Contact in Mauritius: Political, Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives.
