Evangelia Adamou Explained

Evangelia Adamou is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, specializing in language contact and endangered languages.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Adamou studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (MA 1997) and Paris Descartes University (PhD 2001).^[3] After working as a teaching assistant and then lecturer at Paris Descartes University, she became a junior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 2005, and was promoted to senior researcher in 2015.^{[4] [5]}

In 2022 Adamou was elected as an ordinary member of the Academia Europaea.^[4]

Research

Adamou's research centers on the analysis and description of under-described languages, with a focus on language contact and multilingualism, employing both corpus-based and experimental methods.^[6] She has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Balkans (on Romani and Balkan Slavic) and in Mexico (on Ixcatec and Romani).^[1] She is currently (2022–24) Principal Investigator on a major French-Russian joint project to create an atlas of the Balkan linguistic area, together with Andrey Sobolev.^[4]

Selected publications

• Adamou, Evangelia. 2010. Bilingual speech and language ecology in Greek Thrace: Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish. Language in Society 39 (2), 147–171.
• Michailovsky, Boyd, Martine Mazaudon, Alexis Michaud, Séverine Guillaume, Alexandre François, and Evangelia Adamou. 2014. Documenting and researching endangered languages: the Pangloss Collection. Language Documentation and Conservation 8, 119–135.
• Adamou, Evangelia, and Kimmo Granqvist. 2015. Unevenly mixed Romani languages. International Journal of Bilingualism 19 (5), 525–547.
• Adamou, Evangelia. 2016. A corpus-driven approach to language contact: Endangered languages in a comparative perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Adamou, Evangelia, and Xingjia Rachel Shen. 2019. There are no language switching costs when codeswitching is frequent. International Journal of Bilingualism 23 (1), 53–70.
• Adamou, Evangelia, and Yaron Matras (eds.). 2021. The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact. London: Routledge.
• Adamou, Evangelia. 2021. The Adaptive Bilingual Mind: Insights from Endangered Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Abralin Ao Vivo: Evangelia Adamou. 25 July 2022.
2. Web site: Evangelia ADAMOU . 2022-10-13 . LACITO . en-GB.
3. Web site: Academia Europaea: Evangelia Adamou CV. 25 July 2022.
4. Web site: Academia Europaea: Evangelia Adamou. 25 July 2022.
5. Web site: Adamou, Evangelia - Persée . 2022-10-13 . www.persee.fr.
6. Web site: Evangelia Adamou . 2022-10-13 . scholar.google.fr.