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

Biography

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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

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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

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  • 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. ISBN 9781614517610
  • 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. ISBN 9780815363552
  • Adamou, Evangelia. 2021. The Adaptive Bilingual Mind: Insights from Endangered Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108884266

References

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  1. ^ a b "Abralin Ao Vivo: Evangelia Adamou". Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Evangelia ADAMOU". LACITO. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  3. ^ "Academia Europaea: Evangelia Adamou CV". Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b c "Academia Europaea: Evangelia Adamou". Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Adamou, Evangelia - Persée". www.persee.fr. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  6. ^ "Evangelia Adamou". scholar.google.fr. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
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