Evangelia Adamou

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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]

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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

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References

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  2. "Evangelia ADAMOU". LACITO. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  3. "Academia Europaea: Evangelia Adamou CV" . Retrieved 25 July 2022.
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  5. "Adamou, Evangelia - Persée". www.persee.fr. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  6. "Evangelia Adamou". scholar.google.fr. Retrieved 2022-10-13.