Publications

(pre-prints here https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/evangelia-adamou)


Books

  1. Adamou E. (in press, 2024). Endangered Languages. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press [Essential Knowledge Series].
  2. Adamou E., B. Bullock & A. J. Toribio. 2024 (Published August 29, 2023). Understanding Language Contact. London & New York: Routledge [Understanding Language series].
  3. Breu, W., E. Adamou & L. Scholze. 2023. Slavische Mikrosprachen im absoluten Sprachkontakt. Teil II: Burgenlandkroatische, obersorbische und balkanslavische Texte. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  4. Adamou E. 2021. The Adaptive Bilingual Mind: Insights from Endangered Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  5. Adamou E. 2016. A Corpus-driven Approach to Language Contact. Endangered Languages in a Comparative Perspective. Boston & Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton [Language Contact and Bilingualism Series].
  6. Adamou E. 2006. Le nashta. Description d’un parler slave de Grèce en voie de disparition. Munich: Lincom.

Edited books

  1. Adamou E. & A. Sobolev (eds). (under contract). Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area. Boston & Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.
  2. Adamou E. & Y. Matras (eds). 2021. The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact. London: Routledge.
  3. Adamou E., K. Haude & M. Vanhove (eds). 2018. Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in Prosody and Syntax. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins [Studies in Language Companion Series].
  4. Adamou E. (ed.) 2008. Le patrimoine plurilingue de la Grèce. Leuven: Peeters.

Papers 

  1. Blasi D. E., J. Henrich, E. Adamou, D. Kemmerer & A. Majid. 2022. Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science (Feature Review article). Trends in Cognitive Sciences 26(12): 1153-1170. Open access 
  2. Adamou E., Q. Feltgen & C. Padure. 2021. A unified approach to the study of language contact: Cross-language priming and change in adjective/noun order. International Journal of Bilingualism 25(6): 1635-1654. preprint DOI  
  3. Adamou E. & Y. Haendler. 2020. An experimental approach to nominal tense: Evidence from Pomak (Slavic). Language 96(3): 507–550. Open access
  4. Acuña Cabanzo E., E. Adamou & A. Sutre. 2020 (appeared in 2023). Contact-induced change and mobility: A cross-disciplinary approach to Romani in Latin America. Language Ecology 4(2): 133-150. DOI Preprint
  5. Calderon E., S. De Pascale & E. Adamou. 2019. How to speak ‘geocentric’ in an ‘egocentric’ language: A multimodal study among Ngigua-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in a rural community of Mexico. Language Sciences 74: 24–46. Sebeok-Love Award for the best article in language science 2019. DOI Access here
  6. Adamou E. & R. X. Shen. 2019. There are no language switching costs when codeswitching is frequent. International Journal of Bilingualism 23(1): 53–70. DOI
  7. Adamou E., De Pascale S., Garcia-Markina Y. & C. Padure. 2019. Do bilinguals generalize estar more than monolinguals and what is the role of conceptual transfer? International Journal of Bilingualism 23(6): 1549–1580. DOI
  8. Padure C., S. De Pascale & E. Adamou. 2018. Variation between the copula si ‘to be’ and the l-clitics in Romani spoken in Mexico. Romani Studies 28(2): 263–292. DOI
  9. Adamou E. 2017. Subject preference in Ixcatec relative clauses. Studies in Language 41(4): 872–913. DOI
  10. Adamou E. & R. X. Shen. 2017. Beyond language shift: Spatial cognition among the Ixcatecs in Mexico. Journal of Cognition and Culture 17(1-2): 94–115. DOI
  11. Adamou E., Breu W., Scholze L. & R. X. Shen. 2016. Borrowing and contact intensity: A corpus-driven approach from four Slavic minority languages. Journal of Language Contact 9(3): 515–544. DOI
  12. Adamou E. & K. Granqvist. 2015. Unevenly mixed Romani languages. International Journal of Bilingualism 19(5): 525–547. DOI
  13. Adamou E. 2014. L’antipassif en ixcatèque. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 109(1): 373–396.
  14. Adamou E. & A. Arvaniti. 2014. Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane (Illustrations of the IPA). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 44(2): 223–231. DOI
  15. Michailovski B., Michaud A., Mazaudon M., Guillaume S., François A. & E. Adamou. 2014. Documenting and Researching Endangered Languages: The Pangloss Collection. Language Documentation and Conservation 8: 119–135.
  16. Adamou E. 2013. Replicating Spanish estar in Mexican Romani. Linguistics 51(6): 1075–1105. DOI
  17. Adamou E. & D. Costaouec. 2013. El complementante la en ixcateco: marcador de cláusula relativa, completiva y adverbial. Amerindia 37(1): 193–210.
  18. Adamou E. 2011. Temporal uses of definite articles and demonstratives in Pomak (Slavic, Greece). Lingua 121(5): 871–889. DOI
  19. Adamou E. 2010. Bilingual speech and language ecology in Greek Thrace: Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish. Language in Society 39(2): 147–171. DOI
  20. Adamou E. & D. Costaouec. 2010. Connective constructions in the world’s  languages: A functionalist approach. La Linguistique 46(1): 53–90.
  21. Adamou E. 2009. Le marquage différentiel de l’objet en nashta et en pomaque (Grèce). Retour sur l’hypothèse du contact. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 104(1): 383–410.
  22. Adamou E. 2008. Aux traces d’une dégrammaticalisation : le médiatif en pomaque (Grèce). Revue des Etudes Slaves 79(1–2), 177–189.
  23. Adamou E. 2005. Du contexte sociolinguistique à l’exception dans deux grammaires du grec moderne. Faits de Langue  23: 71–74.
  24. Adamou E. 2004. La personne en našta. Approche comparative avec le bulgare littéraire et le macédonien. La Linguistique 40(2) : 03–124.
  25. Adamou E. 2003. Le rôle de l’imaginaire linguistique dans la néologie scientifique à base grecque en français. La Linguistique 39(1): 99–110.
  26. Adamou E. 2002. De la stabilité de l’imaginaire linguistique. Langage et Société 99: 77–95.

Chapters

  1. Adamou E. (to appear). The Popolocan languages. S. Wichmann (ed.), Languages and Linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America: A Comprehensive Guide. Boston & Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter [The World of Linguistics series].
  2. Adamou, E. 2023. Experimental methods to study cultural differences in linguistics. Zufferey S. & P. Gygax (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics, 458-472. London: Routledge. preprint 10.31234/osf.io/pnqmh
  3. Matras Y. & E. Adamou. 2023. Word classes in language contact. E. van Lier (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes, 887-898. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  4. Adamou E. & T. Nikitina. 2023. La diversité linguistique et ses limites. Un monde commun. Comprendre le monde pour mieux l’habiter ensemble : les savoirs des humanités et des sciences sociales, 180-183. CNRS Editions.
  5. Adamou, E. 2022. Pomak. Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online (ESLL). M. Greenberg (ed). Brill. First published online
  6. Adamou E.  2021. How sentence processing sheds light on mixed language creation. M. Mazzoli & E. Sippola (eds), New Perspectives on Mixed Languages. From Core to Fringe, 93-119. Boston & Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.
  7. Matras Y. & E. Adamou. 2021. Borrowing. Adamou E. & Y. Matras (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact, 237-251. London: Routledge.
  8. Matras Y. & E. Adamou. 2020. Romani and contact linguistics. In Y. Matras & A. Tenser (eds), Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, 329-352. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  9. Adamou E. & Y. Matras. 2020. Romani syntactic typology. In Y. Matras & A. Tenser (eds), Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, 187-227. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  10. Adamou E., O. Crasborn, J. Webster  & U. Zeshan. 2019. Forces shaping sign multilingualism. U. Zeshan & J. Webster (eds). Sign Multilingualism, 1-22. Berlin & Nijmegen: Mouton de Gruyter & Ishara Press [Sign Language Typology Series].
  11. Adamou E. 2019. Corpus linguistic methods. In J. Darquennes, J. Salmons & W. Vandenbussche (eds), Language Contact: An International Handbook, 638–653. Boston & Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science Series].
  12. Adamou E., M. Gordon & S. Th. Gries. 2018. Prosodic and morphological focus marking in Ixcatec (Otomanguean). In E. Adamou, K. Haude & M. Vanhove (eds), Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in Prosody and Syntax, 51–83. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins [Studies in Language Companion Series].
  13. Adamou E., K. Haude & M. Vanhove. 2018. Investigating information structure in lesser-known and endangered languages. An introduction. Adamou E., K. Haude & M. Vanhove (eds), Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in Prosody and Syntax, 1–13. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins.
  14. Adamou E. & D. Fanciullo. 2018. Why Pomak will not be the next Slavic literary language. In D. Stern, B. Belić & M. Nomachi (eds), Linguistic regionalism in Eastern Europe and beyond: minority, regional and literary microlanguages, 40-65. Bern: Peter Lang.
  15. Adamou E. 2017. Spatial language and cognition among the Ixcatec-Spanish bilinguals (Mexico). In K. Bellamy, M. Child, A. Muntendam & M. C. Parafita Couto (eds.), Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, 175–209. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins [Series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics].
  16. Adamou E. 2015. Distance in tensed nominals: A typological perspective. In B. Sonnenhauser & A. Meermann (eds), Distance in Language, 69–94. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  17. Adamou E. 2013. Change and variation in a trilingual setting. Evidentiality in Pomak (Slavic, Greece). In I. Léglise & C. Chamoreau (eds), The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings: Morphosyntactic Studies, 229–252. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins.
  18. Adamou E. 2012. Social networks in Greek Thrace: Language Shift and Language Maintenance. In J. Lindstedt & M. Wahlström (eds), Balkan Encounters: Old and New Identities in South-Eastern Europe, 7–32. Helsinki: Slavica Helsingiensia.
  19. Adamou E. 2012. Le parfait avec ‘avoir’ dans l’aire balkanique : approche multifactorielle et diversifiée d’un balkanisme. In C. Chamoreau & L. Goury (eds), Conséquences linguistiques du contact de langues et changements linguistiques. Tendances dans le domaine de la prédication, 101–119. Paris: CNRS éditions.
  20. Adamou E. 2012. Verb morphologies in contact: evidence from the Balkan area. In M. Vanhove, T. Stolz, H. Otsuka & A. Urdze (eds), Morphologies in Contact, 143–162. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
  21. Adamou E. 2010. Deixis and temporal subordinators in Pomak (Slavic, Greece). In I. Bril (ed.), Clause-Linking and Clause-Hierarchy: Syntax and Pragmatics, 399–420. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins.
  22. Adamou E. 2008. Introduction. In E. Adamou (ed.), Le patrimoine plurilingue de la Grèce, 15–30. Leuven, Peeters.
  23. Adamou E. & G. Drettas. 2008. Slave.In E. Adamou (ed.), Le patrimoine plurilingue de la Grèce, 107–132. Leuven: Peeters.
  24. Adamou E. 2008. Arménien. In E. Adamou (ed.), Le patrimoine plurilingue de la Grèce,  71–76. Leuven: Peeters.
  25. Adamou E. 2006.Temps et espace en našta. In S. Naïm (ed.), Rencontre du temps et de l’espace, 105–119. Leuven: Peteers.
  26. Adamou E. 2005. Typologie de la syntaxe connective en našta. In C. Clairis, C. Chamoreau, D. Costaouec, F. Guérin (eds), Typologie de la syntaxe connective, 171–182. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes.

Proceedings

  1. Adamou E. 2021. How diaspora shaped Romani throughout the centuries: From India, to Europe, and to the Americas. Proceedings of the Foundation for endangered languages conference XXV, Dec 2021, Tirana, Albania.
  2. Adamou E. 2015. A corpus-driven analysis of Romani in contact with Turkish and Greek. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), E. Torgersen, S. Hårstad, B. Mæhlum & U. Røyneland (eds), 1–16. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins [Studies in Language Variation series].
  3. Adamou E. & W. Breu. 2013. Présentation du programme Euroslav2010 : Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Deutschen Sammelband für den Internat. Slavistenkongress in Minsk. Beiträge 15, S. Kempgen, M. Wingender, N. Franz, and M. Jakiša (eds), 13–23. Muenchen, Berlin & Washington: Verlag Otto Sagner.
  4. Breu W. & Adamou E. 2011. Slavische Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas. Das deutsch–französische Gemeinschaftsprojekt EuroSlav 2010, Slavistische Linguistik 2010. Referate des Konstanzer Slavistischen Arbeitstreffens, ed. S. Kempgen & T. Reuther, 53–84. Muenchen & Berlin: Verlag Otto Sagner.
  5. Adamou E. 2011. A temporal set of uses of the deictic suffixes in a Pomak variety, Greece, Pre-proceedings of the 11th International Balkan Conference, ed. M. Makarcev, I. Sedakova & T. Civjan, 194–198. Institute for Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.
  6. Arvaniti A. & E. Adamou. 2011. Focus expression in Romani, Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 28), M. Byram Washburn et al., 240–248. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com, document #2456.
  7. Adamou E. & A. Arvaniti. 2010. Language–specific and universal patterns in narrow focus marking in Romani. Speech Prosody 2010, 100086: 1–4.
  8. Adamou E. 2007. The jimam perfect in Nashta. Bălgarckite octrobi na Balkanite, P. Assenova et al. (eds), Proceedings Bulgarian “islands” on the linguistic map of the Balkans, 87–94. Sofia: Figura.
  9. Adamou E. 2007. Grammaticalisation du parfait avec avoir dans quelques variétés slaves de Grèce. Proceedings of the 29e Colloque international de linguistique fonctionnelle, 1–5. Helsinki: Publications du Département des langues romanes de l’Université de Helsinki.
  10. Adamou E. 2006. Traitement de l’aspect dans les emprunts verbaux du našta au grec. Perspectives fonctionnelles : emprunts, économie et variation dans les langues, Lopez Diaz & Montes Lopez (eds), 141–143. Lugo: Axac.
  11. Adamou E. 2004. Synchronie dynamique de la confixation. Créoles, Langages et politiques linguistiques, C. Feuillard (ed.), Proceedings of the 26e Colloque international de linguistique fonctionnelle, 215–219. Berne: Peter Lang.
  12. Adamou E. 2002. Peut–on prévoir la dynamique lexicale ? L’Imaginaire linguistique, A-M. Houdebine (ed.), Proceedings of the Colloque International Imaginaire linguistique, 31–36. Paris: L’Harmattan.
  13. Adamou E. 2002. La graphie, indice de mots d’origine grecque en français contemporain ? Recherches en linguistique grecque, C. Clairis (ed.), 2 vol., Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, vol. 1, 35–38. Paris: L’Harmattan.
  14. Adamou E. 2002. L’opacité sémantique des lexèmes d’origine grecque dans le français contemporain. La linguistique fonctionnelle au tournant du siècle, Tatilon & A. Baudot (eds), Proceedings of the 24th International Conference of Functional Linguistics, 13–17. Toronto: Editions du GREF.
  15. Adamou E. 2001. L’Imaginaire linguistique des mots d’origine grecque en français contemporain. Proceedings of the 21st Conference of the Department of linguistics of Aristotle University, 1–8. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University Press.