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.
ISBN9781614517610
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.
ISBN9780815363552
Adamou, Evangelia. 2021. The Adaptive Bilingual Mind: Insights from Endangered Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN9781108884266