Evangelia Adamou
Biographic Data
| ID | 170045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evangelia Adamou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evangelia |
| FAMILY NAME | Adamou |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMOU E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6653-5070 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction to the Special issue ‘The Balkan Linguistic Area: Beyond the Core’
The Pangloss Collection: Opening up research data on endangered and underdocumented languages
In this article, we present the Pangloss Collection, a collection of digital corpora of (mostly) endangered or underdocumented languages, developed in France since the 1990s in the context of a global realization of the considerable potential of digital technologies. The Pangloss Collection currently hosts 1,180 hours of audio and video recordings of about 200 languages. These materials are archived for the long-term using a suite of French publi…
Dead or Alive: A Lifetime Effect of Pomak Nominal Tense in a Self-Paced Reading Experiment
Nominal tense is a cross-linguistically rare and understudied phenomenon, with past vs. non-past being the minimal distinction. In some languages, past nominal tense implies the reading 'deceased', while in others, lifetime effects (i.e., implicatures about whether an individual is dead or alive) restrict its use with permanent properties (as with kinship terms). In our study, we investigate for the first time the online processing of lifetime ef…
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
A unified approach to the study of language contact: Cross-language priming and change in adjective/noun order
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The connection between language contact and the bilingual speaker goes back to foundational authors in the field of contact linguistics. Yet there is very little work that combines these two levels in a single study. In this paper, we propose a unified approach to language contact by testing the role of cross-language priming (CLP) on contact-induced change at the level of complex noun phrases (NPs)…
Subject preference in Ixcatec relative clauses (Otomanguean, Mexico)
Subject preference in relative clauses (RCs) has been reported in typologically diverse languages, but overall one notes that the number of languages analyzed experimentally remains extremely low. This paper presents experimental and natural evidence from Ixcatec, a critically-endangered Otomanguean language. Ixcatec is relevant to the discussion on universal subject preference for having syntactically and morphologically ambiguous subject and ob…
The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact
An experimental approach to nominal tense: Evidence from Pomak (Slavic)
This article presents the first experimental evidence on nominal tense. Data are from Pomak, a Slavic variety that makes use of a deictic suffix for referents in the interlocutor’s sphere and for past-modal reference. Forty L1-Pomak participants completed an acceptability judgment task (in Pomak) and two reaction-time experiments using auditory stimuli (in L1 Pomak and in L2 Greek). In the Pomak reaction-time experiment, in particular, participan…
There are no language switching costs when codeswitching is frequent
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: There is ongoing discussion as to the cost of language switching, with some studies indicating high cost and others showing low or no cost. The main research question in this paper is whether there are language switching costs in communities in which codeswitching is frequent. Design/Methodology/Approach: We conducted two on-line experiments, that is, a picture choice with sentence auditory stimuli …
Do bilinguals generalize estar more than monolinguals and what is the role of conceptual transfer
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Among the questions that remain open is whether bilingualism leads to simplification of alternatives in language in order to reduce cognitive load. This hypothesis has been supported by evidence showing that bilinguals generalize the Spanish copula estar ‘to be’ faster than monolinguals. Yet, other studies found no such clear trend. While conceptual transfer could account for the conflicting evidenc…
How to speak "geocentric" in an "egocentric" language: A multimodal study among Ngigua-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in a rural community of Mexico
Variation between the copula si “to be” and the l -clitics in Romani spoken in Mexico
This research aims to investigate the innovative use of the subject clitic pronouns lo, la, le in attributive predications, e.g. O xabe lašo lo “The dinner is good,” in Romani spoken in the State of Veracruz, Mexico. The analysis of a 15-hour conversational corpus in Romani shows that the Romani copula si is used in variation with the subject clitic pronouns in l- in third person, affirmative clauses. In addition, 60 Romani-Spanish bilinguals fro…
Beyond Language Shift: Spatial Cognition among the Ixcatecs in Mexico
Recently there has been a renewed interest surrounding the role that language plays in the shaping of cognition based on the study of spatial relations with a particular attention to Mesoamerican languages. Since Brown and Levinson (1993), several studies have shown that speakers of Mesoamerican languages largely prefer non-egocentric strategies in the solution of nonverbal tasks and that this preference strongly aligns to the spatial expressions…
Borrowing and Contact Intensity: A Corpus-Driven Approach From Four Slavic Minority Languages
Numerous studies on language contact document the use of content words and especially nouns in most contact settings, but the correlations are often based on qualitative or questionnaire-based research. The present study of borrowing is based on the analysis of free-speech corpora from four Slavic minority languages spoken in Austria, Germany, Greece, and Italy. The analysis of the data, totalling 34,000 word tokens, shows that speakers from Ital…
Unevenly mixed Romani languages
This study reports on language mixing in two Romani communities, with a century-long presence in Finland and in Greece respectively. A quantitative analysis of free-speech data shows that verbs from the contact languages, Finnish and Turkish, are systematically inserted into a dominant Romani speech with their respective Finnish and Turkish tense, mood, aspect, and person morphology. The insertion in language A of non-integrated single words from…
Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane
Romani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in several European countries as well as in the Americas, Asia and Australia, showing substantial dialectal variation. This illustration deals with Xoraxane Romane (Turkish Romani) spoken in Greek Thrace. Xoraxane Romane, which belongs to the Vlax branch of Romani, has been heavily influenced by contact with Turkish and also shows influences from Greek. As a result, Xoraxane Romane exhibits a mixed system t…
Replicating Spanish estar in Mexican Romani
International audience
Temporal uses of definite articles and demonstratives in Pomak (Slavic, Greece)
Deixis and temporal subordinators in Pomak (Slavic, Greece)
Deixis expressed by three definite articles is a well-known characteristic of the Pomak varieties, given the absence of grammaticalized definite markers in most Slavic languages. In this paper, we present a practically unknown use of deixis in Slavic languages, namely the use of deictic suffixes in the formation of temporal subordinate conjunctions in Pomak. The deictic suffixes on the temporal subordinator indicate the relation between the proce…
Bilingual speech and language ecology in Greek Thrace: Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish
This article examines the influence of language ecology on bilingual speech. It is based on first-hand data from two previously undocumented varieties of Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish in Greek Thrace; in both cases Turkish is an important language for the community's identity. This analysis shows how the Romani-Turkish "fused lect" was produced by intensive and extensive bilingualism through colloquial contact with the trade language, …
Le marquage differentiel de l'objet en nashta et en pomaque (slave, Grèce)
Le marquage differentiel de l'objet (Bossong 1985 ; Lazard 2001) est un phenomene typologique assez courant et bien decrit dans les langues du monde. L'application de ce cadre d'analyse a des faits slaves meridionaux (Adamou 2006) apporte un eclairage nouveau : 1. Elle permet une analyse unifiee de ce phenomene syntaxique commun, quoique exprime par des moyens differents : par une unite casuelle (genitif-accusatif, ex. pomaque), par une unite pre…
Sur les traces d'une dégrammaticalisation: Le médiatif en pomaque (Grèce)
Tracking Degrammaticalization : Mediativity in Some Pomak Dialects in Greece The analysis of a corpus of tales in Pomak (Greece), reveals the use of a grammaticalized mediativity form by old speakers and the use of the perfect paradigm (mediativity strategy) by younger speakers. This loss goes through a phase of variation for the intermediate generation: loss of auxiliary is maintained in cases of repetition (intensive/ durative value); for incho…
De la stabilité de l'Imaginaire Linguistique
Le présent article tente d'aborder la question de la stabilité des représentations linguistiques à la lumière du modèle dit Imaginaire Linguistique, proposé par Anne-Marie Houdebine. Une analyse d'entretiens réalisés à propos de dénominations (à base grecque ou autochtone en français contemporain) met en évidence la possibilité de stabilité ou de fluctuation de ces attitudes (on parlera de "stabilité" ou de "fluctuation attitudinale"). Il s'agit …
Temporal uses of definite articles and demonstratives in Pomak (Slavic, Greece)
Bilingual speech and language ecology in Greek Thrace: Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish
This article examines the influence of language ecology on bilingual speech. It is based on first-hand data from two previously undocumented varieties of Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish in Greek Thrace; in both cases Turkish is an important language for the community's identity. This analysis shows how the Romani-Turkish "fused lect" was produced by intensive and extensive bilingualism through colloquial contact with the trade language, …
Replicating Spanish estar in Mexican Romani
International audience
Beyond Language Shift: Spatial Cognition among the Ixcatecs in Mexico
Recently there has been a renewed interest surrounding the role that language plays in the shaping of cognition based on the study of spatial relations with a particular attention to Mesoamerican languages. Since Brown and Levinson (1993), several studies have shown that speakers of Mesoamerican languages largely prefer non-egocentric strategies in the solution of nonverbal tasks and that this preference strongly aligns to the spatial expressions…
An experimental approach to nominal tense: Evidence from Pomak (Slavic)
This article presents the first experimental evidence on nominal tense. Data are from Pomak, a Slavic variety that makes use of a deictic suffix for referents in the interlocutor’s sphere and for past-modal reference. Forty L1-Pomak participants completed an acceptability judgment task (in Pomak) and two reaction-time experiments using auditory stimuli (in L1 Pomak and in L2 Greek). In the Pomak reaction-time experiment, in particular, participan…
How to speak "geocentric" in an "egocentric" language: A multimodal study among Ngigua-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in a rural community of Mexico
Variation between the copula si “to be” and the l -clitics in Romani spoken in Mexico
This research aims to investigate the innovative use of the subject clitic pronouns lo, la, le in attributive predications, e.g. O xabe lašo lo “The dinner is good,” in Romani spoken in the State of Veracruz, Mexico. The analysis of a 15-hour conversational corpus in Romani shows that the Romani copula si is used in variation with the subject clitic pronouns in l- in third person, affirmative clauses. In addition, 60 Romani-Spanish bilinguals fro…
Borrowing and Contact Intensity: A Corpus-Driven Approach From Four Slavic Minority Languages
Numerous studies on language contact document the use of content words and especially nouns in most contact settings, but the correlations are often based on qualitative or questionnaire-based research. The present study of borrowing is based on the analysis of free-speech corpora from four Slavic minority languages spoken in Austria, Germany, Greece, and Italy. The analysis of the data, totalling 34,000 word tokens, shows that speakers from Ital…
Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane
Romani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in several European countries as well as in the Americas, Asia and Australia, showing substantial dialectal variation. This illustration deals with Xoraxane Romane (Turkish Romani) spoken in Greek Thrace. Xoraxane Romane, which belongs to the Vlax branch of Romani, has been heavily influenced by contact with Turkish and also shows influences from Greek. As a result, Xoraxane Romane exhibits a mixed system t…
De la stabilité de l'Imaginaire Linguistique
Le présent article tente d'aborder la question de la stabilité des représentations linguistiques à la lumière du modèle dit Imaginaire Linguistique, proposé par Anne-Marie Houdebine. Une analyse d'entretiens réalisés à propos de dénominations (à base grecque ou autochtone en français contemporain) met en évidence la possibilité de stabilité ou de fluctuation de ces attitudes (on parlera de "stabilité" ou de "fluctuation attitudinale"). Il s'agit …
Sur les traces d'une dégrammaticalisation: Le médiatif en pomaque (Grèce)
Tracking Degrammaticalization : Mediativity in Some Pomak Dialects in Greece The analysis of a corpus of tales in Pomak (Greece), reveals the use of a grammaticalized mediativity form by old speakers and the use of the perfect paradigm (mediativity strategy) by younger speakers. This loss goes through a phase of variation for the intermediate generation: loss of auxiliary is maintained in cases of repetition (intensive/ durative value); for incho…
Le marquage differentiel de l'objet en nashta et en pomaque (slave, Grèce)
Le marquage differentiel de l'objet (Bossong 1985 ; Lazard 2001) est un phenomene typologique assez courant et bien decrit dans les langues du monde. L'application de ce cadre d'analyse a des faits slaves meridionaux (Adamou 2006) apporte un eclairage nouveau : 1. Elle permet une analyse unifiee de ce phenomene syntaxique commun, quoique exprime par des moyens differents : par une unite casuelle (genitif-accusatif, ex. pomaque), par une unite pre…
Deixis and temporal subordinators in Pomak (Slavic, Greece)
Deixis expressed by three definite articles is a well-known characteristic of the Pomak varieties, given the absence of grammaticalized definite markers in most Slavic languages. In this paper, we present a practically unknown use of deixis in Slavic languages, namely the use of deictic suffixes in the formation of temporal subordinate conjunctions in Pomak. The deictic suffixes on the temporal subordinator indicate the relation between the proce…
Bilingual speech and language ecology in Greek Thrace: Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish
This article examines the influence of language ecology on bilingual speech. It is based on first-hand data from two previously undocumented varieties of Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish in Greek Thrace; in both cases Turkish is an important language for the community's identity. This analysis shows how the Romani-Turkish "fused lect" was produced by intensive and extensive bilingualism through colloquial contact with the trade language, …
Temporal uses of definite articles and demonstratives in Pomak (Slavic, Greece)
Replicating Spanish estar in Mexican Romani
International audience
Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane
Romani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in several European countries as well as in the Americas, Asia and Australia, showing substantial dialectal variation. This illustration deals with Xoraxane Romane (Turkish Romani) spoken in Greek Thrace. Xoraxane Romane, which belongs to the Vlax branch of Romani, has been heavily influenced by contact with Turkish and also shows influences from Greek. As a result, Xoraxane Romane exhibits a mixed system t…
Unevenly mixed Romani languages
This study reports on language mixing in two Romani communities, with a century-long presence in Finland and in Greece respectively. A quantitative analysis of free-speech data shows that verbs from the contact languages, Finnish and Turkish, are systematically inserted into a dominant Romani speech with their respective Finnish and Turkish tense, mood, aspect, and person morphology. The insertion in language A of non-integrated single words from…
Borrowing and Contact Intensity: A Corpus-Driven Approach From Four Slavic Minority Languages
Numerous studies on language contact document the use of content words and especially nouns in most contact settings, but the correlations are often based on qualitative or questionnaire-based research. The present study of borrowing is based on the analysis of free-speech corpora from four Slavic minority languages spoken in Austria, Germany, Greece, and Italy. The analysis of the data, totalling 34,000 word tokens, shows that speakers from Ital…
Beyond Language Shift: Spatial Cognition among the Ixcatecs in Mexico
Recently there has been a renewed interest surrounding the role that language plays in the shaping of cognition based on the study of spatial relations with a particular attention to Mesoamerican languages. Since Brown and Levinson (1993), several studies have shown that speakers of Mesoamerican languages largely prefer non-egocentric strategies in the solution of nonverbal tasks and that this preference strongly aligns to the spatial expressions…
Variation between the copula si “to be” and the l -clitics in Romani spoken in Mexico
This research aims to investigate the innovative use of the subject clitic pronouns lo, la, le in attributive predications, e.g. O xabe lašo lo “The dinner is good,” in Romani spoken in the State of Veracruz, Mexico. The analysis of a 15-hour conversational corpus in Romani shows that the Romani copula si is used in variation with the subject clitic pronouns in l- in third person, affirmative clauses. In addition, 60 Romani-Spanish bilinguals fro…
There are no language switching costs when codeswitching is frequent
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: There is ongoing discussion as to the cost of language switching, with some studies indicating high cost and others showing low or no cost. The main research question in this paper is whether there are language switching costs in communities in which codeswitching is frequent. Design/Methodology/Approach: We conducted two on-line experiments, that is, a picture choice with sentence auditory stimuli …
Do bilinguals generalize estar more than monolinguals and what is the role of conceptual transfer
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Among the questions that remain open is whether bilingualism leads to simplification of alternatives in language in order to reduce cognitive load. This hypothesis has been supported by evidence showing that bilinguals generalize the Spanish copula estar ‘to be’ faster than monolinguals. Yet, other studies found no such clear trend. While conceptual transfer could account for the conflicting evidenc…
How to speak "geocentric" in an "egocentric" language: A multimodal study among Ngigua-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in a rural community of Mexico
The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact
An experimental approach to nominal tense: Evidence from Pomak (Slavic)
This article presents the first experimental evidence on nominal tense. Data are from Pomak, a Slavic variety that makes use of a deictic suffix for referents in the interlocutor’s sphere and for past-modal reference. Forty L1-Pomak participants completed an acceptability judgment task (in Pomak) and two reaction-time experiments using auditory stimuli (in L1 Pomak and in L2 Greek). In the Pomak reaction-time experiment, in particular, participan…
A unified approach to the study of language contact: Cross-language priming and change in adjective/noun order
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The connection between language contact and the bilingual speaker goes back to foundational authors in the field of contact linguistics. Yet there is very little work that combines these two levels in a single study. In this paper, we propose a unified approach to language contact by testing the role of cross-language priming (CLP) on contact-induced change at the level of complex noun phrases (NPs)…
Subject preference in Ixcatec relative clauses (Otomanguean, Mexico)
Subject preference in relative clauses (RCs) has been reported in typologically diverse languages, but overall one notes that the number of languages analyzed experimentally remains extremely low. This paper presents experimental and natural evidence from Ixcatec, a critically-endangered Otomanguean language. Ixcatec is relevant to the discussion on universal subject preference for having syntactically and morphologically ambiguous subject and ob…
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
Dead or Alive: A Lifetime Effect of Pomak Nominal Tense in a Self-Paced Reading Experiment
Nominal tense is a cross-linguistically rare and understudied phenomenon, with past vs. non-past being the minimal distinction. In some languages, past nominal tense implies the reading 'deceased', while in others, lifetime effects (i.e., implicatures about whether an individual is dead or alive) restrict its use with permanent properties (as with kinship terms). In our study, we investigate for the first time the online processing of lifetime ef…
Introduction to the Special issue ‘The Balkan Linguistic Area: Beyond the Core’
The Pangloss Collection: Opening up research data on endangered and underdocumented languages
In this article, we present the Pangloss Collection, a collection of digital corpora of (mostly) endangered or underdocumented languages, developed in France since the 1990s in the context of a global realization of the considerable potential of digital technologies. The Pangloss Collection currently hosts 1,180 hours of audio and video recordings of about 200 languages. These materials are archived for the long-term using a suite of French publi…
Linguistics (19 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (7 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (7 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (6 works) · Language contact (5 works)