Evangelia (Lila) Daskalaki
 
PhD, University of Cambridge
MPhil, University of Oxford
BA, University of Athens
 
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2E7, Canada
 
daskalak@ualberta.ca


 
 
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, at the University of Alberta, and the director of the ​Heritage Language Lab. For the 2023-2024 academic year I was a visiting scholar at the University of Athens. 

My research focuses on heritage language acquisition with an emphasis on the acquisition of syntax and its interfaces with morphology and discourse/pragmatics. In my current projects I study:

  • The interplay between morphological and syntactic development in heritage contexts
  • The linguistic and environmental factors that determine cross-linguistic influence across generations

In addition, due to my involvement with the Greek Language Schools of Edmonton, I am interested in the implications of this research for parents and teachers.