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.