Konstantin Pozdniakov
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| Born | Konstantin Igorevich Pozdniakov (1952-07-24) 24 July 1952 (age 71) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | CNRS |
| Main interests | Historical linguistics, Niger-Congo languages, Mande languages, Atlantic languages, Rongorongo |
Konstantin Igorevich Pozdniakov (born 24 July 1952, Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian-French linguist who works on the comparative-historical linguistics of the Mande, Atlantic, and Niger-Congo families.[1][2][3][4][5] He also works on RongorongoofEaster Island.
In 1974, Pozdniakov graduated from the West African Languages Department (in the Department of African Studies, Oriental Department) of Leningrad State University. In 1978, he defended his thesis at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow) on the comparative study of Mande languages.
From 1978-1982 he worked at the Soviet cultural mission in Dakar, Senegal. From 1982–1997, he was a researcher at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR / RAS (Kunstkamera) in Leningrad / St. Petersburg. In 1995, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the reconstruction of the grammar of Atlantic languages.
Since 1997, he has been a professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) in Paris and a researcher at the LLACAN (Languages and cultures of Africa) research unit of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). From 2011–2016, he was a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
