Konstantin Pozdniakov


Konstantin Igorevich Pozdniakov is a Russian-French linguist who works on the comparative-historical linguistics of the Mande, Atlantic, and Niger-Congo families. He also works on Rongorongo of Easter Island.

Education

In 1974, Pozdniakov graduated from the West African Languages Department of Leningrad State University. In 1978, he defended his thesis at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR on the comparative study of Mande languages.

Career

From 1978-1982 he worked in 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 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 in Paris and a researcher at the LLACAN research unit of the French National Center for Scientific Research. From 2011–2016, he was a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Research interests