Dmitry Idiatov

Dmitry Idiatov is a Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) within the LLACAN laboratory (Language, Languages and Cultures of Africa), focusing on African Linguistics, particularly Mande and Adamawa languages. He holds a PhD in Linguistics and Literature from the University of Antwerp (2007), a Master's degree in Oriental and African Studies from Saint Petersburg State University (2003), and a Bachelor's degree in Oriental and African Studies from the same institution (2001). His research spans comparative/diachronic linguistics, typology, phonetics, and language documentation.

His scholarly work emphasizes interrogative pronominals, non-selective markers, and clause-final negation patterns. He explores diachronic typology, linguistic prehistory, and areal diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly through studies on labial-velar stops, nasal vowel systems, and logophoricity. He is actively involved in projects like the BULB initiative for under-resourced language documentation and serves on editorial boards for journals such as Folia Linguistica Historica and Mandenkan. His conference organization includes workshops on areal phenomena and negation patterns in African languages.

Contact: dmitry.idiatov@cnrs.fr. Official website: Dmitry Idiatov's Academic Profile.