Andrei Viktorovich Iakovlev

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Dr. Andrei Viktorovich Iakovlev
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for African Studies 
Ulitsa Spiridonovka
30/1
103001 Moscow
Russia

Home address:
Dolgorukovskaya ulitsa
5-212
103006 Moscow
Russia


phone:   (7-095) 250-41-61 (h); (7-095)202-05-91 (w), 
	 (7-095) 290-2752 (w)
fax:     (7-095) 202-07-86 (attn. Dr. A. Iakovlev)
e-mail:  aiakovl@inafr.msk.su

Education:  

1. The faculty of letters (French; Structural and Applied Linguistics) of
Moscow State University (1983); 2. The faculty of USSR Foreign Policy and
International Relations of Moscow University of Marxism-Leninism (1987). 
Doctor of Philosophy (1992, S.-Petersburg State University, the faculty of
letters: The Phonemic System of the Modern Afrikaans, 290 p.) 

Languages: 

English, French, Esperanto -- fluent. Many times made presentations in
these languages. In 1996 worked in New Delhi (India) as an interpreter
(English, Russian). Experience in simultaneous translation from Russian
into English, from English into Russian, from Russian into French, from
French into Russian. A little experience of simultaneous translation from
French into English and vice versa. More practice in BSE than in ASE. See
below about teaching English. 

Afrikaans -- Fluent due to having stayed in Afrikaans speaking families in
South Africa and Namibia, but restricted to every day life + several
academic topics, due to a rather small vocabulary. Large experience in
giving an elementary course (see below).

Spanish, Portuguese, Italian -- mostly to read. Survival level of
colloquial Spanisn (had no language problems in Spain). Rumanian --
survival formerly, no practice since 1983. Dutch, German -- elementary to
read academic texts. In Germany spoke German only when could not choose
another language.

Professional experience:

Took part in 5 scientific expeditions: in Kirghizstan and Kazakhstan, on
the Dungan language in 1978, 1979 and 1981;  on the signal system of
flippers in 1982 (Institute of Acoustics of the Academy of Sciences of the
USSR), on archeology in 1990.  After graduation from Moscow State
University (1983) worked as an engineer in the experimental phonetics
laboratory at the faculty of letters of the same University.  In 1986
-1987 taught Afrikaans in the Institute of the Countries of Asia and
Africa.  In 1988-89 -- a research fellow, then a senior research fellow of
the Perestroika small enterprise.  In 1989 joined the Polyglot small
enterprise to teach English. 

Since April 1989 -- tutor of Afrikaans at the Higher Courses for Foreign
Languages of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  1989 - 1993 -- tutor of
Afrikaans in the Diplomatic Academy of the MFA of Russia. 

Affiliated with University of Pretoria.  In 1994 travelled to Angola,
Namibia and South Africa and gave lectures at the University of Namibia
and Potchefstroom University. In March and April 1996 gave lectures on
Russian political history since 1917, social anthropology and general
phonetics at the University of Pretoria. In May 1996 spoke and published
an abstract at the Second International Conference on Mathematical
Linguistics at the University of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). In 1997
presented papers at the 35th International Congress of Asian and North
African Studies (Section Sanskrit Studies) in Budapest, 16th International
Congress of Linguists in Paris (abst. published), 2d World Congress of
African Linguistics in Leipzig (abst. published). 


Teaching:

General linguistics; teaching or lecturing on general
phonetics/phonology; phonemic system in modern Afrikaans; the phonological
typology of verse.

Also interested in giving a course IN RUSSIAN on Russian Poetry of the
Silver Age. 


Selected publications:

46 publications in Russian, 3 in English, 1 in French, and 1 in Portuguese
on linguistics, poetics and social anthropology.  Here are only a few: 

1. Afrikaans and Language Processes in South Africa. - Printed. - Africa:
Culture and Society. - Proc. of Session of USSR Academy of Sciences'
African Council. Issue 1. Moscow, Nauka Publishers. - 1988.

2.  Afrikaans Boundary Signals Dependent on Variability of Pronunciation.
- Printed. - Voprosy Yazykoznaniya. - Moscow. - 1990.

3.  Experience of Compact Description of Main Word Order Rules of Modern
Afrikaans. - Printed. - Studies on History and Present Functioning of
National Languages. - Moscow. Publishers of the Academy of Diplomacy
Attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. -
1991.

4.  Forming of Two Sub-ethnoi of Afrikaner Ethnos (Some Questions of
Afrikaner Military History and the Present Political Situation in the
RSA). - Printed. - Afrika:  Culture, Ethnicity, Language. - Moscow. Nauka
Publishers. - 1991.

5.  Phonemic System of Modern Afrikaans. - Manuscript. - Thesis for Ph.D.
Grade (kandidat filologicheskikh nauk). - Leningrad: State University. -
1991. - 12 (290 pages).

6.  Accentological Phonology and Phonetic Variability of Unstressed
Monophthongues in Modern Afrikaans. - Printed. - Proc. of the 11th Conf. 
of Young Scholars (Inst for Language Studies of Russian Academy of
Sciences). - St.Petersburg, Nauka Publishers. - 1992.

7.  Ethnopsychological Difference Between Two Groups of Afrikaners in
Late 19th and Early 20th Century. - Printed. - Africa: Culture and
Society. Traditions and Present Day. - Moscow. Africa Inst. of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. - 1994.

8.  "Literature". - Chapter in Reference Book "The Republic of South
Africa". - Printed. - Moscow. Russian Academy of Sciences "Vostochnaya
Literatura"  Publishers. - 1994. - Ps.241-252.

9.  New Patterns in the Afrikaans Language Movement (Afrikaanse
taalbeweging):  Results of Trip through Namibia and South Africa in 1994).
- Printed. - Problems of African Linguistics. - Proc. of Conf. in
Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Section for African Language
Studies. - Moscow. Inst. of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of
Sciences. - 1995. - Ps.187-192.

10.  Structural Shift in Afrikaners' Ethnolinguistical Self-Conception in
the Post- totalitarian Societies of South Africa and Namibia. - Printed. -
Ethnic and Language Self-Conception. Proc. of Conf. (Moscow, 13 - 15 Dec.
1995). Moscow. Inst. of Peoples of Russia. - 1995. - Ps.170-171.

11.  A Comparative Phonological Study of Nasal Vowels: the Case of French,
Icelandic, Chinese, Portuguese and Afrikaans. - Printed. -16th
International Congress of Linguists (Paris, July, 20- 25 1997). 
Abstracts. - Paris, CNRS. - 1997. - P.120. /* In English and French */

12. The Vowel System of Afrikaans - Printed. -2nd World Congress of
African Linguistics at the University of Leipzig, Germany (27th July ~ 3d
August 1997):  Abstracts. - P.30. /* In English */

13. A Note on Geopolitical Variants of Afrikaner Autonomy. - Africa in a
Changing World: 7th All-Russia Conf. of Africanists (Moscow, 1-3 October,
1997): Abstracts. - Russian Academy of Sciences: Inst. for African
Studies. - Vol.2. - P.81-83. /* Only in the Russian Version (blue
coverpage) */