Александр Желтов

Alexander Zheltov

PhD, Doctor of Philology

Date of birth: July 31,1967

Current position:
  • Professor and the Chair of the Department of African Studies, St. Petersburg State University,
  • the Head of the Department of African Ethnology, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of Russian Academy of Science.

Research interests:
  • African linguistics,
  • linguistic typology,
  • methods in African Studies,
  • Bantu languages,
  • Mande languages,
  • Adamawa languages,
  • nominal classification,
  • personal pronouns,
  • role marking typology,
  • ditransitive constructions,
  • systems of kinship terms.

Publications: more than 125 publications among which Niger-Congo languages:
  • structural-dynamic typology (St. Petersburg, 2008, in Russian).
  • Some elements of Gban language and linguistic typology. (In Mande languages and linguistics, St.Petersburg, 2008).
  • Brothers, sisters, and noun class typology: what is special about Niger-Congo? (In African Languages in Global Society, Cologne 2009).
  • 1 and 2 person in Niger-Congo languages: together or separately, and who is higher in the latter case. (In Personal pronouns in Niger- Congo languages, St. Petersburg, 2010.
  • What do personal pronouns mean, and what means do they use for that: specifics of Gban (South Eastern Mande) (In St. Petersburg Annual of Asian and African Studies, Wurzburg, 2012).
  • The coauthor of 6 collective monographs, the editor or coeditor of 11 books.

Membership in academic structures:
  • Academic Council of St. Petersburg State University,
  • Academic Council of the Faculty of Asian and African studies,
  • Dissertation Jury of the Faculty of Asian and African studies and Museum of Anthropology and Ethnograpy,
  • Academic Council of Museum of Anthropology and Ethnograpy, Council on the Problems of Africa (Russian Academy of Sciences),Editorial board of «St. Petersburg Annual of Asian and African Studies» and “Vestnik SPbGU,
  • Head of Master Program “Languages of Asia and Africa” at the Faculty of Asian and African studies

Expeditions:
  • Svanetia, Georgia (1989),
  • Cot d’Ivoire (2002, 2003),
  • Nigeria (2012, 2013, 2014),
  • Kenia-Tanzania (2013)