Tomelleri, V. S. NIKOLAY FEOFANOVICH YAKOVLEV’S PHONOLOGICAL THEORY AND ITS RECEPTION IN WESTERN LINGUISTICS. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2023;45(5):74–88. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2023.923


Theoretical, Applied and Comparative Linguistics

NIKOLAY FEOFANOVICH YAKOVLEV’S PHONOLOGICAL THEORY AND ITS RECEPTION IN WESTERN LINGUISTICS

Tomelleri
V. S. 		University of Turin , Saint Petersburg State University
Keywords:
history of Russian and Soviet linguistics
phonology
N. F. Yakovlev
western linguistics
Prague Linguistic Circle		 Summary: The article discusses the question of why the name of Nikolay Feofanovich Yakovlev (1892–1974) is almost never found in Western linguistic literature with respect to the history of phonological research. Different factors seem to have led to this unfortunate circumstance, which will be briefly taken here in consideration. Along with the language barrier, special attention should be paid to the erratic and rather applied character of his theoretical reflections, which were primarily used to create alphabets for the unwritten languages (not only) of the Caucasus as part of the Soviet language policy, as well as his moderate interest in Marr’s theory. No less important is the fact that the positions of the Prague Linguistic Circle, as they are set out in Nikolay Sergeevich Trubetzkoy’s Fundamentals of Phonology (1939), somehow negatively affected the reception of Nikolay Yakovlev in the West.



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