Alexandra Vydrina Explained
Alexandra Vydrina (2 July 1988 - 16 September 2021)[1] was a Russian linguist and researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Paris) specializing in research on African languages of Guinea.[2]
Life and contributions
Vydrina received her education at St. Petersburg State University and in 2008 started working on the Kakabe language of Guinea, a Mande language spoken in the Fouta Djallon highland region. She was a doctoral student at INALCO (Paris), and had postdoctoral positions in the CNRS and at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow).
She completed a dictionary of Kakabe in 2015,[3] and a comprehensive grammatical description in 2017.[4] She also contributed to general questions of the interaction of tone and intonation with information structure, of modality, and of small-scale multilingualism from the perspective of her research on the Kakabe language.
Works
Major works on Kakabe
- 53. 1–253. Vydrina. Alexandra. Dictionnaire kakabé-français suivi d'un indexe français-kakabé. Mandenkan. 2015.
- Paris: INALCO. Vydrina. Alexandra. A corpus-based description of Kakabe, a Western Mande language: prosody in grammar. 2017. Available in open access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01801759
Further research articles
- 3. 86–105. Vydrin. Valentin. Vydrina. Alexandra. Impact of Pular on the Kakabe language (Futa Jallon, Guinea). Journal of Language Contact - THEMA. 2010. 10.1163/19552629-90000006. 143813204.
- 174–217. Vydrina. Alexandra. Лабильность в языке какабе. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana: MANDEICA PETROPOLITANA. 2011.
- Book: Vydrina, Alexandra. Le monde mandé: Pour le cinquantième anniversaire de Valentin Vydrin. Показатель пассива в северо-западных диалектах языка какабе. 2011.
- 10.4000/mandenkan.283. 0752-5443. 50. 147–170. Vydrina. Alexandra. Le comportement tonal des marqueurs prédicatifs dans la langue kakabé. Mandenkan: Bulletin semestriel d'études ličnguistiques mandé. 2013. free.
- Book: Нестор-История. 978-5-4469-0242-2. Vydrina. Alexandra. Vydrin. Valentin. От Бикина до Бамбалюмы, из варяг в греки: экспедиционные этюды в честь Елены Всеволодовны Перехвальской. Предварительные наброски к диалектологии какабе. 2014.
- Book: Vydrina, Alexandra. Benjamins. 379–406. From agent-oriented modality to sequential: The polysemy of the marker ni in Kakabe (Mande). Modes of modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar. Amsterdam. 2014.
- Book: Vydrina, Alexandra. Nestor-Istorija. 172–212. Jazyki mira: Jazyki Mande. Kakabe jazyk. St. Petersburg. 2017.
- 10.37892/2686-8946-2020-1-4-55-68. 1. 4. 55. Segerer. Guillaume. Vydrina. Alexandra. Sogolon. Language in Africa. 2020. 241540126. free.
- 10.1515/jall-2020-2005. 1613-3811. 41. 1. 99–145. Vydrina. Alexandra. Operator focus in discourse and grammar: The two perfectives in Kakabe. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 2020. 222316820.
- 10.1515/flin-2020-2029. 1614-7308. 54. 1. 133–166. Nikitina. Tatiana. Vydrina. Alexandra. Reported speech in Kakabe: Loose syntax with flexible indexicality. Folia Linguistica. 2020. 216554576.
- 10.1075/sl.18069.vyd. 44. 3. 501–547. Vydrina. Alexandra. Topicality in sentence focus utterances. Studies in Language. 2020. 225410192.
- 10.1177/13670069211023148. 1367-0069. 959–978. Vydrina. Alexandra. Fouta-Djallon linguistic ecology: Between polyglossia and small-scale multilingualism. International Journal of Bilingualism. 2021. 25. 4. 237829968.
Secondary sources
- Guillemain, Franck. 2019. Sasha Vydrina, la langue kakabé en Guinée. Documentary film. 17 minutes. https://www.canal-u.tv/video/cnrs_ups2259/sasha_vydrina_la_langue_kakabe_en_guinee.50573
- Konoshenko, Maria. 2021. In memoriam: Alexandra Vydrina (1988-2021). Language in Africa 2(3). 3–10. (doi:10.37892/2686-8946-2021-2-3-3-10)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: LINGUIST List 32.3032: All: Alexandra Vydrina. 27 September 2021.
- Konoshenko, Maria. 2021. In memoriam: Alexandra Vydrina (1988-2021). Language in Africa 2(3). 3–10.
- Vydrina (2015)
- Vydrina (2017)
