Alexandra Vydrina

Alexandra Vydrina
Александра В. Выдрина
Alexandra Vydrina collecting Kakabe language data in Saajoya village, Guinea
Born	(1988-07-02)2 July 1988
Died	(2021-09-16)16 September 2021
Nationality	Russian
Relatives	Valentin Vydrin (father)
Academic background
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
Thesis	A corpus‐based description of Kakabe, a Western Mande language: Prosody in grammar (2017)
Doctoral advisor	Martine Vanhove, Dmitry Idiatov
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Main interests	Mande languages

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

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

• Vydrina, Alexandra (2015). "Dictionnaire kakabé-français suivi d'un indexe français-kakabé". Mandenkan. 53: 1–253.
• Vydrina, Alexandra (2017). "A corpus-based description of Kakabe, a Western Mande language: prosody in grammar" (Document). Paris: INALCO. Available in open access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01801759

Further research articles

• Vydrin, Valentin; Vydrina, Alexandra (2010). "Impact of Pular on the Kakabe language (Futa Jallon, Guinea)". Journal of Language Contact - THEMA. 3: 86–105.
  S2CID 143813204
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• Vydrina, Alexandra (2011). "Лабильность в языке какабе". Acta Linguistica Petropolitana: MANDEICA PETROPOLITANA: 174–217.
• Vydrina, Alexandra (2011). "Показатель пассива в северо-западных диалектах языка какабе". Le monde mandé: Pour le cinquantième anniversaire de Valentin Vydrin.
• Vydrina, Alexandra (2013). "Le comportement tonal des marqueurs prédicatifs dans la langue kakabé". Mandenkan: Bulletin semestriel d'études ličnguistiques mandé (50): 147–170.
  ISSN 0752-5443
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• Vydrina, Alexandra; Vydrin, Valentin (2014). "Предварительные наброски к диалектологии какабе". От Бикина до Бамбалюмы, из варяг в греки: экспедиционные этюды в честь Елены Всеволодовны Перехвальской. Нестор-История.
  ISBN 978-5-4469-0242-2
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• Vydrina, Alexandra (2014). "Modes of modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar". From agent-oriented modality to sequential: The polysemy of the marker ni in Kakabe (Mande). Amsterdam: Benjamins. pp. 379–406.
• Vydrina, Alexandra (2017). "Kakabe jazyk". Jazyki mira: Jazyki Mande. St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istorija. pp. 172–212.
• Segerer, Guillaume; Vydrina, Alexandra (2020). "Sogolon". Language in Africa. 1 (4): 55.
  S2CID 241540126
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• Vydrina, Alexandra (2020). "Operator focus in discourse and grammar: The two perfectives in Kakabe". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 41 (1): 99–145.
  S2CID 222316820
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• Nikitina, Tatiana; Vydrina, Alexandra (2020). "Reported speech in Kakabe: Loose syntax with flexible indexicality" (PDF). Folia Linguistica. 54 (1): 133–166.
  S2CID 216554576
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• Vydrina, Alexandra (2020). "Topicality in sentence focus utterances". Studies in Language. 44 (3): 501–547.
  S2CID 225410192
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• Vydrina, Alexandra (2021). "Fouta-Djallon linguistic ecology: Between polyglossia and small-scale multilingualism". International Journal of Bilingualism. 25 (4): 959–978.
  S2CID 237829968
  .

• 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)

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