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]

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

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

• 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". Paris: INALCO. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) 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. doi:10.1163/19552629-90000006. S2CID 143813204.
• 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. doi:10.4000/mandenkan.283. ISSN 0752-5443.
• 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.
• 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. doi:10.37892/2686-8946-2020-1-4-55-68. S2CID 241540126.
• Vydrina, Alexandra (2020). "Operator focus in discourse and grammar: The two perfectives in Kakabe". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 41 (1): 99–145. doi:10.1515/jall-2020-2005. ISSN 1613-3811. S2CID 222316820.
• Nikitina, Tatiana; Vydrina, Alexandra (2020). "Reported speech in Kakabe: Loose syntax with flexible indexicality" (PDF). Folia Linguistica. 54 (1): 133–166. doi:10.1515/flin-2020-2029. ISSN 1614-7308. S2CID 216554576.
• Vydrina, Alexandra (2020). "Topicality in sentence focus utterances". Studies in Language. 44 (3): 501–547. doi:10.1075/sl.18069.vyd. S2CID 225410192.
• Vydrina, Alexandra (2021). "Fouta-Djallon linguistic ecology: Between polyglossia and small-scale multilingualism". International Journal of Bilingualism. 25 (4): 959–978. doi:10.1177/13670069211023148. ISSN 1367-0069. S2CID 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)

Notes

External links

• Page at CNRS-LACITO
• Page at Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie
• Page at Google Scholar