Mukarrama Nabievna Qosimova (16 January 1933 – 2 October 2020) was a

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

i linguist and academic.

Biography

Born into a family of workers in Konibodom, Qosimova graduated from the Department of History and Philology at

Tajikistan State University Tajik National University is the largest university and the only national university in Tajikistan. It has been ranked as one of the most prestigious universities in Central Asia since its inception. The head office of the university is located ...

in 1955; the following year she joined the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),. Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС, ''KPSS''. at some points known as the Russian Communist Party (RCP), All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet ...

. She spent her entire career at her alma mater; from 1959 to 1966 she was a teacher, senior instructor, assistant professor, and professor at the institution. Between 1966 and 1968 she was dean of the Faculty of Philology; she held the post again from 1974 to 1977. She received a doctorate in linguistics in 1981, and became a professor in 1982; in 1986 she became head of the Department of the

Tajik Language Tajik, Tajik Persian, Tajiki Persian, also called Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by ethnic Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari of Afghanistan with which it forms a continuum of mutually inte ...

. This post she held until 1995, when she became Head of the Department of Language and Typography, a post which she held until 2003. Qosimova's most noted work is the monograph ''Sintaksi Jumlahoi Soddai Asri Yozdah'' (''The Syntax of Simple Sentences in the Prose Works of the Eleventh Century''), published in 1981; other publications include ''Matni Kelasiki'' (''Classical Text'', Dushanbe, 1971); ''Praktikum az Zaboni Tojiki'' (''Practical Work Based on the Tajiki Language'', Dushanbe, 1976); ''Jumlahoi Payravi Sharti dar Zaboni Adabii Tojik'' (''Conditional Sentences in Literary Tajiki Language'', Dushanbe, 1981). Qosimova was named a Distinguished Contributor to Education in Tajikistan in 1967. A member of the

Tajikistan Academy of Sciences Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, ; , incorporates 20 research institutes and three territorial groupings: the Pamir Branch in the eastern part of the country (with 2 institutes), the Khujand Scientific Center in the north, and ...

, she received numerous awards during her career, among them the

Medal "Veteran of Labour" The Medal "Veteran of Labour" () was a civilian labour award of the Soviet Union established on January 18, 1974, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to honour workers for many years of hard work in the national economy ...

and the

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" The Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" () was a state commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on November 5, 1969 to commemo ...

. Qosimova died in

Dushanbe Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...

on 2 October 2020.

References

1933 births 2020 deaths Linguists from Tajikistan Women linguists 20th-century linguists 21st-century linguists People from Konibodom Tajik National University alumni Academic staff of Tajik National University Members of the Tajik Academy of Sciences {{Tajikistan-bio-stub