Valentin Feodosyevich Vydrin (also spelled Vydrine; ; born February 6, 1961, Belogorka,
Leningrad Oblast
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) is a
Russian Africanist. Until 2011, he was the head of the Department of Ethnography of African Peoples of the
Kunstkamera,
Professor
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, Doctor of Philology. He is a Graduate of the Department of African Studies of the Faculty of Eastern Studies of the
Saint Petersburg State University, where he was later a lecturer. He is an author of numerous scientific works, published in
Russian,
French, and
English, on the topic of
Mande languages
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, including dictionaries and treatises on grammatical features.
Since 2010, he lectures in
France
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, as a professor of Mande languages in the
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in
Paris
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.
His daughter,
Alexandra Vydrina (1988–2021), also was a linguist.
Works
* ''Manding-English Dictionary (Maninka, Bamana)''. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: Dimitry Bulanin Publishing House, 1999, 315 p.
* ''Mandé language family of West Africa: Location and genetic classification''. SIL Electronic Survey Report. Dallas, SIL International. (with T.G. Bergman and Matthew Benjamin), 2000
* On the problem of the Proto-Mande homeland // Вопросы языкового родства – Journal of Language Relationship 1, 2009, pp. 107–142.
* И опять — части речи в
бамана // Типологические обоснования в грамматике: К 70-летию проф. Храковского В. С. / Под ред. А. П. Володина. — М., 2004.
* Язык бамана: Учебное пособие. — СПб.: СПбГУ, 2008.
* Фонологический тип и именная морфология пра-манде. — СПб., 2001 (дисс.).
* Тональные системы языков манде: Краткий обзор // Вопросы языкознания. — 2003. — № 2.
* К реконструкции фонологического типа и именной морфологии пра-манде // Acta Linguistica Petropolitana — Труды Института лингвистических исследований. — СПб: Наука, 2006. — Том 2, Ч. 2. — С. 9-252.
* ''Выдрин В. Ф., Томчина С. И.'' Манден-русский (манинка, бамана) словарь. — СПб: Издательство Дмитрий Буланин, 1999. — Т. 1.
External links
Сайт выпускников СПбГУ*
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1961 births
Living people
People from Gatchinsky District
Linguists from Russia
Linguists of Mande languages
French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists
20th-century linguists
21st-century linguists
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University
Russian Africanists