Davydov Artem V.

Address

St.Petersburg
199034
Universitetskaya emb., Build. 11

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Research Interests

Mande languages, Bamana/Bambara, Maninka/Malinke, Manding dialectology, N’ko written tradition, corpus linguistics, morphosyntax, Islamic exegesis in African languages, Ajami studies

Education

B. A. in Oriental and African Studies (2007). St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Oriental and African Studies, Department of African Studies. B. A. Thesis “A Sketch of Karanjan”.
M. A. in Oriental and African Studies (2009). St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Oriental and African Studies, Department of African Studies. M. A. Thesis “The Maninka Grammar Tradition in Souleymane Kante’s Works”.
PhD in linguistics (Kandidatskaya) (2012) “The emergence of the Maninka literary language”, St. Petersburg State University.
Complementary education program for university teachers (Arabic studies), St. Petersburg State University, 2013-2015.

Employment History

Since September, 2010 – Teaching Bamana and Maninka at St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Oriental and African Studies, Department of African Studies.
Since September, 2011 – Assistant lecturer of Maninka and Bamana at the same institution.
Since September, 2013 – Associate professor (docent), St. Petersburg State University.

Courses Taught

Bamana
Maninka (in the N’ko script)

Grants and Scholarships

2011 – Foundation for Fundamental Linguistic Research (Russia) grant to conduct a dialectological survey on Manding varieties in Guinea.
September-November, 2011 – visiting scholar at Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique noire (LLACAN), CNRS, Paris, France.
2013-2016 – a grant from St. Petersburg State University for the study of Manding dialectology in Guinea and Mali.
September, 2018 – February, 2019 – Fulbright visiting scholar at African Studies Center, Boston, MA.

Fieldwork

August, 2004. Stary Krym, Donetsk Region, Ukraine. Collecting data for the study of the TAM system of the Urum language.
August, 2005. Stary Krym, Donetsk Region, Ukraine. Collecting data for the study of the verbal system of the Urum language.
January-February, 2006. Abidjan, Cote d’Ivore. Collecting data for the study of the phonetics and phonology of the Karandian language (Manding).
June-July, 2010. Guinea and Mali. Collecting data on peripheral dialects of the Bamana language.
December, 2011-February, 2012. Guinea and Mali. Conducting a dialectological survey on Manding varieties in Guinea.
January-February, 2013. Guinea. Conducting a dialectological survey on Manding varieties in Guinea.
August, 2014. Guinea. Conducting a dialectological survey on Manding varieties in Guinea.
September, 2014. Mali and Burkina Faso.
July-August, 2015. Mali. Studying linguistic variability in Dougoukouna, Segou region.
January-February, 2017. Guinea. Collecting data on the Manding dialects of the Forest Guinea (konya, manya, gbeeka).

Conference Talks (selected)

May, 2005, St.Petersburg, Olderogge readings (paper: Verbal system of the Mandinka language).
May, 2008, Moscow, XI Conference of Africanists (paper: Metrical foot in Karadjan)
September, 2008, St. Petersburrg. Mande Languages and Linguistics. 2nd International Conference (paper: On Souleymane Kante's "Nko Grammar).
May, 2010, Valletta, Malta. Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010) (paper: The Manding Corpus: Texts Selection Principles and Metatext Markup).
Septerber, 2010, St. Petersburg. Personal pronouns in Niger-Congo languages. International workshop (paper: Historical morphology of personal pronouns in Manding).
January, 2011, Paris. Atelier sur le corpus bambara (paper: L’information metatextuel dans le corpus bambara).
September, 2011, Paris. Mande Languages and Linguistics. 3rd International Conference (paper: On Souleymane Kanté’s translation of the Quran into the Maninka (N’ko) Language).
September, 2013, Paris. Journées d’Etudes Mandenkan-50 (paper: Aperçu d’ensemble sur les dialectes mandingues de la Guinée).
September, 2014, Bobo-Dioullasso, Burkina Faso. Mande Languages and Linguistics. 4th International Conference (paper: Les dialectes mandingues de la Guinée Forestière).
August, 2015, Kyoto, Japan. WOCAL8 (paper: Linguistic aspects of Manding translations of the Quran).
August, 2017, Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast. Mande Studies Association Conference 2017 (paper: « L'histoire d'amour de Namori et Kaninba » : un roman didactique maninka/N'ko).

Publications (selected)

On Souleymane Kante's "Nko Grammar". In: Mande Languages and Linguistics: 2nd International Conference. Abstracts and Papers, St. Petersburg, 2008, pp. 53-60.
Script, phonetics and phonology of Manding languages in the works of the linguistic school of Nko. In: African Collection - 2009. St. Petersburg: Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, 2009, pp. 289-295 (in Russian).
Phonological foot in the Karandian language. In: Ed. V.A. Vinogradov. Papers on African linguistics. Issue 3. Moscow: Institute of linguistics, 2009, pp. 123-139 (in Russian).
Towards The Manding Corpus: Texts Selection Principles and Metatext Markup. In: Eds. Guy De Pauw, H.J. Groenewald, and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010). Valletta, Malta: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2010, pp. 59-62.
Historical morphology of personal pronouns in Manding . In: Personal pronouns in Niger-Congo languages. International workshop. Abstracts and papers. Working materials, St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press, 2010, pp. 23-37.
Notes on the Bamana dialect of the Bore village. In: Eds. E. Perekhvalskaya, A. Zheltov. Le Monde Mandé. A festschrift to Valentin Vydrin. Materials of the expeditions to West Africa (2001-…). St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoria, 2011, pp. 100-109 (in Russian).
Maninka grammatical tradition in Souleymane Kanté’s writings. In: Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Seria 12, 2, pp. 3-14; 3, pp. 31-41 (in Russian).
Manding dialects of Guinea and written Maninka. In: Between Niger and Congo, Saint-Petersburg, 2012, pp. 123-141 (in Russian).
On Souleymane Kanté’s translation of the Quran into the Maninka Language. In: Mandenkan N. 48, Paris: INALCO, 2012, pp. 3-20.
Adlam and Miriden – two new writing systems for Pular and Maninka in Guinea. In: African collection – 2013, pp. 296-307 (in Russian).
Mission report. The study of the Manding dialects in the prefectures of Middle Guinea, Upper Guinea and Forest Guinea from January, 21 to February, 20, 2013. Conakry : IRLA, 2013 (with Moussa Sayon Kourouma, in French).
The Manding variety of the village of Watagala (Guinea). In: A festschrift to Elena Perekhvalskaya. Saint-Petersburg, 2014, pp. 252-264 (in Russian).
Jalonka – an unknown Manding variety in Northern Guinea. In: Proceedings of the XI Conference on Languages of Far East, Southeast Asia and West. Saint-Petersburg, 2014, pp. 58-62 (in Russian).
The names of God in the translations of the Quran into Maninka and Bamana. In: African collection – 2015, pp. 386-429 (in Russian).
The N’ko grammar tradition and western linguistics. In: Revue Horizons Faculté des lettres et sciences du language, Conakry, 2015, N. 12, pp. 34-39 (in French).
Manding dialects of Guinea . In: Languages of the World. Mande languages, St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoria, 2017, pp. 164-172