Antonina Koval (1938–2017)

Leading Researcher, Department of African Languages

PhD

Had been employed at the Institute of Linguistics since 1971.

Research interests:
African studies, the Fula language, typology, oral literature, socio- and ethnolinguistics.

Graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology.
Worked at VINITI (Russian National Institute of Scientific and Technological Information, RAS), Department of Semiotics in 1963-1971.
Earned her PhD degree in 1976, thesis Semantic and grammatical principles of noun classification in Fula (Fouta Djallon dialect). Мoscow, Institute of Linguistics, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1976.

Published 150 academic papers.

Editor of the "Studies of the Languages of Africa" ongoing series (issues of 1995, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2015).
Permanent member of the organizing committee for linguistic sections of triennial Africanist international conferences (the last conference was held in May 2014).

Teaching career:

Delivered lectures on African studies, Fula studies, and typology in Moscow State Linguistic University, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Institute of African and Asian Studies), Russian State University of Humanities. Taught foreign languages at institutions of general education.

2005-2008 – served as a research advisor for student term papers at the Faculty of Philology, MSU.
2008-2009 – served as a research advisor for a diploma work at Faculty of Philology, MSU.
2014-2015 – served as a research advisor for a student term paper at the School of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Higher School of Economics.

Thesis guidance:

Advised five graduate students in their PhD theses.

  • 2009-2012
    Kosogorova, M. General principles of glossing for a corpus of a language recently put in writing: morphology of the Fula language. Moscow, Institute of Linguistics. 2012.
  • 1988-1991.
    Dyall, G. Paradigmatics and functioning of a pronominal system (in the Fula language). Moscow, Institute of Linguistics. 1991.
  • 1986-1989
    Traore, B. Structure and function of participles as a polycategorical word class. Moscow, Institute of Linguistics. 1989.
  • 1981-1984
    Cham, N. Nominal categories in the syntax of languages with nominal classes (in the Wolof language). Moscow, Institute of Linguistics. 1984.
  • 1980-1983
    Nyalibuli, B. Syntactical aspect of grammatical verb categories (in the Fula language). 1983.

Provided advisory and editor assistance for other graduate students of the Department of African languages, including foreign students from various African countries.

Research projects:

projects within the programs of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences RAS

  • Theoretical and technical support of the Fula language corpora. Principal Investigator. 2012-2014.
  • Development of Maia, Fula, and Polynesian languages corpora. 2014.
  • Linguistic aspects of folkloric and canonical text study in the African languages. 2009-2011.
  • Dynamics of the folkloric tradition in non-written languages and languages recently put into writing: linguistic and sociocultural aspects. 2006-2008.
  • Areal factors of variability and stability in the African languages. 2006-2008.

Projects funded by the Russian Foundation for Humanities

  • Diachronic processes and genetic relations between the African languages. 2010-2012.
  • Fundamentals of African linguistics. Syntax of nominal and verbal groups. 2005-2007.
  • Language norm and aesthetic canon. 2005-2007.
  • African fairy tale - III. On the African folklore studies. Principal investigator. 2005.
  • Fundamentals of the African linguistics. Lexicology and word derivation. 2003-2005.
  • Fundamentals of the African linguistics. The verb. 1999-2001.
  • Fundamentals of the African linguistics. Morphemics. Morphonology. 1996-1998.
  • The verb in the Fula language; a typological view. Principal investigator. 1997.

Member of the Institute of Linguistics special committee concerned with the theory and history of literary languages.

Antonina Koval passed away on May 17th, 2017, at the age of 78 years.

Selected publications

  • (being prepared for print) Studies in Pulaar-Fulfulde language and culture. P. 500.
  • Koval', A., Porxomovskij, V. & Vinogradov, V. Sociolingvističeskaja tipologija [Sociolinguistic typology]. 2nd edition, edited and extended. Moscow, URSS, 2008. P. 128.
    3rd edition. Moscow, URSS, 2009.
    4th edition. Moscow, URSS, 2014.
  • Afrikanskaja skazka – III. K issledovaniju jazyka fol’klora [African fairy tale - III. On the African folklore studies]. Koval', A (Ed.). Moscow, Vostočnaja literatura, 2005. P. 519.
  • Koval', A. & Njalibuli, B. Glagol fula v tipologičeskom osvečšenii [The Fula verb in the view of typology]. Moscow, Russkie slovari, 1997. P. 253.
  • Èpos i literatura ful’be [Epic in the Fula literature]. Moscow, Nauka, 1990. P. 238.
  • Koval', A. & Zubko, G. Jazyk fula [The Fula language]. Moscow, Nauka, 1986. P. 142.
  • Koval', A., Porxomovskij, V. & Vinogradov, V. Sociolingvističeskaja tipologija: Zapadnaja Afrika [Sociolinguistic typology: West Africa]. Moscow, Nauka, 1984. P. 128.
  • Gnalibouly, B. & Koval', A. Typologie de la voix en fulfulde: le passif // St. Petersburg Journal of African Studies. 1995. No 5. P. 33-46.
  • Gnalibouly, B. & Koval', A. Les questions controversées de la conjugaison verbale en peul // Bulletin des Études Africaines de l’INaLCO. 1982. II(4). P. 27-54.

Was a co-author of several academic papers.

  • O vnutrennej klassifikacii jazykovoj gruppy pular-ful’ful’de [On the inner classification of the Fula language group]. Vinogradov, V. (Ed.). Moscow, JaSK, 2014. P. 311-353.
  • Soglasovanie v imennoj gruppe pular-ful’ful’de [Linguistic coordination in the nominal group of the Fula language]. Vinogradov, V. (Ed). Moscow, Academia, 2010. P. 211-384.
  • Klassifikativnaja semantika i derivacija imen v pular-ful’ful’de [Qualificative semantics and noun derivation in the Fula language]. Vinogradov, V. (Ed). Moscow, Academia, 2008. P. 311-494.
  • Skazki ful’be: «Dialektnye polilingvy» i original’nye teksty [Fula fairy tales: "Dialect polylinguals" and original texts]. Koval’, A. (Ed.). Moscow, Vostočnaja literatura, 2005. P. 355-398.
  • Ba, A., Kibrik, A. & Koval', A. Skazanie «Ljubov’», ili «Dingiral», na jazyke pular [The "Love" saga or "Dingiral", in the Fula language]. A.I. Koval’, A. (Ed.). Moscow, Vostočnaja literatura, 2005. P. 399-479.
  • Kontrastivnost’ kak morfologičeskaja glagol’naja kategorija v pular-ful’ful’de [Contrast as a morphological verb category in the Fula language]. Moscow, Vostočnaja literatura, 2003. P. 357-459.
  • Morfemika pular-ful’ful’de [Morphemics of the Fula language]. Vinogradov, V. (Ed). Moscow, Vostočnaja literatura, 2000. P. 103-290.
  • Koval', A. & Traore, B. Skazki ful’be (Teksty i poslovnye perevody. Literaturnye perevody) [Fula fairy tales (Texts and word-by-word translations. Literary translations]. Vinogradov, V. (Ed.). Moscow, Vostočnaja literatura, 1997. P. 136-225; 348-388.
  • Imennye kategorii v pular-ful’ful’de [Nominal categories in the Fula language]. V.A. Vinogradov, V. (Ed.). Moscow, Aspekt Press, 1997. P. 92-220.
  • O nekotoryx osobennostjax povedenija pokazatelja klassa v jazyke s gromozdkoj klassnoj sistemoj [On some features of the class indicator behaviour in a language of a cumbrous class system]. Oxotina, N. (Ed.). Moscow, Nauka, 1987. P. 204-215.
  • Skazki ful’be [Fula fairy tales]. Vinogradov, V. (Ed.). Moscow, Nauka, 1984. P. 8-38, 268-281.
  • Koval', A. & Njalibuli, B. Rezul’tativnoe značenie i glagol’naja sistema fula [Effective value and the verb system in the Fula language]. Nedjalkov, V. (Ed.). Leningrad, Nauka, 1983. P. 232-241.
  • Teksty fula [Fula texts]. V.A. Vinogradov, V. (Ed.). Moscow, Nauka, 1981. P. 132-153.
  • O značenii morfologičeskogo pokazatelja klassa v fula [On the value of the morphological class indicator in the Fula language]. Oxotina, N. (Ed.). Moscow, Nauka, 1979. P. 5-100.
  • Kommunikativnaja rol’ jazyka fula v stranax Zapadnoj Afriki [Communicative role of the language in West African countries]. Oxotina, N. (Ed.). Moscow, Nauka, 1975. P. 206-236.
  • Morfonologija pričastnyx form v jazyke fula (dialekt futa-džallon) [Participle morphology in the Fula language (Fouta Djallon dialect)]. Moscow, 1972. P. 142-157.
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