Mukarrama Nabievna Qosimova (16 January 1933 – 2 October 2020) was a
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
i linguist and academic.
Biography
Born into a family of workers in
Konibodom tg, Конибодом
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, Qosimova graduated from the Department of History and Philology at
Tajikistan State University in 1955; the following year she joined the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 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: , , ), also called Tajiki Persian (Tajik: , , ) or Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligi ...
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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,
she received numerous awards during her career, among them the
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
The Medal "Veteran of Labour" (russian: медаль «Ветеран труда») 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 ...
and the
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Qosimova died in
Dushanbe
Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (ru ...
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
Tajik National University faculty
Members of the Tajik Academy of Sciences
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