The hunter, the crocodile, and the hare: Five days of Antonina Ivanovna Koval’s field work in 1993

This paper is a commented publication of several sessions of field work conducted by the leading African linguist Antonina Ivanovna Koval back in 1993. This work was associated with preparing polylingual tales in different dialects and varieties of Pulaar-Fulfulde. In the course of that work Antonina I. Koval obtained two versions of the tale in the Dalaba variety of the Fuuta-Jaloo dialect, along with a large amount of concomitant linguistic, sociolinguistic and other information. The character of that work, refl ected in the document published herein, is of substantial methodological interest.