Yümjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan () (born 1956 in Bayanmönkh, Khentii) is a Professor of

Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

at the National University of Mongolia. Mönkh-Amgalan earned his M.A. (1979), PhD (1993), and Doctor of Science (1997) in linguistics from the National University of Mongolia. His research focuses on modern Mongolian modality,

pragmatics In linguistics and the philosophy of language, pragmatics is the study of how Context (linguistics), context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship ...

semantics Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...

and

syntax In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...

. He is most noted for his pioneering work on modern Mongolian modality as well as his work on comparative Mongolian

dialectology Dialectology (from Ancient Greek, Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , ''-logy, -logia'') is the scientific study of dialects: subsets of languages. Though in the 19th century a branch of historical linguistics, dialectology is often now c ...

. Mönkh-Amgalan has taught

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

at the National University of Mongolia since 1979. He has taught Mongolian at

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from 2001 onwards. From 2005 to 2009 he was chair of the Sh. Luvsanvandan Department of Mongolian Linguistics, School of Mongolian Language and Culture, National University of Mongolia.Mönkh-Amgalan's webpage at the Mongolian State University

Notable publications

*Yumjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan (with Sürengiin Möömöö) (1984) ''Orchin üyeiin mongol khel ayalguu'' ontemporary Mongolian languages and dialects Ulaanbaatar: Shinjlekh ukhaany akademiin khevlekh üildver cademy of Sciences Press 354 pp. *(1998) ''Orchin tsagiin mongol khelnii baimjiin ai'' he category of modality in Contemporary Mongolian 2nd edition, Ulaanbaatar: MONTSAME Agentlagiin khevlekh üildver ONTSAME Printing House . 370 pp.

References

1956 births Living people Mongolists Dialectologists Academic staff of the National University of Mongolia {{Mongolia-academic-bio-stub