On May 19, 2011, a prominent Russian philologist, linguist, Mongolian scholar, Doctor of Philology Maria Nikolaevna Orlovskaya turned 85 years old. M. N. Orlovskaya (nee - Zhdannikova) was born in 1926 in the village of Mantrovo, Smolensk region. During the Great Patriotic War, she worked at a defense enterprise in Moscow, and at the same time studied at the school of working youth. In 1950, she graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies and has been working at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences ever since. She taught Mongolian at the Diplomatic Academy (VDS, 1960-1974), as well as at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1973-1974). She received the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences for her thesis " The main nominal parts of speech in the Mongolian language (nouns and adjectives) "(1953). The degree of Doctor of Philology was awarded for the report "The language of monuments of Mongolian writing (XIII-XIV centuries and XVII centuries)" (1995). Maria Nikolaevna is a rare specialist in the field of text linguistics of monuments of the Mongolian script, as well as the largest researcher of the grammar of the Mongolian languages: Middle Mongolian (pre-classical), classical periods, as well as modern living (literary and non-written) Mongolian languages. She has published about 120 scientific papers, including 4 monographs. A number of articles have been published in English and Mongolian. M. N. Orlovskaya's first monograph "Nouns and Adjectives in the modern Mongolian language" (19611) was published on the basis of her PhD thesis. The linguistic base of the monograph is socio-political, artistic, linguistic (educational) literature in the Mongolian language. In the Introduction, the author considered controversial issues of nominal parts of speech in the Mongolian language, which have not yet been resolved. Nouns and adjectives in the modern Mongolian language were studied by her in the aspects of word formation ... Читать далее