Béla Kempf, PhD (2010), is an assistant professor at the Department of Altaic Studies, University of Szeged. His research areas include comparative Altaic studies and the history of the Mongolic languages. His work has primarily focused on issues in the historical morphology of Mongolic, as well as on contacts between Turkic and Mongolic languages. His current research topic is the evaluation of material from 18th–19th century Buryat glossaries and the more precise identification of phonological processes in the history of the Buryat language, along with the compilation of a dictionary of Early Buryat. In these fields, his most important publications include: Early Buryat Glossaries 1.1: Comparative Analysis of Regnier’s and Tatarinov’s Glossaries. International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 7 (1). 86–116; An etymological dictionary of the Buryat language. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 11(3). 209–226; Studies in Mongolic Historical Morphology: Verb Formation in the Secret History of the Mongols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013; Ethnonyms and etymology - The case of Oyrat and beyond. Ural-altaische Jahrbücher 25. 189–203; On Mongolic belge and mengge 'sign, mark'. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 65(3). 317–322; Mongolic čilagun : Turkic tāš. Turkic languages 14(1). 103–112; On the origin of two Mongolic gender suffixes. Ural-altaische Jahrbücher 20. 199–207.