SEMANTIC TYPES OF CAUSATION IN THE BURYAT LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article considers constructions that reflect such semantic types of causation in the Buryat language as contact and distant causation. Contact and distant causation is one of the main oppositions in causative construction, therefore, their study on the material of different languages is certainly an urgent problem in linguistics. The novelty of the research is that this problem has not been studied in Buryat linguistics. The main purpose of the work is to consider causative constructions of the Buryat language from the point of view of their expression of semantics of contact and distant causation. The purpose of the research is to consider their functional-semantic and grammatical features. The paper shows that contact causation in the Buryat language is expressed by lexical and morphological means with the suffixes -ga, -ga, – ha, -haa, -aa. To express distant causation, the Buryat language uses syntactic and morphological causatives. The research material also shows that these semantic types of causation are related to the meaning of the causative verb. Contact causation is most often assigned to verbs of physical and emotional influence, and distant causation – to verbs of volitional influence. In the Buryat language, one of the regular means of expressing distant causation in monopredicative constructions is the suffixes of morphological causatives -uul and -lga, as well as double causation.