YAKUT FIGURATIVE VERBS DESCRIBING A PERSON’S FACE COMPARED TO MONGOLIAN PARALLELS

Abstract

The article examines the Yakut figurative verbs describing a person’s face, compared to their parallels from modern Mongolian languages. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that it reveals for the first time the general and distinctive features of the semantics of Yakut figurative verbs in comparison to their parallels from the Mongolian, Buryat and Kalmyk languages. As a result, the authors identify and characterize the convergent and divergent development of the semantics of the studied languages. There is a dominance of concretization among the Yakut figurative verbs. The concretization of semantics in the Yakut language is mainly manifested in the expression of person’s external signs. Among the studied linguistic layer there is a semantic category as polysemy.