REPRESENTATION OF THE CATEGORY OF CAUSATIVITY AS A REFLECTION OF THE BURYAT MENTALITY

Abstract

The work presents an analysis of means representing the category of causativity from the point of view of reflecting the mentality. The analysis showed that the Buryat language is characterized by a set of grammatical means that allow expressing various meanings and shades of interaction between people, events, objects and phenomena. The research material demonstrates that native speakers tend to denote causative relations in the most compact and capacious way. It is indicated that the grammatical representation in the language indicates the system-forming nature of the category. The idea is put forward that the restraint, laconicity of the Buryats is demonstrated by the compactness of the addition of affixes. It is also noted that in the minds of native speakers of the Buryat language, absolutely any action can be performed under compulsion or request. A feature of the language is the presence of permissive constructions. The article also shows that polypredicative constructions are used to express initiating causation and denote only interpersonal interactions, and can also indicate a rationalistic mentality.