ON THE FEATURES OF CAUSATION IN THE BURYAT LANGUAGE

Abstract

The paper analyzes the process of causation in the Buryat language, i.e. the process of adding a new sub-event to the event structure. The actant structure of causative constructions formed from the initial transitive and intransitive constructions is considered. The analysis showed that in the Buryat language, changes in the argumentative structure during causation are expected to correspond to the theories of actant structures, so the subject of the original construction is shifted to the nearest free position on the hierarchy of syntactic relations. The research material confirms that the causable object becomes a direct complement when there is causation of single intransitive verbs, and when there is causation of transitive verbs, it becomes an indirect complement in the dative and instrumentalis. The research suggests that the causable objects expressed by instrumentalis in the Buryat language act not just as tools for achieving goals, but also as actants denoting assistants, which suggests that the use of instrumentalis in causative construction is one of the means of expressing assistivity as a particular meaning of causativity. In the Buryat language, as shown in the article, the choice of a particular case can be determined by the meaning of causation-factitivity is reflected in constructions with instrumentalis, and the dative expresses permissivity.