Bulletin of BSU. Language. Literature. Culture
Bibliographic description:
MEANS OF EXPRESSING INTENSITY IN THE BURYAT LANGUAGE // Bulletin of BSU. Language. Literature. Culture. - 2020. №4. . - С. 92-97.
Title:
MEANS OF EXPRESSING INTENSITY IN THE BURYAT LANGUAGE
Financing:
Статья подготовлена в рамках государственного задания XII.193.1.5. Ментальность монгольских народов в зеркале языка, номер госрегистрации № АААА-А17-117021310266-8 (“Mentality of the Mongolian peoples in the mirror of language”).
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The article provides a brief analysis of lexical means of expressing intensity in the Buryat language. Сategory of intensityis widely discussed in Russian lexicology. As in Russian semantic category of intensity in Buryat is expressedwith the help oflanguage el- ements having intensity function — grammatical forms, syntactic constructions and lex- emes.The author’s attention is paid to specifics of Buryat adverbs-intensifiers, which are considered as expressive language means. It is concluded that the leading role in system of expressing intensity belongs to lexical level. Except adverbs the meaning of intensity in Buryat can express verbs, adjectives, and some particles.For interpreting linguistic material contextual and definitional analyses were used and examples were taken from the Buryat- Russian parallel corpus and some dictionaries.
Keywords:
functional grammar; lexicology; semantics; intensity category; intensive; inten- sifier; adverb; the Buryat language
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