Macromodels of Buryat emotive elementary sentences

Abstract

The relevance of the work is determined by the main trend of modern linguistic research – anthropocentric, in the center of which is a person with his thoughts, feelings, and experiences.  In the article, for the first time in Mongolian studies, models of emotional reaction, emotional  state and causation of emotions are presented as macromodels with a set of different design  options depending on lexical and semantic content and communicative attitudes. The structural diversity of the constructions is explained by the speaker’s communicative intention to focus attention either on the Experiencer, or on the emotion itself, or on the Stimulus. In the structure of constructions, the position of the subject is communicatively highlighted. By reducing the Stimulus, attention is also focused on the Experiencer or on the Emotion itself. When assigning variants of constructions to a particular model, semantics were taken into account first of all:  the relationship between subject and predicate, subject and object, as well as the “degree  of activity” of the subject. As a result of the study, each macromodel is provided with a list of structural schemes of variants of its structures. From the point of view of structural diversity, a macromodel of emotional reaction is distinguished, including seven types of constructions. In the macromodel of causation of emotions the position of the subject is occupied by the Stimulus. The main research method is the modeling method, and elements of transformational,  distributive, and component analyses were used as additional techniques. The research material is modern dictionaries, texts by Buryat authors, including those posted in the electronic Buryat corpus, as well as the results of a survey of native speakers. When collecting the material,  traditional methods of primary linguistic observation, description, and comparison were used.