Semantic categories of phraseological units in the Yakut and Buryat languages

Abstract

This article presents a scholarly description of the relationships of synonymy, antonymy, homonymy, polysemy in phraseological units, and semantic categories of Yakut and Buryat phraseological parallels. The aim of the work is to identify semantic categories of Yakut and Buryat phraseological parallels. The object of the research is the Yakut phraseological units, which have parallels in the Buryat language. The material of the work is Yakut and Buryat phraseological parallels from the following lexicographical sources: Big explanatory dictionary of the Yakut language (in 15 volumes), Phraseological dictionary of the Yakut language, edited by N.S. Grigoriev, Yakut-Russian Phraseological Dictionary A.G. Nelunov (in 2 volumes), Buryat-Russian Phraseological Dictionary, edited by Ts.F. Tsydenzhapov, a collection of proverbs and sayings edited by N.V. Emelyanov, scholarly works of A.E. Kulakovsky, a collection of proverbs edited by G.V. Popov. The goal, objectives and specifics of the studied material set in the work determined the choice of the linguistic research methods: the main method is inductive; special methods are the method of complete sampling of components from lexicographical sources, the phraseological identifying method, comparative-contrasting method.