SYNTAX OF THE BURYAT SPOKEN LANGUAGE: A PRELIMINARY SKETCH
Preliminary observations on the syntax of the Buryat spoken language presented in this article lead to the conclusion that its “deviations” are broadly similar to those of Russian colloquial speech. We observe ellipsis, constructions with unsubstituted valence, transposition or permutation of components in utterances, but at the same time there are some features specific to the Buryat language. In particular, it was found that contextual ellipsis is not fixed in the Buryat spoken language, consituational ellipsis is rare, and the inversion phenomenon is due to the desire of the speaker to put in the beginning a more informative and important part of the utterance, etc.