The lexical means of objectification of emptiness in Russian and Buryat languages

The article reviews the features of representation of emptiness on the material of Russian and Buryat languages. The author analyzes lexical means of objectification of emptiness, reveals similarities and differences between the national concepts of emptiness. Analysis of dictionary definitions using the method of continuous sampling shows that semantic content of пустой lexeme in Russian and Buryat хоо^н adjective. Comparative analysis of equivalent adjectives expressing the idea of absence was also made on the material of data from the National corpus of Russian language and Buryat language. The article reveals cognitive layers of the concept of "emptiness" in Russian and Buryat national worldview; focuses on the study of this concept as a fragment of the spatial pattern of the world. Such cognitive layers as "repository", "solitude", "quality of personality," "value characteristics" are revealed.