On the history of Buryat word formation: plant names.

The most productive way of word formation in Buryat, as in other Mon- golic languages, is a derivation via suffixation. The present paper has a two-fold goal. The first aim is to find out which methods of word-formation are involved in form- ing the plant names in Buryat. And second, the paper analyzes the special semantic group of the plant names which went through metaphorical or metonymical changes.