The objectives of this study include the selection of prototypical causative constructions of the Buryat language and the means of their representation, the study of the features of the structure and ways of expressing non-prototypical constructions.  The definition of prototypical and non-prototypical causative constructions in the Buryat language, of course, should give a new level of study of syntactic constructions.  The output of research on the linguocognitive level is necessary for a comprehensive study of the category of causal  activity.