STATISTICAL PROFILE OF VALERIY SHEVCHUK’S IDIOSTYLE (MORPHOLOGICAL LEVEL)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the idiom of the Ukrainian writer of the sixties Valeriy Shevchuk. Theoretical approaches to the study of Shevchuk’s statistical profile are analyzed. The statistical analysis allows to reveal the essence of Shevchuk’s idiom by revealing the connection between the language form chosen by him and the deep conceptual aspects of his works. The study uses the tools of corpus linguistics, in particular, the General Regionally Annotated Corpus of the Ukrainian Language (GRAC-16), which provides ample opportunities for statistical analysis of vocabulary, structures, and semantic features of the text. The novels “On a Humble Field” and “The Eye of the Abyss” were chosen for the study, as well as the novel “Birds from an Invisible Island” and the collection of short stories “Valley of Springs”. In GRAC-16, the DKVS subcorpus (Valeriy Shevchuk Research Corpus) was created with a volume of 308,097 tokens. The statistical profile of V. Shevchuk’s idiom is characterized by parameters related to the morphological level of the writer’s individual speech. At the morphological level, the frequency of use of parts of speech for the selected works was traced. From the analysis of the frequency of use of different parts of speech in each novel and in the DКVS as a whole, it follows that the relative frequency of nouns in the DКVS ranges from 37.7–39.5, adjectives – 15.7–16.1, verbs – 19–20.1, adverbs – 9.6–11.7, prepositions – 9.6–9.9. In Valeriy Shevchuk’s texts, the frequency of nouns and adjectives prevails over verbs and adverbs. The data on the relative frequency of use of the studied parts of speech in the DKVS and DKRI (Roman Ivanychuk’s research corpus) correlate, as well as in the texts of Ivan Franko’s fiction. However, the data in the DKVS and DKRI are higher by ≈ 14% for nouns, by ≈ 8% for adjectives, by ≈ 1–3% for adverbs, by ≈ 1–2% for verbs than in the texts of Ivan Franko’s fiction (S. Buk) and Ukrainian fiction (V. Perebyinis).