Количественные и статистические характеристики лексического окружения существительных брань и рать в старославянских и восточнославянских источниках XI–XV вв.: Опыт извлечения и анализа малых корпусных данных
Quantitative and Statistical Characteristics of the Lexical Environment of the Nouns bran’ ‘battle’ and rat’ ‘war, army’ in Old Church Slavonic and East Slavonic Sources from 11th–15th C.: Experience in Еxtracting and Analyzing Small Corpus Data

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the lexical distribution of the nouns брань ‘battle’ and рать ‘war, army’ in sixteen Slavic written monuments of the 11th–15th centuries with varied textual characteristics. Methods are used for comparing the frequency of the analyzed nouns, extracting bigrams and measuring the closeness between these nouns and their collocates, and calculating the correlation between lists of collocates of one noun in different subcorpora and between lists of collocates of different nouns in one subcorpus. The author posits a relationship between the basic characteristics of the lexical environment and the semantics of the words брань ‘battle’ and рать ‘war, army’. The author also demonstrates a relationship between the distribution of the analyzed words and the textual characteristics of the texts.

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