FREQUENCY STATISTICALLY STABLE COMBINATIONS WITH THE ЖИЗНЬ COMPONENT IN THE ANCIENT RUSSIAN CHRONICLES

Abstract

The article presents a description of statistically stable combinations with the component ‘жизнь’, functioning in the oldest Russian Chronicles. The material for this study was electronic transcriptions of the Oldest Russian Chronicles, published on the portal “Manuscript: Slavic Written Heritage”. The key research method was the quantitative-statistical method, which allows a more detailed analysis of quantitative data obtained automatically, as well as statistically substantiating the combinatorial nature of the components with each other. The tool for the research was the n-gram module of the IAS “Manuscript”, which makes it possible to identify text combinations with different numbers of components and analyze the frequency of functioning of language units in texts. The purpose of the study was to identify the most frequent combinations with the component ‘жизнь’; in this regard, we used the T-score measure, which allows us to determine the most frequently occurring combinations, as well as to identify how non-random the strength of connection between words in a phrase is. The obtained statistical data and their comparison with the material recorded in lexicographic sources confirm the effectiveness of using association measures when working with Old Russian text. The study showed that in the Old Russian period, chronicle texts reflected combinations that cannot be called phraseological in the modern sense. However, it was revealed that such verbal complexes have statistical stability in the text.