STATISTICALLY STABLE VERBAL-NOMINAL COMBINATIONS WITH THE COMPONENT ЖИЗНЬ IN THE ANCIENT RUSSIAN CHRONICLES

Abstract

The article describes statistically stable verbal-nominal combinations with the component ‘жизнь’, functioning in the Old Russian language. The material for the study is an electronic collection of three ancient Russian Chronicles, published on the portal “Manuscript: Slavic Written Heritage” (URL: http://manuscripts.ru/). The study presents a statistical analysis of bigrams, which made it possible to identify statistically significant verbal-nominal combinations with the component ‘жизнь’ and qualify them as expressions that claim stable status. Analysis of the obtained statistical information makes it possible to identify connections between various linguistic elements, determine patterns in the development of certain phenomena, describe the functioning of complex processes in language and clarify the mechanisms of interaction of units in it. This study is carried out using special statistical indicators that allow us to determine the degree of stability of expressions, thereby avoiding subjectivity in assessing a particular construction from the point of view of ideomaticity. To identify collocations in the corpus of the oldest Russian Chronicles, the tools of the Manuscript IAS are used, in particular the n-gram module, which allows you to obtain text combinations with a different number of components. As a measure of association, the T-score measure is used, which allows us to determine how non-random the strength of connection between words in a phrase is. The selected bigrams and their statistical data demonstrate the presence in the Old Russian period of combinations that cannot be called phraseological units in the modern sense, but it is necessary to note their statistical stability in the text, which allows them to be qualified as stable combinations / collocations / statistically stable expressions.