Quantitative Characteristics of the M.Yatskiv’s Short Stories: corpus based studies

Abstract

The work aims to Figure out the idiolect of the Ukrainian author M. Yatskiv with the help of the statistical analysis and quantitative characteristics of his collection of the short stories. To achieve the goal, the following tasks has to be accomplished:–to create the corpus of 42 short stories by M. Yatskiv;–to determine the frequency of parts of speech;–to determine the most frequently used words;–to determine the quantative characteristics of M. Yatskiv’s short stories.To achieve the set goal and to solve the research problems, the statistical research methods has been used. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the above-mentioned collection of the short stories has not been previously studied from the statistical point of view.