Functional Patterns of Russian Participles: National Corpus of the Russian Language

The Internet is a source of quantitative information for quantitative morphological research. This article introduces the possibilities for using the National Corpus of the Russian Language to define the quantitative indicators of Russian participles. This approach made it possible to correlate the frequency and patterns of participles based on the search options provided by the Corpus. The research featured participial contexts extracted by continuous sampling from Russian fiction. The methodology included the quantitative-morphological analysis, comparative-comparative method, and descriptive-analytical method. Internet search proved to be a reliable source of linguistic material suitable for identifying the usage frequency of a certain participial form and its speech patterns. The method may be used to profile participial patterns in fiction texts.