Statistical Research of the Colour Component ЧОРНИЙ (BLACK) in Roman Ivanychuk’s Text Corpus

Abstract

The article considers the statistical analysis of word combinations with colour component ЧОРНИЙ (BLACK) in Roman Ivanychuk’s fiction. The research is based on Roman Ivanychuk’s and Ukrainian prose fiction text corpora to compare statistical parameters and qualitative indicators and to detect the specific characteristics of the author’s idiolect. Colour nominations are important elements for modeling the world by a linguistic personality. The colour ЧОРНИЙ (BLACK) forms the core of colours in linguistic studies and is the most frequent colour nomination in Roman Ivanychuk’s text corpus. Corpus-based approach, absolute / relative frequency, statistical association measures MI-score and t-score are used to describe and analyze the author’s word combinations with colour nomination ЧОРНИЙ (BLACK) as a marker of his idiolect. Structural and semantic models of collocations and collocations with colour component ЧОРНИЙ (BLACK) are found out; thematic groups of typical collocates for colour ЧОРНИЙ (BLACK) as an attribute in the model Adj. + N. are described; high-frequency collocates of the node ЧОРНИЙ (BLACK) are presented; statistical association measure MI-score allowed to extract author-individual collocations in Roman Ivanychuk's text corpus.