KEYWORDS OF XIX CENTURY PROSE (AS VIEWED FROM A CENTURY AFTER)

The article compares dictionary of prose of the mid-19th century (by Shaike vich A. Ya., Andryushchenko V. M., Rebetskaya N. A.) containing 15 million word usages, with the dictionary of O. N. Lyashevskaya and S. A. Sharov covering the period 1950–2007 and including 35 million word usages. All data in the latter dictionary are given as relative frequencies per million word usages (ipm — items per million). For each of the two corpora, lexical markers can be statistically identified using the formula: S = (f – m – 1) / √m, where f is the absolute frequency of a word, m is the mathematical expectation of this frequency within the framework of a given null hypothesis. When comparing the two corpora, 1267 markers of the 19th century (with S > 8) and 714 mar kers of the 20th century (with S > 4) were found. The most interesting semantic groups of markers of the 19th century are considered in the paper.