Functional analysis of the chronological section of vocabulary (the first quarter of the 21st century)

this article describes in detail the analysis of an experiment on the systematic stratification of the chronological section of the vocabulary of Russian narrative prose of the first quarter of the 21st century. The purpose of the experiment is to determine which words form the core of the vocabulary and which belong to the periphery. The analysis of the core vocabulary through chronological sections allows us to trace the dynamics of the development of the lexical system of the language. Particular attention should be paid to quantitative and qualitative changes in the core of vocabulary, since these processes are of paramount importance for understanding systemic transformations. The key research method is parametric vocabulary analysis (PVA), which includes four main parameters: functional, syntagmatic, derivational and paradigmatic. Only a comprehensive account of all four parameters allows us to get a complete picture of the position of a word in the hierarchy of the lexical and semantic system and objectively assess the significance of each lexical unit. The article contains a consistent description of all stages of the work - from the preparation of the dictionary and its electronic concordance to highlighting the minimally labeled vocabulary, determining the weight of each word according to the PVA parameters and analyzing the results obtained. The article presents original methodological approaches and solutions that can be used in further research of historical lexicology and the study of the lexical and semantic system of the modern Russian language. The conducted research demonstrates the effectiveness of an integrated approach to the analysis of the lexical system of the language and opens up new perspectives for studying the dynamics of the development of the modern Russian language. The results obtained can be used as a methodological basis for subsequent linguistic research.

historical lexicology, parametric analysis of vocabulary, core, periphery, lemma, word form