Linguistic corpuses as a digital means of comparative analyses of size adjectives (on the basis of English and Tatar)

摘要

The article is devoted to demonstrate how digital means are used in linguistic comparative analyses. The research is proved to be actual because size adjectives help to understand naive language pictures of the world. The purpose of the article is to reveal differences in functioning size adjectives in English and Tatar. The methods of digital quantative analysis and a descriptive method were used. The sources for the collection and systematization of linguistic material were British National Corpus (https://www.english-corpora.org/bnc/) and Tatar National Corpus (http://web-corpora.net/TatarCorpus/search/). The research is carried out in line with those linguistic works where the idea of using statistic data is developed. The most frequent size adjective in Tatar is the adjective zur, the most frequent size adjective in English is the adjective little. The size adjectives thick / yuan have the same frequency in both languages. In Tatar the size adjectives ozyn and kechkene have the same frequency. In English size adjectives long-high-wide are distributed with different frequencies. When analyzing quantitative data using digital means of linguistic corpuses, it is necessary: first, to take into account the combining potential; secondly, to take into account synonyms.