Prepositions and Case Forms of the Russian Language as a Subject of Identification Linguistics

Abstract

The article features Russian vocabulary from the aspect of identification linguistics, i.e. identification function on the morphological level, e.g. in various parts of speech and word forms belonging to different grammatical categories. The analysis focuses on auxiliary parts of speech, namely prepositions, related case forms, and grammatical meanings. The research is based on Internet correspondence. The article is included in the paradigm of research aimed at identifying and describing quantitative patterns in the distribution of units, properties, and relationships in texts and patterns of the stability / variability coefficient of units, properties, and relationships. The authors assume that different units have a different coefficient: some tend to be stable while others change their coefficient depending on different characteristics of the text. The research employed the method of Pearson’s statistical criterion. The applied method determines the frequency of lexemes in texts belonging to different author profiles and reveals their identification potential.