The lexis of Leo Tolstoy’s novella “Boyhood” in the context of the evolution of the Russian literary language
... instances of occasional neology, as well as semantic shifts within the polysemous structures of established lexemes and the acquisition of new connotative meanings. Corpus analysis, based on concordance data and statistical summaries provided by the Russian National Corpus, is used to distinguish Tolstoy’s own lexical innovations from lexemes that became firmly established in the Russian literary language owing to “Boyhood” and Tolstoy’s oeuvre more broadly. The analysis also considers lexical units that ...
