Style, topic and genre

A style can be selected on the search text by the attribute DOC.STYLE. The abbreviations for style are the following:

 

FIC — fiction

NOF —  non-fiction

POE — poetry

ACA — academic

EGO — ego text

JOU — journalism

OFF — official

SPU — spoken public

SPR — spoken private

ICM — Internet-communication

REL — religion

FOL — folklore

 

About 50% of the texts belong to the domain of fiction.

Among non-fiction a large subcorpus of journalism is to be pointed out that includes collections of newspapers of 1888-1893 (Dilo, Ruslan, Narod, Chervona Ukrajina, Bukovyna, Narodna Chasopys’), 1905 (Khliborob), 1913-1918 (Dilo, Ruslan, Djilo i Nove Slovo, Vil’na Ukrajina, Vistnyk Sojuza vyzvolennja Ukrajiny, Krakivs’ki visty, L’vivs’ki visti, Vistnyk polityky, literatury i zhyttja), 1919-1943 (Strilec’, Shljakh do voli, Visti VUCVK, Dilo, Meta, Novyj chas, Svoboda, Ukrajins’kyj Beskyd, Vil’na Ukrajina, Chervona Ukrajina, Krakivs’ki visty, Chervonyj Peremyshl’, L’vivs’ki visti, Ukrajins’ki shchodenni visty, Ukrajinskyj Visnyk, Holos Pidkarpattja), contemporary newspapers from different languages (Vysokyj zamok, Slovo, Visnyk SNAU, Kryms’ka svitlycja, Nash den’, Chornomorec’, Nyva, Shalom Alejkhem, Vinnychyna, Svoboda, Uchytel’, Visnyk odes’koji advokatury, Visti Donbasu, Vpered, Krajeznavstvo Zaporozhzhja, Licejist, Nash hazeta Novodnistrovs’k, Smilyanochka, Spivdruzhnist’, 21-j kanal, 7 dniv, Volyns’ki novyny, Vorskla et al.) as well as texts from news sites in the web (as such editions sometimes use machine translation for translating news, only sites that have only Ukrainian version were used as sources).

 

Another large subcorpus consists of academic and educational texts: monographs, dissertations, scholarly papers, textbooks.There exists a separate subcorpus of religious texts, including among others two Ukrainian translations of the Bible. The subcorpus of ego texts also features memoires, letters and diaries, including a considerable corpus of Facebook posts representing blogs of people from all the Ukrainian regions and from the diaspora.  The subcorpora of spoken genres, viz. speeches and interviews, are rather small.

 

Several genres also are tagged in the corpus (DOC.GENRE). The abbreviations for genre are the following:

 

 

 

AUT — autobiography

BLO — blog

CHI — children

DIA — diary

DIC — dictionary

DIS — dissertation

DRA — drama

EDU — education

HUM — humor

INT — interview

CON — conversation

MON — monologue

LET — letter

MEM — memoirs

POE — poetry

POP — popular

REV — review

 

GRAC includes also some dictionaries featuring phrasal examples and idioms, among others Dictionary of Ukrainian by B. Hrinchenko and Russian-Ukrainian Dictionary of Idioms by I. Vyrhan and M. Pylyns’ka. Using the corpus instruments the dictionaries can be searched not only by lexemes but also by lexico-grammatical patterns used in the examples and cited idioms.

 

Academic texts have thematic markup. At the search page the following attributes can be customized:

 

branch (DOC.BRANCH)

SOC — social sciences

TEC — technical texts

NAT — natural sciences

 

topic (DOC.THEMA)

 

ART — art

BIO — biology

CHE — chemistry

ECN — economics

ETH — ethnography

FMA — physics and mathematics

GEL — geology

GEO — geography

HIS — history

IT — information technologies

JUR — law

MED — medicine

MIL — military

PED — pedagogy

PHL — literature and linguistics

PHS — philosophy

POL — political science

PSY — psychology

REZ — religious studies