The Language of Dmitriy Venevitinov’s Poetry: A Linguographic Approach

The dictionary complex of Venevitinov's poetry language created at Kazan Federal University provides valuable materials for studying the features of his language and it is currently being prepared for publication. The dictionary complex includes quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the poet's lexicon. This article presented the results of the study of Dmitriy Venevitinov's poetic language obtained in the process of creating this dictionary complex. The article considered individual-author words, obsolete words, and other units referring to the vocabulary of limited use. The dictionary also provided a wide range of opportunities for a multilateral description of the texts. With the help of the frequency dictionary and concordance, the authors determined the main motives of Venevitinov's poetry (according to Gasparov's approach) and thereby proved the poet's involvement in romantic individualism. The results of the study further showed the significant information potential of language reference books as well as prospects and effectiveness of their use for the description of text materials.