Кількісна оцінка пуризму Бориса Грінченка

This article examines the influence of Borys Hrinchenko’s puristic principles, which he articulated on the pages of the Lviv semimonthly Zoria during the years 1891–93, on his poetic lexicon. Our research shows that the number of words per textual unit in Hrinchenko’s poetry is 35.7 per cent less than in Ivan Franko’s poetry of the same period (1,939 words vs. 2,631 various words per 8,000 words of text). The number of identical Russian and Ukrainian words was 319 (12.1 per cent) in Franko’s poems and 278 (14.3 per cent) in Hrinchenko’s (i.e., 36.1 words in Franko vs. 30.8 in Hrinchenko per 1,000 words of text). The number of identical Polish and Ukrainian words was 245 (9.3 per cent) in Franko and 188 (9.7 percent) in Hrinchenko (i.e., 34.2 in Franko and 37.3 in Hrinchenko per 1,000 words of text).