Correlation of formal features of English verbs in the language of medicine and in the national language: the degree of similarity
The article establishes the relationships of formal features of English verbs in the language for special purposes of medicine, the resulting scheme of relationship is compared with the corresponding interrelations of the characteristics of verbs in the national English language. The material for the analysis of verbs in the sublanguage of medicine is 506 verbs selected from the Stedman's Medical Dictionary as a result of a continuous selection. The feature scheme includes phonetic (type of stress, syllable length), morphemic and derivational characteristics of verbs. To carry out the analysis of the relations of features, statistical measures are used: Cole's coefficient, Sorensen's similarity coefficient. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the most number of correlations take place between derivational features and morpheme composition, the minimum number of dependencies is observed between derivational and pho-netic characteristics. The degree of similarity between the language of medicine and the national language turned out to be average in terms of the Sørensen coefficient, which indicates a significant degree of divergence between the two language systems.