attributivity; subjectivity; genre

The study focuses on two syntactic indices (attributivity, subjectivity) in various text types and genres in the contemporary written Czech. Index of attributivity is defined as the ratio of the frequency of attributes to the sum of frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and attributes. Index of subjectivity is defined as the ratio of the frequency of subjects to the sum of frequencies of predicates and subjects. The goal is (a) to find out the utility of the proposed indices in stylometry and (b) to enrich stylistics with new quantitative findings. The research is based on the corpus SYN2020 belonging to the Czech National Corpus. The results show that both indices can distinguish different styles and genres. In general, non-fiction texts tend to have higher values of both indices compared to fiction literature