FREQUENCY COMPARISON OF SINGLECOMPONENT RUSSIAN LEGAL TERMS IN THE NATIONAL CORPUS OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND THE RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE CORPUS OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF UZBEKISTAN

Abstract

The article provides a comparative overview of the frequency indicators of Russian legal terms in the National Corpus of the Russian Language and in the Russian-language corpus of the Constitutions of Uzbekistan for the period 1927–2023. The methodological framework of the study includes the automated compilation of a list of legal terms, frequency analysis using the IPM metric in the National Corpus, and morphological processing of the constitutional corpus with the MyStem tool. The assembled corpus covers five editions of the Constitution of Uzbekistan, which enables diachronic analysis of terminological changes. The results demonstrate that legal terms with high frequency in the National Corpus maintain remain prominent in constitutional discourse, particularly in modern editions of the Basic Law. It is established that terms related to state structure, the judicial system, and the regulation of individual rights exhibit stable and increasing frequency. At the same time, differences between general-language and legally specialized usage are revealed, largely determined by genre and normative features of the texts. The diachronic analysis identifies the intensification of rightsrelated and state-structural terminology in the post-Soviet period. The data obtained in this study may be used for further research in legal linguistics, terminography, and the analysis of normative texts.