Daniil A. Sokolov

functional styles of English are usually described with selected examples rather than measurements. In the study, scientific, official, newspaper, publicistic, belles-lettres and colloquial texts from the Brown Corpus and the NPS Chat Corpus (about 450 thousand words) were compared on eight quantitative features. Scientific and official texts had the longest sentences and the highest frequencies of nominalizations and passive constructions, while colloquial texts contained 13 times more first- and second-person pronouns than scientific prose.