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In this work, we applied sociocultural and statistical approaches to perform analysis of the words "dream", "disappointment" and their cognates in Russian, English and German. The electronic library Google Books and defining dictionaries were used as study material. First, we studied and compared dictionary meanings of words “dream” and “disappointment” and then analysed and interpreted frequency of use of these words and their cognates in different years. As for the English language, frequency of the word “dream”...

This article is devoted to the empirical confirmation or refutation of an intuitively obvious assumption that more frequent words retain the inflectional type well, while less frequent words tend to change under the influence of analogy. This situation was confirmed in similar works during the study of verb unification process with an irregular declension in English and German: it was proved that the more frequent an irregular verb is, the more time it takes for it to transform into a regular one. However, the Rus...