The statistical methods of the study of the author's speech of the American and British fictional prose in the XIX-XXth centuries

The article deals with the examination of the speech functioning of the passive in the temporary historical perspective. There are revealed and explained the similarities and differences of the reasons, causing the sublanguage distribution of the passive constructions in the wide sublanguage of the fictional prose, one of the most significant spheres of the communication. In the process of the analysis of the sublanguage distribution of the passive constructions there is established the interdependence of the grammatical (syntactical) structure of the text and its content nature.