Narrow contextual distribution of the lexemes «man» and «women» analyzed in the framework of distributional semantics

This article analyzes the possibilities of studies of the narrow contextual distribution of gender-marked lexemes ««Man» and ««Woman» in the framework of distributional semantics. The article describes the main propositions of the theory of distributional semantics and the results of the analysis of narrow contextual distribution of the lexemes mentioned above. The analysis of the contextual distribution is carried out using the methods of automatic computer texts analysis as well as statistical and comparative analysis of the examples taken from the British National Corpus of English. The application of these techniques revealed the significant gender asymmetry in the semantics of the contextual distribution of the lexemes «Man» and «Woman».