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Statistical Parameters of the Novel Perexresni steˇzky (The Cross-Paths) by Ivan Franko Solomija Buk and Andrij Rovenchak∗ Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine Abstract In the paper, a complex statistical characteristics of a Ukrainian novel is given for the first time. The distribution of word-forms with respect to their size is studied. The linguistic laws by Zipf–Mandelbrot and Altmann–Menzerath are analyzed. 1 Introduction Year 2006 is the 150th anniversary of Ivan Franko (1856–1916), the promi- nent Ukrainian writer, poet, publicist, philosopher, sociologist, economist, translator-polyglot and the public figure. His incomplete collected works were published in 50 volumes (Franko, 1976–86). With this name the notion of national identity in the Western Ukraine is connected. Franko’s works have intensive plot and interesting topic. In this paper, we make an analy- sis of the novel (The Cross-Paths, referred also as The Crossroads in Encyclopædia Britannica). The events of the novel unfold at the turn of the 20th century. This is a story of young lawyer Eugenij Rafalovyˇc coming to the provincial town in Halytchyna (Galicia) to continue his practice. He meets there his former teacher, Stalski, telling to Eugenij about his matrimonian life, telling, in particular, that he does not talk at all to his wife for ten (!) years as a pun- ishment. The point is that Stalski appears to be married to Regina, Eugenij’s ∗Corresponding author’s e-mail: andrij@ktf.franko.lviv.ua 1 Jugendliebe. . . This novel is about lawlessness and justice, meanness and no- bleness, consciousness and subconsciousness. Social motives, psychologism, love and tragedy are tangled h