Abstract
The report is devoted to the results of the study on the word-building capacities and lexical
potentials of verbs and nouns in the short stories by A.I. Solzhenitsyn; the author’s preferences on
the usage of stylistically marked words (as elevated, obsolete, colloquial, low, local) are presented.
Special attention is focused at the occasional word constriction patterns that resemble productive
colloquial speech patterns, but at the same time represent an individual style of the author
in the usage of nominal and verbal lexis, which helps to allot a Russian word that is a close
equivalent for the concept in mind.
Image-presenting means and devices typical of the idiostyle of the writer are singled out and
analysed.