Abstract
The article is devoted to the quantitative analysis of the literary world fictional description in the works, written by female and male authors. The study focuses on the comparison of adnominal (attributive) valency which is defined as the implementation of noun potential collocability with the syntactic position
 of adnominal. The valency is measured by the number of adnominals, modifying the given noun.
 The data-base of the study includes samples from 18 novels and stories, belonging to detective-story genre and written by female and male authors. The comparison of the adnominal features of two genders is carried out by counting
 the frequencies of different types of adnominal valencies and analyzing their distribution in the text.
 The research demonstrated that Lorentzian and power functions are a very good fit for the adnominal valencies distribution in all the texts. It has been found that female authors do not differ from male writers either in the number of adnominal
 valencies or their distribution which demonstrates some hidden regularity.
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