Аннотация:The paper tackles the problem of linguistic synaesthesia, or synaesthetic transfers between different zones of sensoryexperience. It employs corpus linguistics methods to analyze the ability of sensory adjectives to produce meanings in othersensory modalities. This research targets the Russian and Italian languages testing the models suggested previously andcomparing the results for each language. More precise corpus linguistics methods and factor analysis are employed. Inaddition, this article suggests a new synaesthetic transfer classification.