MULTICOMPONENT ENGLISH-LANGUAGE SOCIO-POLITICAL TERMS: STRUCTURAL FEATURES AND BASIC SYNTACTIC MODELS (BASED ON THE ENGLISH-RUSSIAN DICTIONARY OF TERMS TO THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS)

Abstract

The article presents results of an analysis of structural features and basic syntactic models of multicomponent English-language terms based on the English-Russian dictionary of terms to the European Convention on Human Rights. Significant structural features of the multicomponent terms under study are identified, described and analyzed: the author of the article discovers the prevalence of simple (two- and three-component), as well as a significant number of complex (four-, five-, six- and seven-component) terms is found. The author reveals the predominance of substantive terms in comparison with verbal, adjectival and adverbial terms, as well as the majority of prepositive and postpositive terms. The study confirms productivity of syntactic models common in modern English, used for the formation of simple multicomponent terms (two- and three-component terms), as well as in four-component and five-component groups of complex multicomponent terms.