STRUCTURAL FEAUTURES OF ENGLISH LEGAL TERMS DESCRIBING TYPES OF CRIMES

Abstract

The article presents results of an analysis of structural features of English legal terms of a thematic group “Types of Crimes” from the point of morphology and syntax. Within the framework of the selected aspect of the study, the morphological and syntactic characteristics of English-language legal terms of the thematic group “Types of Crimes” are studied. In the context of morphological characteristics, the word-formation structure and word-formation models are investigated, as well as the belonging of English legal terms of the specified thematic group to the different parts of speech. The syntactic parameters of the studied set of terms include the identification of the main syntactic models of the formation of terminological combinations, as well as their quantitative component composition. The study confirmed the use of productive word-formation and syntactic methods and models both in the national English language and in the above-mentioned thematic group.