STRUCTURAL FEAUTURES AND WORD-FORMATION MODELS OF ENGLISH LEGAL TERMS (BASED ON THE GLOSSARY TO THE TEXTBOOK BY A.K. ROMANOV “THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF ENGLAND”)

Abstract

The article presents the results of the analysis of legal terms in the glossary to the textbook by A.K. Romanov “The Legal System of England” from the point of view of the features of the structure and word-formation models these terms are formed by. A legal term is a word or phrase that denotes a state-legal concept. In the analyzed sample of English legal terms used by the UK legal system, the following features of the structure and mechanisms of replenishment of the British legal term system are identified: the presence of single-component and multi-component terms; the most productive word-formation methods (syntactic, morphological (in particular, suffixation) and semantic) and word-formation models (Adj+N, N+N, N+prep+N), which generally correspond to the most common trends in the English legal term system and modern English word formation.