Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: The article presents the results of research carried out on the basis of the text corpus, which belongs to the legal type of discourse.The object of the study is one of the most frequent phenomena occurred in legal texts -two-component attributive constructions.There is an opinion among linguists that it is their prevalence that contributes to the formation of the main stylistic properties of the genre of legal documentation: conciseness and standardization of means of expression.The goal of the article is to consider the set of statistical, lexical and grammatical features of two-component attributive constructions functioning in the text corpus of legal discourse.The research material was taken from the judicial documents of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in the collection "Judgements of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labor Organization".The text corpus was limited to 50 thousand tokens.As a result of the study, it was determined that the discourse of legal documents is characterized by four types of twocomponent attributive constructions: qualifying, possessive with compound words as attributes, and constructions with abbreviations of the initial type as attributes -acronyms.Statistical analysis when calculating the frequency of use of attributes and kernels made it possible to identify typical and most frequent representatives in texts.The composition of lexical-semantic groups, which include attributes and kernels of two-component attributive constructions, is determined by the subject matter of the issues considered in judicial documents.The results of quantitative, lexical and grammatical analyzes have led to the conclusion that the only type of such kind of constructions in which one can observe a direct connection between the lexical-semantic groups of attributes and key words and their morphemic-derivational characteristics are the ones (constructions) with nouns in the common case.They include the largest lexical-semantic groups (documents, statutes, procedures; time span; names of organizations, departments, etc.) and the words that have the most commonly used morphological form -without affixes or with the most frequent suffixes: -tion, -ity.
Authors: T.I. Borisenko, M.V. Tsinova, E.B. Grodska
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4285166264