Reception in Diachrony: the Genesis of English Legal Terms in Roman Law
- Authors: Muravev Y.А.1
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Affiliations:
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
- Issue: No 2(896) (2025)
- Pages: 37-43
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-2197/article/view/283958
- ID: 283958
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This research examines the etymology of a number of terms of the modern legal English language, which have a connection with the institutions of Roman law and ancient Roman religion. The purpose of the study is to establish the features of phonetic, word-formation, lexical, syntactic and semantic derivation of such terms, to identify their deep semantic structure in legal English and to clarify the dominants of their semantic fields. The analysis of the origin of such terms using the methods of contrastive linguistics allows a deeper understanding of the meaning of individual institutions and legal concepts that are still used in modern common law jurisdictions and the Romano-Germanic (continental) legal family.
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Yury Аleksandrovich Muravev
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
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Email: muravyev_yua@pfur.ru
PhD (Pedagogy), Associate Professor at the Department of theory and practice of foreign languages at the Institute of Foreign Languages,
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