Sources of Two-word Terms in Legal Acts of a Constitutional Nature in English and Lithuanian

Abstract

The research focuses on the contrastive analysis of the sources of the formation of two-word terms in legal acts of a constitutional nature in English and Lithuanian. Twoword terms constitute the largest part of multi-word terms in the administrative language in English and Lithuanian. The research on the sources used to form multi-word terms and their typology helps to evaluate the existing trends in term-formation and maintain systematicity in the process of the formation of new multi-word terms.