Neologisms in the Sphere of Contract law: Linguo-Legal Aspects

The article covers the study of semantic, structural and functional features of neol-ogism terms used in contract law to denote various types of payments and lease of vehicles. The rapid development of technology and engineering has led to the emergence of new forms of implementation of contractual legal relations. Moreo-ver, the nomination of these forms is carried out through borrowed terms. The arti-cle attempts to conduct a linguistic and legal analysis of some English-language terms widely used in everyday life of citizens: cash back, annuity payment, car sharing, kick sharing, bike sharing, scooter sharing, ride sharing. The methodolog-ical basis of the study is represented by general scientific methods and techniques (comparison, description, classification, etc.), as well as methods of structural and semantic analysis (component and distribution analysis), contextual analysis, defi-nitional analysis. The sources of language material are the texts of regulatory legal acts, documents of judicial practice, scientific works in the field of linguistics and jurisprudence, publications in the media, reference literature. Examples of linguistic implementation of neologism terms in official business and scientific style texts are presented. It is revealed that the considered neologisms have significant derivation-al potential - compound terminological units are formed on their basis. The possi-bilities of replacing short foreign-language terms with constructions of a complex analytical structure are analyzed and the expediency of such transformations is as-sessed. Conclusions are made about the need to adopt measures at the state level aiming at regulating the process of using foreign-language vocabulary, as well as that further development of the language of civil law in the sphere of contractual relations should be linked with the codification in legislation of neologism terms denominating various types of payments and rent.