Structural-semantic features of high frequency terms in the discourse of team sports

The material of the article reveals linguistic processes occurring in terminology development and structural and semantic properties of the English terminology in the discourse of team sports. Using the example of the functioning of the studied lexemes, the process of terminology formation within the terminological nest is considered where the valence of the base terms is taken as the basis. Thematic series are regularized and their synonymous unity is considered by comparing contextual uses of term combinations in speech. The relevance of this work is due to the fact that large number of new terms have constanly appeared in connection with which there is a need to translate new terms into various languages and regularize them. It consists not only in the systematization of concepts but also in the semantic structural and functional analysis of the terminology system. The analysis of the functioning of the noun ball confirms the idea that the development of the terminology system under study takes place not due to the designation of an increasing number of denotats but due to their qualitative specification with the active participation of the communicating subject in the nomination process. The regularizing of the functional-semantic category of quality predetermines the presence in the terminological system of the verb and adjectival term elements which are the exponents of the expressiveness and attributiveness.