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The thesis presents the complex analysis of German and Ukrainian professional languages of law on lexical, morphological and syntax levels. The identification of mutual and distinctive features of the languages compared is the result of the research.

For the first time there was made a lexical and terminological structuring of German and Ukrainian professional languages of law terminology systems and complex research of legal terms of criminal and family law in a comparable aspect was conducted.

The paper highlights the analysis and structured professional and general vocabulary The vocabulary of legal texts contains general lexis and terms which according to the sphere of its functioning divide into general legal terms, and technical ones (42%-52%).
General lexis is divided into such thematic groups: family relations nominations, nominations of things, connected with person’s life, names of person’s parts of the body, nominations of place, time, etc. Narrow sphere terms make relatively small group (11,5%-19%).

Word building analysis defined the most productive word-formative elements. It is found that word basemaking in German and Ukrainian professional languages of law is realised by means of substantive, adjective and verbal structure types. The research representation of parts of speech proves the dominance of nominative style in German and Ukrainian texts of law.

The analysis of syntactical peculiarities stated the dominance of complex sentences upon simple ones. The mostly used types of subordinative sentences are the following: subordinative sentences of condition and subordinative attributive sentences.

Key words: professional language, term, law, criminal law, family law, communication, structure, semantics.