This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 16 UDC 811.111’373.46:796 https://doi.org/10.29038/2617-6696.2022.5.16.31 STRUCTURAL AND DERIVATIONAL PARAMETERS OF THE SPORTS TERMINOLOGY Alla Pavliuk, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University Lutsk, Ukraine allapavliuk@vnu.edu.ua https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6037-4819 Oksana Rohach, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University Lutsk, Ukraine oksanarog@vnu.edu.ua https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5304-0837 Svitlana Sheludchenko, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University Lutsk, Ukraine sheludchenko@vnu.edu.ua https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5998-1531 Nataliia Yefremova, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University Lutsk, Ukraine yefremova@vnu.edu.ua https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1476-1831 Valentyna Boichuk, The Municipal Higher Educational Institution “Lutsk Pedagogical College” of the Volyn Regional Council, Lutsk, Ukraine boichukvalia@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9870-2195 Received September, 12, 2022; Accepted December, 04, 2022 Abstract The paper is grounded upon the fact that the amount of vocabulary in the English language is expending and growing quickly, as its constant development and enrichment are both an obligatory condition and a direct consequence of the progress in the particular branches of human activity. It has been accentuated that all terms, fulfilling the applied function of the tools of cognition and means of fixing scientific and technological progress, are unified and fixed in the language. Based on this, the classification of terms has been done according to normativity – non-normativity.