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An introduction to theoretical and practical description of the English lexicon: The first part of English lexicology, word-formation, provides a survey of the word-formation means employed in the lexicon, its innovation and dynamics.
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Essential literature Plag, I., Word-Formation in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 Bauer, L., Huddleston, R., Lexical word-formation. (pp. 1621-1721) In: Huddleston, R., Pullum, G.K., The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, Cambridge University Press, 2002. Quirk et al., A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, Longman, 1985. - Appendix I: Word-formation.
Supplementary literature Adams, V., Complex Words in English, Longman-Pearson, 2001. Arnold, I.V., The English Word, Moscow, 1986. Bauer L., English Word-formation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Bauer, L., A Glossary of Morphology, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. Lieber, R., Introducing Morphology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Lipka, L, English Lexicology, Gunter Narr, 2002 (An Outline of English Lexicology, 1990). Marchand, H., The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation, Beck, München, 1969. Štekauer, P., R. Lieber (eds) Handbook of Word-Formation, Springer, 2005. Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (03.10.2010)
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seminar Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (03.10.2010)
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Syllabus 1. Introduction - defining lexicology, word-formation, basic concepts. 2. Derivation - prefixation 3. Suffixation 4. Confixation (the use of combining forms) 5. Compounding 6. Form reduction (clipping, abbreviation) 7. Form reduction (acronymy, blending, backformation) 8. Conversion 9. Semantic shift 10. Borrowing. Minor word-formation processes 11. Multi-word units 12. Neologisms Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (03.10.2010)
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