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An Introduction to English Lexicology I - AAA400103
Title: Lexikologie I
Guaranteed by: Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2015
Semester: winter
Points: 2
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: AAA500103
Guarantor: prof. PhDr. Aleš Klégr
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Annotation -
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.

Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (03.10.2010)
Literature -

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)
Teaching methods -

seminar

Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (03.10.2010)
Syllabus -

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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