Lexicology - OCRA20AJ12

• Title: Lexikologie
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 0
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/7, C [HT]
• Capacity: 0 / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: combined
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D.

Annotation

The course aims to introduce students to the field of lexicology and embraces the topics related to the form and meaning of words, including the morphological structure of words, word formation, the concept of meaning, its types and variuos approaches to its study, and paradigmatic and syntagmatic sense relations. Moreover, it covers the issue of word origin and borrowing.

Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)

Course completion requirements

CREDIT awarded for:

1)  a classroom activity:  create a classroom activity dealing with a chosen lexicological topic  (the deadline will be negotiated)

2)  compulsory homework in Moodle: obligatory exercises focused on the topics dealt with during the course (the deadline for the completion will be negotiated)

3)  active participation in the seminars: lecture and seminar handouts for every session can be downloaded from Moodle

Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)

Literature

BAUER, Laurie (1983) Vocabulary, London: Routledge.

BEJAN, Camelia (2017) English Words: Structure, Origin and Meaning, New York: Addleton Academic Publishers.

CARSTAIRS-MCCARTHY, Andrew (2002) An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and their Structure, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

CRYSTAL, David (1995) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge: CUP.

GREENBAUM, Sidney and QUIRK, Randolph (1990) A Student’s Grammar of the English Language, London: Longman. – Appendix I: Word-formation.

HUDDLESTON, Rodney and PULLUM, Geoffrey K. (2002) The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, Cambridge: CUP.

KATAMBA, Francis (1994) English Words. London: Routledge.

MCCARTHY, Michael (1990) Vocabulary. Oxford: OUP.

PEPRNÍK, Jaroslav (2001) English Lexicology, Olomouc: FFUP.

VACHEK, Josef (1991) Chapters from Modern English Lexicology and Stylistics, Praha: SPN

VACHEK, Josef (1990) English Past and Present, An Introductory Course, Praha: SPN

Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)

Syllabus

SEMINAR 1: Introduction to lexicology, morphological structure, word formation.

SEMINAR 2: Meaning. Different aspects of lexical meaning. 

SEMINAR 3: Paradigmatic sense relations.

SEMINAR 4: Collocation and set expressions.

SEMINAR 5: Etymology and borrowing.

Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)