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Lexicology I - Word Formation - AAA500103

Title:	Lexikologie I - slovotvorba
Guaranteed by:	Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts
Actual:	from 2018
Semester:	winter
Points:	2
E-Credits:	5
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / 15 (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:
Additional information:	https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=668
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	Mgr. Kateřina Vašků, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	Mgr. Kateřina Vašků, Ph.D.
Class:	Exchange - 09.1 Modern EC Languages Exchange - 09.3 Linguistics
Is co-requisite for:	AAA5ZK103
Is pre-requisite for:	AAA5PP103

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Annotation -

Last update: Mgr. Zuzana Freitas Lopesová (06.11.2017)

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.

Course completion requirements -

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Vašků, Ph.D. (22.09.2022)

All credit requirements must be met by the end of the examination period of the academic year in which the student enrolled the course.

Credit requirements: attendance and active participation in seminars (max. 3 absences), fulfillment of assigned tasks, presentation and final test.

Literature -

Last update: MOJZK4AF (08.01.2019)

Essential literature
Plag, I., Word-Formation in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018
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., R. Lieber, I. Plag, The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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.

Teaching methods -

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

seminar

Syllabus -

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Vašků, Ph.D. (24.09.2020)

Introduction to Word Formation - basic concepts, typologies
Prefixation & Suffixation
Productivity, WF and corpus linguistics
Compounding & Combining forms
Shortening & Blending
Conversion
Borrowing and minor word-formation processes
Semantic shift – metaphor, metonymy, etc.
Cognitive aspects of word-formation
Onomasiological approach to WF