Lexical Semantics - ASK500168

• Title: Leksikalsk semantikk
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Germanic Studies (21-UGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022 to 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Norwegian
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Pavel Dubec, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Pavel Dubec, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Pavel Dubec, Ph.D. (19.02.2022)

The seminar focuses on a theoretical description of the vocabulary structure and basic semantic relations between lexical elements. A part of the seminar is also dedicated to practical exercise.
1. Introduction
2. Relations between lexical elements
3. Structure of lexical fields
4. Hyponymy
5. Meronymy
6. Antonymy
7. Synonymy
8. Polysemy and Homonymy
9. Componential Analysis
10. Prototype theory

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Pavel Dubec, Ph.D. (19.02.2022)

Min. 80 % attendance, the course ends with a final test

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Štěpán Zbytovský, Ph.D. (31.01.2024)

Berkov, V.P., Norsk ordlære. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1997.

Cruse, D.A., Lexical Semantics, Cambridge: UP, 1986.

Cruse, A., Meaning in Language, Oxford: UP, 2000.

Endresen R.T., Somonsen H.G., Sveen, A., Innføring i lingvistikk, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2000.

Leech, G., Semantics, London: Penguin, 1981.

Lehrer, A., Semantic Fields and Lexical Structures, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1974.

Lyons, J., Linguistic Semantics. An Introduction, Cambridge: UP, 1995.

Nida, E.A., Componential Analysis of Meaning, The Hague: Mouton, 1975.

Wierzbicka, A., Semantics. Primes and Universals, Oxford: UP, 1996.