Lexicology of Czech Language

Syllabus

Lexikologie českého jazyka

Vyučující: PhDr. Blanka Nedvědová, Ph.D.

Cíl kursu: teoretická i praktická orientace v problematice lexikologie, lexikografie a slovotvorby Obsah kurzu: jednotky lexikálního subsystému; význam lexikálních jednotek; významové vztahy; slovní zásoba češtiny; slovotvorba; lexikografie; Český národní korpus.  

Annotation

Basic terms: word and lexeme (as "dictionary entry"). Word: an orthographic, phonological, lexical, grammatical unit.

Lexical semantics. Grammatical words; clitics: neither words nor affixes.

Morphs and morphemes: choice among allomorphs. Formal typology of word-formation (derivology) as a part of lexicology.

Basic notion of word formation: foundation and motivation. Concept of onomasiological category (OC) and classifiaction of OCs.

Formation of new naming units and its means. Concepts of word-formative type, the word-formative type, the word-formative category, and of productiveness.

Morphological and word-formative structure of the word, and morphological and word-formative analysis. Lexicography: field of applied linguistics.

Types of dictionaries. Scope of idiomatics.

Functions of idioms: structural and nominative.