Early practice makes lexicographer perfect… On involving of the students of Germanics in the corpus research

Abstract

The article gives an account of the ongoing projects managed by the Department of Lexicography, Institute of Germanic Studies, Prague. The students of the Institute are directly involved in these internal projects supported by Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.

Projects focus on two main topics: corpus processing of phraseology and of concatenative adjective base morphemes. The article further describes how the authors cope with the problems arising as part of the lexicographical research.

Keywords

• contrastive lexicography
• phraseology
• word formation
• corpora