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Word-formation of nouns: Compounds

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2018

Abstract

The concept and classification of compounds in this grammar comes from their word-formation structure, i.e. in terms of functionally structural, not genetic aspect. The proportion of composition in the language expression of the concept, its system character, variability and update modifications are monitored, as evidenced by the occurrences of compounds in the current usage (based on excerpts from the Czech National Corpus).

The structural meaning of compounds is in this concept based on their word-formation structure with respect to their motivation. The chapter presents and illustrates examples of the processes of pure and derivative composition, quasi-composition and juxtaposition in the creation of nouns.

They are introduced semantically - the names of persons, animals, objects, places, actions and results of actions.