ICJ08 Vocabulary and Word Formation

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Adriana Válková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Jana Marie Tušková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
1. In the lexicology the students study the structure of Czech vocabulary.
2. To learn students how to work with online tools processing Czech vocabulary.
3. The word-formation presupposes knowledge of the basic terminology and methods of formation and to learn students how to work with tools processing Czech word-formation.
4. To show students how Czech words are created.
5. The students develop their ability to analyse word from semantics and word-formation point of view.
Learning outcomes
In the end of the course the students will be able to:
(a) find synonyms or antonyms for specified word, distinguish homonyms and polysemous words;
(b) explain the meaning of some strange words (almost archaism);
(c) identify phrases or other multiverbal lexical units;
(d) make analysis of word-formation (foundation word, word-forming base of word, formant);
(e) make analysis of word-building (the root, prefixed part, suffixed part of the word).
Syllabus
  • Full-time studies:
  • 1. Fundamental terminology of the lexicology and word formation in the Czech language.
  • 2. Word and names. Types of names: words, phraseologism, groups of words.
  • 3. Classification of the vocabulary from the development and historian point of view. Origin of the lexical units. Analysis of the lexical units in the authentically texts.
  • 4. Increasing of the vocabulary. Loanwords.
  • 5. Semantic relations in the vocabulary. Synonyms, its function in the texts. Antonyms, the types of antonyms. Hyponyms, hyperonyms.
  • 6. Word-formation and word-building in Czech language. Fundamental terminology. Motivated and non-motivated words.
  • 7. Types of word-formation in Czech language, their character and productivity.
  • 8. The word-formation by suffixes and prefixes - substantives, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs - derivation.
  • 9. Composition. Abbreviation.
  • 10. Analysis of the words from word-formative point of view.
  • 11. Morphemic analysis of word structure. Analysis of word-building.
  • 12. Lexical orthography.
  • Extra-mural studies:
  • 1. Fundamental terminology of the lexicology and word formation in the Czech language.
  • a) Word and names. Types of names: words, phraseologism, groups of words.
  • b) Semantic relations in the vocabulary. Synonyms, its function in the texts. Antonyms, the types of antonyms. Hyponyms, hyperonyms.
  • 2. Word-formation and word-building in Czech language. Fundamental terminology.
  • a) Motivated and non-motivated words.
  • b) Types of word-formation in Czech language: derivation, composition, abbreviation.
  • c) Word-forming stem; the word-formation by suffixes and prefixes.
  • d) Analysis of the words from word-formative point of view.
  • 3. Morphemic analysis of word structure. Analysis of word-building.
  • 4. Lexical orthography.
Literature
    required literature
  • MACHÁLEK, Tomáš. Slovo v kostce – agregátor slovních profilů. 2019. URL info
  • HAUSER, Přemysl. Slovní zásoba (The Vocabulary). In Český jazyk. 1st ed. Praha: Grada Publishing, a. s., 2012, p. 45-58. Pedagogika. ISBN 978-80-247-3358-6. info
  • HAUSER, Přemysl. Tvoření slov (Word Forming). In Český jazyk. 1st ed. Praha: Grada Publishing, a. s., 2012, p. 59-92. Pedagogika. ISBN 978-80-247-3358-6. info
  • ŠMERK, Pavel, Karel PALA and Markéta PRAVDOVÁ. Internetová jazyková příručka (Internet Language Reference Book). 2010. URL info
  • HAUSER, Přemysl. Základní pojmy z nauky o slovní zásobě a tvoření slov. 3. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2009, 49 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-4841-6. info
    recommended literature
  • KLÍMOVÁ, Květoslava and Ivana KOLÁŘOVÁ. Čeština zajímavě a komunikativně I (Czech in an Interesting and Communicative Way). 1st ed. Praha: Grada Publishing, a. s., 2013, 296 pp. Pedagogika. ISBN 978-80-247-4112-3. info
  • HUBÁČEK, Jaroslav, Eva JANDOVÁ, Diana SVOBODOVÁ and Jana SVOBODOVÁ. Čeština pro učitele. Vydání čtvrté, upravené. [Odry]: Vade mecum Bohemiae, 2010, 375 stran. ISBN 9788086041377. info
  • SVOBODOVÁ, Diana. Tvoření slov a česká lexikologie. Ostrava, 2005. info
  • KOLÁŘOVÁ, Ivana. Cvičení z nauky o slovní zásobě a tvoření slov pro studující učitelství 1. stupně základní školy (Exercises from the Vocabulary and Word Forming for the student of the Teaching in the Primary School). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2004, 88 pp. ISBN 80-210-3343-6. info
  • ČECHOVÁ, Marie. Čeština - řeč a jazyk. Praha: ISV nakladatelství, 1996, 380 s. ISBN 80-85866-12-9. info
  • HAUSER, Přemysl. Nauka o slovní zásobě. 2. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1986, 195 s. URL info
    not specified
  • KLÍMOVÁ, Květoslava and Ivana KOLÁŘOVÁ. Čeština zajímavě a komunikativně II (Czech in an Interesting and Communicative Way II). 1st ed. Praha: Grada Publishing, a. s., 2014, 336 pp. Pedagogika. ISBN 978-80-247-4120-8. info
Teaching methods
Full-time studies:
1. Textual analysis, indentifying words in texts, interpretation of word meaning.
2, Analysis of word-forming structure - common and individual work.
3. Complex word-building analysis.
4. Individual word-forming of new words - controlled discussion.


Extra-mural studies:
1. Drawing of basic terminology - working in the groups.
2, Analysis of word-forming structure - common and individual work.
3. Complex word-building analysis - deduction and conclusion from special examples.
Assessment methods
Credit requirements: student have to master written examination of the vocabulary and word-formation and word-building. The first exam date will be announced in the credit week
The written examination consists of anguage phenomena in text of lexicology and word-forming. To be successfull student has to solve 70 % of the questions correctly.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Podmínkou pro ukončení předmětu zápočtem je úspěšné složení zkoušky z předmětu ZS1BP_CjC2.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 4 hodiny.
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