NJ_G420 Contrastive Word Formation

Faculty of Education
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 1 credit(s) (plus 1 for the colloquium). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Supplier department: Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
NJ_G420/01: Fri 26. 2. 14:50–15:35 A63 učebna, Fri 11. 3. 14:50–15:35 A63 učebna, Fri 1. 4. 14:50–15:35 A63 učebna, Fri 15. 4. 14:50–15:35 A63 učebna, Fri 29. 4. 14:50–15:35 A63 učebna, Fri 13. 5. 14:50–15:35 A63 učebna, T. Káňa
NJ_G420/02: each even Thursday 14:50–16:30 A33 učebna, T. Káňa
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! NJ_SLO Word Formation
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Abstract
The main objective of this course is to discover the most frequent word formation patterns of German, to describe them and compare with equivalents in other languages. At the end of the course students know how to find the word formation patterns according to their frequency and structure. They are able to analyse and describe them and to comment how they can be revealed in texts. As the students have to do research on context bound lexical units, they also acquire these units in chunks. Students of this course also gain knowledge in using the parallel corpus InterCorp and the German corpus DeReKo.
Topics for the summer term 2016: The most frequent compounds of German nouns (ending with -tag, -jahr, -mann, -uhr etc.), German derived words and their context and counterparts in other languages.
Key topics
  • German word formation: a brief survey
  • Statistics of German
  • German compounds and their counterparts in other languages
  • Discussion on the most frequent compounds with several basic words and their chunks (students´ papers)
Study resources and literature
    required literature
  • KÁŇA, Tomáš. Wortbildung: Umriss der Theorie mit Aufgaben und Übungen. 2., přeprac. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012. Elportál. ISBN 978-80-210-5989-4. epub, html, url info
  • ENGEL, Ulrich. Deutsche Grammatik. 2. veb. Aufl. Heidelberg: Julius Groos Verlag, 1988, 888 s. ISBN 3-87276-600-7. info
    recommended literature
  • Duden : in 12 Bänden. Edited by Kathrin Razum - Franziska Münzberg. 7., völlig neu erarb. und e. Mannheim: Dudenverlag, 2005, 1343 s. ISBN 3411040475. info
  • FLEISCHER, Wolfgang and Irmhild BARZ. Wortbildung der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Edited by Marianne Schröder. 2., durchgesehene und erg. A. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1995, 382 s. ISBN 3-484-10682-4. info
  • UHROVÁ, Eva. Grundlagen der deutschen Lexikologie. (Fundamentals of German Lexicology). 2nd ed. Brno: MU Brno, 2002, 136 pp. 2. vyd. ISBN 80-210-13243-0. info
  • KÁŇA, Tomáš. Sprachkorpora in Unterricht und Forschung DaF/DaZ (Corpuses in Teaching and Researching German as a Foreign Language). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 243 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6994-7. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
seminars, exploaring language corpora (InterCorp, DeReKo), presentation of research results
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
Colloquium (k): 1) Presentation of a seminar paper (10-15 mins.) 2) Seminar paper on the same topic (15 pgs.) Credit (z): Presentation of a seminar paper (10-15 mins.)
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
General note: Kombinované studium má výuku v pátek, prezenční od pondělí do čtvrtka..
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2016, recent)
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