FF:LgBB09 Word and word formation - Course Information
LgBB09 Word and word formation
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Anna Tůmová (lecturer)
Bc. Lucie Lindnerová (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 10:00–11:40 G24
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of linguistic concepts, reading ability in English
- 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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 4/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Classical Archaeology (programme FF, N-HS)
- Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI)
- Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI)
- Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI)
- Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI)
- Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Modern Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Modern Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Modern Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Modern Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- General Linguistics (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- General Linguistics (programme FF, B-HS)
- General Linguistics (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- General Linguistics (programme FF, N-HS)
- Course objectives
- The course deals with the word as the basic linguistic unit. Most of linguistic analyses are done with a reference to the word, but words are also the first thing we learn in a language, and even the layman knows that it is words that make languages different. Still there is no single and uniform definition of the word and its analysis. Therefore, the course looks critically into the concept of the word and analyzes its structure and the way new words are formed.
- Learning outcomes
- By passing the course the students will
- gain the knowledge of approaches to the word and to the role it plays or does not play in linguistics
- be able to critically evaluate the pros and cons of the various theories and definitions of the word
- understand the inner structure of the word
- gain the knowledge of the ways new words are formed in various languages of the world - Syllabus
- Word and its position within linguistics
Morphosyntactic definition of the word, the problem of clitics
Phonology of the word, phonological word
Morphology of the word: the problem of so-called cranberry morphemes
Forming new words, word formation
Semantics of the word: the problem of synonymy and polysemy of words
Syntax of the word: the word as the minimal unit of syntax?
- Word and its position within linguistics
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Dixon, R. M. W. - Aikhenvald, A. Y. 2002. Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Cambridge University Press.
- HASPELMATH, Martin and Andrea D. SIMS. O čem je morfologie. Translated by Aleš Klégr - Kateřina Vašků. První české vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015, 376 stran. ISBN 9788024625041. info
- The Oxford handbook of the word. Edited by John R. Taylor. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, xviii, 864. ISBN 9780199641604. info
- BOOIJ, G. E. Morphology :an international handbook on inflection and word-formation. Edited by Wolfgang Kesselheim - Stavros Skopeteas - Christian Lehmann - Joachim. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004, xi, s. ISBN 311017278X. info
- KRÁMSKÝ, Jiří. The word as a linguistic unit. Hague: Mouton, 1969. info
- Teaching methods
- seminar, discussion, reading, homework
- Assessment methods
- oral exam (discussion) or final project (essay)
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2022, recent)
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