FPF:UCJNNK21 Word Building - Course Information
UCJNNK21 Word Building in German
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaWinter 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/8/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Dr. phil. Veronika Kotůlková (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Gabriela Rykalová, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- TYP_STUDIA ( N )
- 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
- German (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
- Course objectives
- This course gives students the opportunity to investigate the word-formation processes of Modern German. The first half of the course will explore the major word formation processes of German (compounding, derivation, blending), combining this survey with a thorough discussion of key concepts such as `morpheme`, `word`, `productivity` etc. The second half will focus on using the forms in written and spoken language. In the seminar part students can check their understanding of the principal word formation processes of German analyzing texts and corpora.
- Syllabus
- Content:
1. Introduction to word formation
2. Structure of word formation processes
3. Introduction to the types of word formation
4. Compounding I: determinative compounds
5. Compounding II: copulative compounds and other types
6. Derivation I: noun derivative
7. Derivation II: adjective derivative
8. Derivation III: verb derivative
9. Blending
10. Textual functions of word formation processes I
11. Textual functions of word formation processes I
12. Word formation from a contrastive point of view
- Content:
- Language of instruction
- German
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Requirements:
Active participation in seminars
Final written examination
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2020, recent)
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