Course title: Lexicology and Lexicography
Summer term
ECTS 5 points
Course convenor: Professor Milena Žic Fuchs
Lecturer: Dr. Janja Čulig Suknaić, postdoc
Language: English
Term: First term of graduate studies
Requisites: Attending this course does not require any requisites, except being enrolled in the term in which the course is given.
Course format: 2 lecture classes and 2 seminar classes a week
Objective: Gaining an insight into the fundamental concepts from lexicology and their application in lexicography
Contents: The course focuses on the lexical system of language, studying the word as the basic unit of a language. Various theoretical frameworks are covered relevant to dictionary makers and users. The first part of the course deals with morphology and word formation, while the second part of the course deals with phraseology.
Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
| 1 | Introduction to lexicology: Word. Lexeme. Morphology, Semantics, Etymology. Introduction to lexicography. |
| 2 | Word Formation I: Inflection and derivation. |
| 3 | Word Formation II: Compounding, conversion, reduplication, backformation. |
| 4 | Word Formation III: Diminutives, clipping, abbreviations and acronyms, coinage, neologisms, nonce-words, nonsense words. |
| 5 | Word Formation IV: Onomatopoeic words, eponyms, borrowing |
| 6 | Diachrony: Sources of English vocabulary |
| 7 | Diachrony: Semantic change (metaphor, metonymy, specialization, generalization)euphemisms, false friends |
| 8 | Phraseology: Idioms. Traditional and modern approaches. |
| 9 | Phraseology: Idioms and idiomaticity. Metaphor, metonymy and idioms. |
| 10 | Phraseology: Idioms and formulaic language. Proverbs, binomials etc. |
| 11 | Phraseology: Current research. |
| 12 | Phraseology: Phrasal verbs. |
| 13 | Lexicography I: Key elements of dictionaries. Definition. Usage. |
| 14 | Lexicography II: The corpus in lexicography. Dictionary Making.Types of dictionaries. The origin of dictionaries. History of dictionaries. |
| 15 | RevisionExam |
Class methods and procedures: Students should regularly attend classes and participate in class discussions. Seminar paper has to be submitted in the first week of January.
Evaluation:
Exam 70 %
Seminar papers 30 % (3,000-4,000 words)
Literature:
– Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew (2002). An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh University Press
– Halliday, M.A.K and Colin Yallop (2004). Lexicology. A Short Introduction. London: Continuum
– Harley, Heidi (2006). English Words. A Linguistic Introduction.
– Jackson, Howard and Etienne Ze Amvela (2000). Words Meaning and Vocabulary. An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology. London: Continuum
– Jackson, Howard (2002). Lexicography: An Introduction. Routledge
– Katamba, Francis (1994). English Words, Structure, History, Usage Routledge
.- Lipka, Leonhard (2002). English Lexicology. Tübingen: Narr
– Landau, Syndey (1984). Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography. Cambridge University Press
– Plag, Ingo (2003). Word Formation in English. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press
