NJ_G420 Contrastive Word Formation

Faculty of Education
Autumn 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: each even Thursday 10:15–11:55 Dětské centrum, 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.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
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.
Syllabus
  • 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)
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. html url epub 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
Teaching methods
seminars, exploaring language corpora (InterCorp, DeReKo), presentation of research results
Assessment methods
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 annually.
General note: Kombinované studium má výuku v pátek, prezenční od pondělí do čtvrtka..
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: nebo 12 hodin v kombinované formě.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2016, recent)
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