OBJECTIVES
To introduce students to theoretical and practical description of the English lexicon. Part one deals with word-formation,  part two lexical semantics.

Winter semester

Part I - English Word-Formation

surveys the resources of the lexicon, its innovation and growth (word-formation processes, semantic processes, borrowing, etc.)

essential texts
Plag, I., Word-formation in English, Cambridge UP, 2003
Adams, V., Complex Words in English, Longman-Pearson, 2001
Bauer, L., Huddleston, R., Lexical word-formation. (pp. 1621-1721) In: Huddleston, R., Pullum, G.K., The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, 2002

supplementary texts
Adams V.: An Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation, Longman, 1973
Arnold, I.V.: The English Word, Moscow, 1986
Bauer L.: English Word Formation, Cambridge UP, 1983
Bauer, L., Watching English Change, Longman, 1994

Cowie, A.P., Phraseology, Oxford UP, 1998
Crystal, D., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1995
Filipec J., Čermák F.: Česká lexikologie, Academia, 1985
Lipka, L, English Lexicology, Gunter Narr, 2002 (An Outline of English Lexicology, 1990)
Marchand, H., The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Form¬ation, Beck, München, 1969
Moon, R., Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English, Oxford UP, 1998
McArthur, T. (ed.), The Oxford Companion to the English Language (Abr. ed.), OUP, 1996
Peprník J., English Lexicology, Olomouc, 2004 (skripta)
Ullmann, S., Semantics. An Introduction to the Science of Meaning, Blackwell, 1962

summer semester

Part II - English Lexical Semantics

focuses on the meaning of lexical items and the structure of vocabulary (lexical and paradigmatic sense relations, syntagmatic relations, field theory, componential analysis, prototype semantics).

essential texts
Cruse, A., Meaning in Language, Oxford UP, 2000
Lipka, L., An Outline of English Lexicology, Niemeyer, 1990
Cruse, D.A., Lexical Semantics, Cambridge UP 1986

Hoey, Michael, Lexical Priming, Routledge, 2005

supplementary texts
Aitchison, J. Words in the Mind. An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon, Blackwell, 1994
Arnold, I.V., The English Word, Moscow, 1986
Croft, W., D. A. Cruse, Cognitive Linguistics, Cambridge UP, 2004
Cowie, A.P. (ed.) Phraseology, OUP, 1998 (pb. 2001)
Leech, G., Semantics, Penguin, 1981
Lehrer, A., Semantic Fields and Lexical Structures, North-Holland, 1974
Lipka, L., English Lexicology, Narr, 2002
Lyons, J., Semantics I, Cambridge UP 1977
Lyons, J., Linguistic Semantics. An Introduction, Cambridge UP, 1995
Nida, E.A. Componential Analysis of Meaning, The Hague, Mouton, 1975
Palmer, F.R. Semantics, 2nd ed., Cambridge UP 1981
Sinclair, J., corpus, concordance, collocation, Oxford UP, 1991
Stubbs, M., Words and Phrases. Corpus Studies of Lexical Semantics, Blackwell, 2002
Wierzbicka, A., Semantics. Primes and Universals, Oxford UP, 1996