Lexicography and lexicology

The students shall become aware of discrepancies between lexicological analysis and lexicographical description, especially in the fields of semantics and etymology. They shall develop a capacity for transposing lexicological research results into lexicographic description and of making use of methodological innovations in prominent dictionaries (possibly of other languages than their mother tongue) to improve less prominent ones (possibly of their mother tongue).

1. Lexical meanings and lexicographic definitions
2. Polysemy and its lexicographic description
3. Government pattern
4. Lexical functions
5. From scientific etymology to etymological information in general dictionaries. Three etymological classes: inherited lexicon, borrowings, and internal creations.

Synchronic lexicology and lexicography:
Mel’c;uk, Igor (2013): Semantics. From Meaning to Text. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins: vol. 2: 259-368.
Diachronic lexicology and lexicography:
Buchi, Éva (2016): “Etymological dictionaries”. In: Durkin, Philip (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 338-349.
Dworkin, Steven N. (2015): “Etymology”. In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Elsevier: 207-211.

Knowledge or contents: Con04, Con08, Con07

Skills or abilities: H/D01, H/D02, H/D03

Competencies: Comp01, Comp05, Comp09

Block seminar (date and duration to be announced)

1. Opportunity: Written final exam: 100%
2. Opportunity: The assessment on the second opportunity will be based on the same criteria.

For students who are offically exempt from attending the assessment system will be the same as for the rest.

Academic misconduct (cheating, plagiarism etc.) will be penalized according to the University regulations on student assessment (“Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións”).

Attendance: max. 35 h.

Students must obtain 25 ECTS in the first semester
Language: English and/or German.
Elective module in the second semester.