Nominant

• Authors: Mikuláš Preininger

Title variants

EN

On the Czech word nominant ‘nominee’

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with several issues associated with the Czech word nominant ‘nominee’. (1) Although the frequency of the word has been growing, it is not listed in any established Czech dictionaries. This might cause some problems, since (2) the morphological structure of nominant is misleading, as the word is formed by an agentive suffix but denotes a patient. (3) Furthermore, the base verb nominovat ‘nominate’ is often defined as a synonym of jmenovat ‘to appoint, to name’, which is inaccurate. (4) Nominant has also the variant forms nominand and nominát. Nevertheless, corpus data indicate that nominant seems to be the preferred variant with a rather stable lexical meaning.

Keywords

CS

derivace; jazyková norma; lexikální význam; nominant; přejímání; slovotvorba; slovotvorný význam

EN

derivation; lexical meaning; linguistic norm; loan-words; nominant; structural meaning; word formation

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 104
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 133-137
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mikuláš Preininger

• Naše řeč, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic