Haluzárna, bafačky a homokonec: Neologismy na webu Československé filmové databáze a relevance neologismů (nejen) pro popis slovotvorby

• Authors: Sláma Jakub

Title variants

EN

Haluzárna, bafačky and homokonec: Neologisms on the Website of the Czech-Slovak Film Database and the Relevance of Neologisms (Not Only) for the Description of Word-formation

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Studies of Czech neologisms usually focus on neologisms found in standard texts or in a collaborative online dictionary including mostly expressive words, invented words and the like. The paper attempts to bridge the gap by focusing on less formal and standard, yet fully authentic texts, i.e., user reviews in the Czech-Slovak film database. Based on 2,006 novel lexical units found on the website, it is shown that while neologisms are mostly found among lexical words, some are also found among grammatical, supposedly closed-class words. It is illustrated that derivation by suffixes and prefixoids as well as compounding are the most productive processes, yielding some surprisingly productive types of new words. Finally, the paper focuses on three prominent patterns found among the neologisms (X-árna, V-ačka, and homo-N) and points out their relevance, thus illustrating that studies of neologisms do not need to be trivially descriptive and classificatory but can point towards more general issues, both theoretical and methodological.

Keywords

CS

eologismus; prefixoid; slangismus; slovotvorba; sufixace

EN

neologism; prefixoid; slang word; suffixation; word-formation

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 105
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-38

Contributors

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Sláma Jakub

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i. |