Topics of lectures and seminars: 1. Definition of the concept of word, vocabulary, introduction to the subject of lexicology; lexicalization 2. Basic and associative meaning of words (connotation, denotation); Conceptualization 3. Semantic changes; 4. Meaning relationships (synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, etc. and their types) 5. Semantic classes; Categorization, Prototypes 6. Word groups, word combinations, idioms, phrasal verbs; 7. Lexical changes; Neologisms 8. Aktionsart 9. Borrowing words from foreign languages; 10. Creation of new names (derivation, word compounding, crossing, shortening); 11. Cognitive linguistics, Language and the human brain. 12. Introduction to corpus linguistics. 13. Credit test
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Coulson, S. & Oakley, T. Blending basics. 2000.
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Cruse, D.A. Meaning in language. An introduction to semantics and pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Dirven, R. & Ralf. Metaphor and metonymy in comparison and contrast. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2002.
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García, O. & Flores, N. &Spotti, M. The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Gutiérrez-Rexach, J. Semantics: Critical concepts in linguistics. London: Routledge, 2003.
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Huber, J. Motion and the English Verb. A Diachronic Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Langlotz, A. Idiomatic creativity. A cognitive-linguistic model of idiom-representation and idiom-variation in English. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2006.
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Levin, B. & Rappaport Hovav, M. Unaccusativity: At the syntax-lexical semantics interface. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.
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Lopez Rua, P. Birds, colours and prepositions. The theory of categorization and its applications in linguistics.. München: LINCOM, 2003.
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Rothstein, S. Structuring events: A study in semantics of lexical aspects. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
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Saeed, J. Semantics. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
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