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Resumé
The goal of our thesis was to analyse the present situation of
compounds in the Czech language. We excerpted the compounds
from the two volumes of the dictionary of neologisms Nová
slova v češtině 1 and 2. We excerpted only the words that were
created by composition. Some of the words of the foreign origin
could have been taken over from another language in this form
but this usually cannot be determined exactly therefore we
treated these words the same way as the others.
Firstly we dealt with the position of composition in our language
and its current status. We found out that composition is
becoming frequent mean of forming new words together with
derivation. Although derivation is still the main mean in Czech
word formation, composition is gaining more importance especially
because of the influence of English.
In the part dealing with the structure of new compounds we
showed that there are also compounds made of three components
and there are not so rare as it might seem. We also analysed
some of the productive new ways of forming new compounds as
formation with prefix and suffix-like parts called prefixoids and
suffixoids or with components e-, i-, m-. These means come to
Czech also from English and the influence of prefixoids and suffixoids
is so significant that there are also new Czech components
of this type. The components e-, i-, m- are related to the Internet
and new computer and other technologies therefore we
can expect further productivity of this type of formation.
When studying the origin of the new compounds we found
out that the foreign components are more productive than the
Czech ones and therefore together with the new way of forming
new words there are also new components coming to Czech
from English. These components are usually of Greek or Latin
origin and they are international. But they come to Czech via
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