ECTS credits ECTS credits: 5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 85 Hours of tutorials: 5 Expository Class: 15 Interactive Classroom: 20 Total: 125
Use languages German
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: External department linked to the degrees
Areas: Área externa M.U Erasmus Mundus Máster Europeo en Lexicografía
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable | 1st year (Yes)
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. Lexical functions
4. Phraseology from a lexicological and a lexicographical point of view
5. From scientific etymology to etymological information in general dictionaries
Synchronic lexicology and lexicography:
Mel’čuk, 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.
CG2, CG3, CB6, CB7, CB8, CB9, CT1, CT2, CT5, CE1, CE2, CE6, CE10
Block seminar (date and duration to be announced)
1. Opportunity: Written final exam: 10%
2. Opportunity: The assessment on the second opportunity will be based on the same criteria
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
Students should attend classes regularly, and do the work set by the teacher
Students must obtain 25 ECTS in the first semester
Language: English (students may ask questions in German)
Elective module in the second semester (6 or 7 from 10)
Contingency plan:
In the event that a semi-presential academic (teaching) period is required or that all academic activities are suspended due to the COVID-19 crisis, academic activities will continue to be either semi-presential, combining both possibilities (face-to-face and online) depending on the health situation, or online. We will use the EMLex teaching platform (Moodle), (ii) different videoconferencing systems, and (iii) email. These tools will also be used as a means of communication and tutoring between the teaching staff and the students. Contents, planning, evaluation and bibliography will not be modified.