Compounds in the Czech sign language

The present bachelor's thesis analyzes compounds in the Czech sign language. Introductory chapters present a brief summary of word-formation in Czech, of compound types in Czech and the principles of formation of new signs in the Czech sign language. For the purposes of this work, the author made excerpts of Czech sign language compounds from a selected sample of print and electronic dictionaries of the Czech sign language, on the basis of which she described the nature of different types of compounds in the Czech sign language (spoken language-affected compounds vs. true compounds; subordinate and coordinate compounds; sequential, simultaneous and sequential-simultaneous compounds). Also, a part of this work presents a study on phonological processes in sequential compounds that occur during the articulation