Word-formation analysis of Bohemian minor place-names

minor place-names from the territory of Bohemia. The parts devoted to the analysis of substantival and adjectival lexical units are divided into three sections dealing with suffixation, prefixal-sufixal forrnation and compounding. It has been necessary to approach the analysis of lexical the units forrned by suffixation selectively. The classification oflexical units formed by a certain mode become (in a majority of chapters) a starting point for the analysis of motivation of the individual minor place-names. The forrnation using the chosen word-forrnative devices is analysed on the background of the forrnation in the common-noun sphere of the language. One of the main aims of the thesis is to grasp the wordforrnative specificities in which the material of minor place-names differs from the common-noun sphere of the language. The analysis confirrns that so-called parasystemic means of word forrnation are typical of minor place names (as well as the whole proper-name sphere of the language). These means (mainly suffixes) are either not present in the commonnoun sphere (e.g. -čice, -ec1, or their typical function is different in common nouns (-ství, -inka). ln certain instances, the word-forrnation analysis conducted in this work may influence the interpretation of individual place names. This is due to the..