The field of paremiology is traditionally an interdisciplinary one starting with folklore, paremiology, language, literature, history, and other fields, their mutual influence being a peculiar and highly valued feature for all. This book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs studied, though mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, based on language corpora findings, subsequently leading to proverb minima. Apart from selected proverb data excerpted from tens of languages, there is an effort to arrive at a system of proverbs having a wider orientation based on the goal set to map proverbs in a language in a systematic and reliable way, showing proverbs and their use in large, multimilion language corpora. Next to its academic goals covering proverb theory of use and system, the book may be used by lexicocographers, monolingual and comparative, and language teachers in their textbook compilation.

A Frequency Dictionary of Czech is an invaluable tool for all learners of Czech, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on data from a 100 million word corpus and evenly balanced between spoken, fiction, non-fiction and newspaper texts, the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part of speech indexes. All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence with English translation and an indication of register variation. The dictionary also contains twenty thematically organised and frequency-ranked lists of words on a variety of topics, such as family, food and drink and transport. A Frequency Dictionary of Czech enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way. It is also a rich resource for language teaching, research, curriculum design, and materials development. A CD version is available to purchase separately. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.

Obsah i zaměření knihy Korpus a korpusová lingvistika vystihuje v zásadě její název. Zabývá se korpusem, v moderní lingvistice teprve nedávno začínajícím, ale dnes už mohutným a vlivným jevem, jeho aspekty i navazující lingvistickou disciplínou, korpusovou lingvistikou. Podává vedle přehledu základních pojmů i zásady a metody práce s elektronickým korpusem a doplňuje ho ukázkami studií, které se k němu vztahují, i několika ukázkami jeho rozboru. Nabízí také relativně vyčerpávající bibliografii a stručný slovník pojmů. Kniha je koncipovaná jako úvod pro lingvisty, popř. i nelingvisty, i jako vhled do korpusové problematiky obecně, především však na základě Českého národního korpusu, u jehož vzniku autor stál.