Abstract
The paper briefly describes and illustrates word-formation of names of persons according to their occupation in modern Czech language. Compound-words are analysed in terms of their onomasiological, lexical and semantic characteristics.
Names of persons according to their occupation are illustrated on deverbative names of persons traditionally referred to as nouns of agents (nomina agentis) and on denominal names. Examples are taken from the Czech National Corpus SYN2010 and webside source of LEXIKO (including Neomat database).
Analysed corpus consists of 114 compound-words. Selected word-formation types of these names are presented and discussed: compound names with productive suffixes -tel, -č with deverbatives (velkopodnikatel, zeměměřič) and -ař/-ář, -ník with denominal names (zvěrolékař, maloobchodník).
Compared to derived names, compound names express their lexical meaning in a more explicit way, e.g. they name the object, material, place, instrument of what is person doing etc. To a less degree than with derivatives therefore lexicalization occurs when their lexical semantics is being created.