Topic of this dissertation are compound adjective, their development and usage during two historical periods. Compounding is on the edge of czech word-formation methods. This method of creating new lexical units has spread the most during Czech National Revival as one way of expanding czech lexicon. Authors used mostly semantic fullness, economy of expression and uncommonness of compounds in both specialized and artistical texts and in both prosaical and poetical texts. Compounding already started to evolve more in Baroque period, compounds were used for their communicative value and unusualness. Basic classification is adopted from monograph Česká kompozita diachronně by Dušan Šlosar (1999), secondarily from monograph Tvoření slov skládáním by Ivana Bozděchová (1994). The aim of the work is to capture development of structures used in adjective compounds formation during these two periods, also to examine their occurences, functions and types, how they developed and changed during the periods of Baroque and Czech National Revival. The work contributes to analytical examination of the historical development of word-formation level of czech language, specifically of the method of compounding.

The topic of this thesis covers the field of word-formation processes and describes the word-formation creativity of second revival generation authors, in particular compound adjectives. The poetry collections of selected second revival generation authors (F. L. Čelakovský, J. K. Chmelenský, J. V. Kamarýt and M. M. Z. Polák) are the source for compound adjectives research. The monograph of Dušan Šlosar Česká kompozita diachronně/Czech Compounds in Diachronic aspect (1999) is the source of methodology for this research. We have worked with terms: compound adjectives, compounding, derivative compounding, linking word, first and second part of a compound. The research target of this thesis is to classify the compound adjectives, to assess the meaning and use of compounds in text, to consider their communicative significance and to observe the frequency of compounds in the text of the authors.