On the conception of a nationwide dialectal dictionary

The papers provides so far the most comprehensive information about the conception of the Dictionary of the Czech Language Dialects, which is developed in the Brno dialectological department of the Institute of the Czech Language of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and which compiles relatively complete vocabulary of all dialects of the Czech national language. The authorial team builds upon experience from the work on the Czech Language Atlas and the Dictionary of Moravian and Silesian Anoikonyms. The initial, five-year period of the Dictionary project ends in 2015. During the period the team has compiled a glossary; at the same time it has worked up the conception and entries beginning with letters A–C (cca. 8,000 entries). The Dictionary will primarily be published in the electronic form, but at the same time materials for the printed (monograph) version are being prepared. The paper informs about the preparatory work, about source materials and their continuous enlargement. Attention is paid to the structure of a dictionary entry. The paper discusses the entry heading (the form of lemma and found variants; emphasis is especially given to the principle of lemma formation in words of foreign origin), types of entry heading, methods used in definitions of meaning, the way of providing records of the words and types of records, and the way of providing the localization (in some village or region). Moreover, it deals with the principle of nesting (in the dictionary it concerns the subordination of words which are in the modifying onomasiological relation with the main entry word). The project will contribute to the lexicological work with its planned interactive interconnection with the Czech Language Atlas and the Dictionary of Moravian and Silesian Anoikonyms. Several samples of entries are appended for illustration