New Dialectological Project of Czech Dictionary of Dialects of the Czech Language

Present-day Czech dialektology stands at the beginning of a news era: a long-term project of the Czech linguistic Atlas (6 volumes) has been finished, and a space opens for another, no less important project: Dictionary of Dialects of the Czech Language which will encompass the lexicon of dialects in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Preperatory work on it has been taking place concurrently with earlier research tasks (besides the Atlas, the Dictionary of Moravian and Silesian Anoikonyms), but since 2011 the dialectologists concentrate on the project of this Dictionary. In the first phase (until 2015) they will work up entries beginning with A-C. The Dictionary is primarily conceived as an electronic one, it is espected to be connected with other dialectological projects in one interactive web application. The contribution presents the materiál base of the Dictionary and its conception