Karola Dejny wielki Atlas gwar polskich
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With the 1978 publication of his article on Main Problems of Polish Dialectology,
Professor Karol Dejna a new drew attention to the need to compile the great Atlas of Polish
Dialects (wielki Allai gwar polskich - hence AGP). Being the author of many works of
fundamental importance for Polish and Slavic dialectology such as Polish-Laski Linguistic
Border within Polish Territory, Polish Dialects, Atlas of Polish Dialectological Innovations,
co-author of regional atlases, as well as a reviewer and member of the editorial staff of Small
Atlas of Polish Dialects, Karol Dejna formulates research program and its organizational
framework. He elaborates the methodical basis of material collection in the form of a questionnaire-
notebook of 2000 questions and an article on the Project o f Material Collection for
the Atlas of Polish Dialects. The project, which is currently being realized-assumes that the
research will cover the whole territory of Poland, including the repolonized areas. The
mentioned questionnaire notebook will, in as many as 673 points, be filled with dialect
material obtained from the oldest generation of people speaking well-preservod dialect; it will
also be supplemented with the old material published in the regional atlases. The collection
of the material for the AGP will be combined with doing individual or collective research
(by individual workers or by research centers) which would concentrate on monographic
description of selected segments or points. This research, co-ordinated with the assumptions
of the AGP research and covering the population and language relations, can be conducted
in 19 parts of the Polish territory (selected by the Professor).
The almost completed documentation has created for some segments the basis on which
cartographic methods and techniques for AGP could be elaborated (Technique and Method
of Cartographic Elaboration of "Atlas od Polish Dialects"; Dialect Isoglosses in the Kielce
Sector of "Atlas of Polish Dialects").
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