The regional Polish language of Krakow : general view of the research project realized by the Department of History of Polish Language and Dialectology of the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University

The aim of the article is presentation of general assumptions of the research project which is realized by the Department of History of Polish Language and Dialectology of the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University. In the project participate: Renata Przybylska, Kazimierz Sikora, Donata Ochmann, Maciej Rak, Agata Kwaśnicka-Janowicz, Sylwia Przęczek-Kisielak, Barbara Batko-Tokarz and Patrycja Pałka. We focus on the problem of regional Polish language of Krakow. Our research includes both theoretical problematics and lexicographic description of regionalisms. In this article we discuss the following: a way in which we understand the regionalism as a term, source materials, criteria for distinguishing and verifing entities in the dictionary, types of lexical entries, the structure of lexical entry and thematic classification of Krakovian vocabulary.