Part of the Czech Language Institute’s mission is to improve the level of education in linguistic Czech studies, and linguistics in general. Thus, it offers the public a unique breadth of information resources. The electronic dictionaries and databases cover several areas.
The definitive works are the major Czech Language Handbook (1935–1957) and the mid-sized Dictionary of Standard Czech (1960–1971). The lexical archive card file comprises the material foundation for these dictionaries. The Neomat database, on the other hand, maps recent vocabulary. The Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech relies in particular on corpus material. The Lexiko web node serves as a comprehensive source of lexicographical information and also as a guidepost. The Internet Language Reference Book links word entries, morphological and other data with explanations about problematic phenomena.
The names of towns and municipalities are compiled in a digitalised version of Antonín Profous’ dictionary, Local Names in Bohemia, from 1947–1957. The abundance of names of geographical features outside of developed areas, mainly particular parcels of land, mountains, bodies of waters and roads, are mapped by two works currently under development: the Dictionary of Minor Place Names in Bohemia, and the Dictionary of Minor Place Names in Moravia and Silesia. We are publishing the Dictionary of the Czech Language Dialects online in instalments, and almost the entire Czech Language Atlas, the masterpiece of Czech dialectology, is already available.
The web node Web Vocabulary, which contains old dictionaries, grammar works, editions of historical texts and many other works, is a rich source of information for people interested in the history and evolution of the Czech language. It also includes an electronic version of the Old Czech Dictionary, a major diachronic dictionary that describes old Czech words beginning with the letters N through P, and the more recent Electronic Dictionary of Old Czech, which includes old Czech vocabulary beginning with the letters A through M and při- through Ž. The Lexical Database of Humanistic and Baroque Czech is another work, intended mainly for the academic public.
The Czech Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic also studies Czech language interactions. The DIALOG corpus, which contains transcriptions and video recordings of TV debate shows, is an excellent source of material for Czech language interactions.
The digitalised Bibliography of Czech Linguistics yearbooks systematically record Czech studies and Czech linguistic works from 1945 on.
