Draft:Slavic Linguistic Atlas

The Slavic Linguistic Atlas (Russian: Общеславянский лингвистический атлас, abbreviation: SLA, OLA) is an international linguistic, slavistic and dialectological research project.

History
Work on the Slavic Linguistic Atlas started with the 4th International Congress of Slavists held in Moscow in September 1958. The Congress established the OLA (Slavic Linguistic Atlas) Commission. The Commission in turn created an international work group, organized and represented by individual Slavic centers of research.

The participating institutions are: Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina; The Czech Academy of Sciences; The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; The Institute for Lusatian Language, Literature and Culture (Bautzen – Budyšin); The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts; The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts; The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; The Polish Academy of Sciences; The Russian Academy of Sciences; The Scientific Research Center of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and The Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Goals
Gathering field data for Slavic dialectology: phonetic, phonological, morphological, word-formation, lexical and syntactic data. The two groups of linguistic issues the OLA covers are historical-comparative and synchronic-typological.