The purpose of this monograph is to present a synchronic dialect description that will prove useful for the dialectology and the diachronic study of Serbo-Croatian, for Slavic historical accentology, and for the study of the general properties of prosodic systems. The interest of Northwest ^Cakavian, to which the dialect of Orlec belongs, for these fields is generally accepted. The description is based on six months of field-work by the author.
While the chapter on syntax presents merely the most striking peculiarities, with regard to phonology, morphology and lexicon completeness is pursued. The lexicon contains between 4000 and 5000 entries (compound verbs from the same stem, diminutives and augmentatives not counted separately). All attested morphological forms have been listed.