Abstract
The Theory of the cultivation of language in the Czech language is almost exclusively limited to the care for the literary form (notably morphology). The primary tool in its regulatory function is prescriptive codification that intervenes in the language.
This paper deals with the topic of codification, its scope, contents, and criteria. The scope refers to the validity of codification in relation to time, including the issue of what the codification guidance entails (i.e. to which linguistic texts this attribute is applicable).
The contents of codification traditionally refer to the form only (not the meaning) as there is disparity even between the completeness of the norm and the restricting of codification to specific levels of the language (notably morphology). The final part discusses the criteria of codification and compares intervention activities in both codified and non-codified languages.