The Meertens Institute

Our main fields are:

1. ethnological study of the function, meaning and coherence of cultural expressions
2. structural, dialectological and sociolinguistic study of language variation within Dutch in the Netherlands, with the emphasis on grammatical and onomastic variation.

The results of our research are presented in a number of publications.

The institute also publishes its own books. We also organize workshops, symposiums and conferences on a regular basis.

Apart from research, the institute also concerns itself with documentation and providing information to third parties in the field of Dutch language and culture. We possess a large library, with numerous collections and a substantive documentation system, of which databases are a substantive part.

The Meertens Institute currently employs appr. 60 people