Dr. Roland de Bonth

Dr. Roland de Bonth

Researcher/linguist
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+31 (0)71-5272277

Roland de Bonth studied Dutch language and literature at the katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, where his main interest was in historical linguistics and the history of linguistics. In 1998, he defended his dissertation on the Proeve van Taal- en Dichtkunde (1730) by Balthazar Huydecoper (1695-1778) at the same university. He worked in education for over 20 years, primarily as a Dutch teacher.

He has been a researcher/linguist at the Dutch Language Institute (INT) since 2019. At the institute, he works on the historical dictionaries and a computational lexicon of fifteen centuries of historical Dutch. He is also involved in making corpora of historical texts, including newspapers from the seventeenth century, accessible online. He writes a biweekly contribution to the web feature Terug in de Taal, which discusses forgotten words and word meanings. Additionally, he is an editor for Trefwoord, online tijdschrift over lexicografie and of the Handboek Didactiek Nederlands.

Roland is the contact person for all education-related matters.

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