Veronique De Tier studied Germanic philology (Dutch and English) at Ghent University. She first ventured into the world of dialectology with her licentiate’s thesis on a specific dialect of East Flanders.
After finishing her studies in 1985, she immediately started working as an editor of the Dictionary of the Flemish Dialects (Woordenboek van de Vlaamse Dialecten) at Ghent University, where she continued working until May 31, 2020. For a significant period, she held that position alongside her role as staff member of Variaties vzw, the overarching organization for dialects and oral heritage in Flanders, where she is now a member of the board. Since 2003, she has also been active part time as vernacular-advisor at Erfgoed Zeeland.
Veronique has worked at the Dutch Language Institute (INT) as the Dialect project manager since June 1, 2020. At the institute, she holds the responsibility for the further expansion of the Database of the Southern Dutch Dialects and other dialect-related projects.
Additionally, Veronique is the chairperson of the Stichting Nederlandse Dialecten, an organization that unites vernacular-professionals from Flanders and the Netherlands. This organization hosts an annual conference on vernacular language. Veronique is also a member of the board of the Brussels association be.brusseleir. Her further professional activities include writing and co-writing a number of chapters of the Dictionary of the Flemish Dialects, co-editing a series of dialect related books for the Stichting Nederlandse Dialecten, and regularly giving lectures on dialects. Veronique and Jan Hautekiet also published the book Ons Moeder zei altijd. Rake wijsheden in 2017.
Publications
- Van Keymeulen, Jacques, Veronique De Tier, Roxane Vandenberghe en Sally Chambers (2019). The Dictionary of the Southern Dutch Dialects (DSDD). Designing a Virtual Research Environment for Digital Lexicological Research. In: Ed. Maria Pilar Perea. Dialectologia – Special Issue 8: 93-115.
- Van Keymeulen, Jacques, Veronique De Tier, Anne Breitbarth, et al. (2019). Het Dialectologische Corpus ‘Stemmen Uit Het Verleden’ van de Universiteit Gent. In: Volkskunde, vol. 120, no. 2, pp. 193-204.
- De Tier, Veronique, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen, Ton van de Wijngaard (red.) (2019). De wondere wereld van de streektaalgrenzen. Stichting Nederlandse Dialecten.
- De Tier, Veronique, Lien Hellebaut, & Liesbet Triest (2018). De benamingen voor de bunzing in de Zuidelijk-Nederlandse Dialecten: Een Nieuw Cyberlemma. In: Woorden Om Te Bewaren: Huldeboek Voor Jacques Van Keymeulen. Ed. Timothy Colleman et al. Gent: Skribis, pp. 187-198.
- Hautekiet, Jan, Veronique De Tier (2017). Ons moeder zei altijd. Rake Wijsheden. Thomas Rap, Amsterdam.
- Devos, Magda, Veronique De Tier en Cleo Vandenbosch (2016). De tweede hoofdzonde lexicaal gefileerd. Heteroniemen voor ‘gierig’ in de Zuid-Nederlandse dialecten. In: Leuvense Bijdragen – Leuven Contributions in Linguistics & Philology, vol. 100, pp. 278-301.
- De Tier, Veronique (2014). Meer Zeeuws dan Vlaams? De Zeeuws-Vlaamse dialecten. In: Scharnierend Gewest. 200 jaar Zeeuws-Vlaanderen 1814-2014. In: Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van West-Zeeuws-Vlaanderen 42. (red.) A. Bauwens en H. Krabbendam. Heemkundige Kring West-Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. pp. 107-120.
- Van Keymeulen, Jacques, Veronique De Tier (2013). The Woordenbank van de Nederlandse Dialecten. In: 3rd eLex Conference. Electronic Lexicography in the 21st Century: Thinking Outside the Paper, Proceedings. Ed. Iztok Kosem et al. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies / Eesti Keele Instituut, 2013. 261-279. Print.
- Vandenberghe, Roxane, Veronique De Tier, Magda Devos (2013). Woordenboek van de Vlaamse Dialecten, deel I Landbouwwoordenschat, paragraaf Landbouw, aflevering Kleinvee. Academia Press.
- De Tier, Veronique, Ton Van de Wijngaard, Ronny Keulen (2011). Het dialectenboek 11. Sprekend Van Aard: Bijnamen En Karaktereigenschappen in Streektalen. Vol. 11. Groesbeek, Nederland; Gent, België: Stichting Nederlandse Dialecten; Variaties vzw.