The Integrated Language Database, with an aside on the Spoken Dutch Corpus

One of the current projects of the Institute for Dutch Lexicology (INL) is the Integrated Language Database of 8th–21st-Century Dutch (ILD). The aim is to create a flexible linguistic research instrument by linking electronic dictionaries, a balanced diachronic text corpus and lexicons of historical and present-day Dutch. We aim to link part of our data with data collections stored at other institutes, creating a supra-institutional research instrument. The present paper gives an overview of the project, with an aside on the Spoken Dutch Corpus.