The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has granted subsidy to the research programme Letters as Loot. Towards a non-standard view on the history of Dutch, that could therefore start on the 1st of September 2008. The two Phd-projects - which will be carried out by Judith Nobels and Tanja Simons -  and the covering research of Dr. Gijsbert Rutten and project leader Marijke van der Wal can take place thanks to funding of the NWO.