Activities:
- Study of ethnocultural processes on the territory of Belarus; interethnic connections of Belarusians, Russians, Ukrainians and other peoples in the field of material and spiritual culture.
- Development of problems in the history and theory of Belarusian art, anthropology of culture.
- Study of the Belarusian language system at various stages of its development.
- Conducting sociolinguistic, comparative and comparative typological studies.
- Preparation of dictionaries of the Belarusian language, including translated Belarusian-non-Slavic and non-Slavic-Belarusian.
- Identification and analysis of the main trends and patterns of the historical and modern literary process.
- Study of problems of the history of literature and literary connections in the Slavic world and beyond.
- Research of the literary heritage of Belarus, including the preparation of academic editions of collected works of classics of Belarusian literature, literary monuments.
