Another article in the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung.
Preliminary fieldwork begins in Crawford. For a newspaper article in the Clifton Record, click here for PDF.
January 16th, 2024
I’ve invited Dr. Thomas Schmidt to UT Austin on January 31, 2024, to talk about music, artificial intelligence, and linguistics. Come listen to his exciting talk, see the announcement here.
December 18th, 2023
Issue 16 of the annual newsletter of the Texas German Dialect Project (TGDP) is published. Click HERE for the latest updates from the TGDP.
November 21st, 2023
Together with John Benjamin, Karen Ewing, Maggie Gemmell, Karoline Kiefel, and Anja Moehring, I organized a panel “Learning new words with the German Frame-based Online Lexicon” at this year’s annual ACTFL convention in Chicago.
November 10th, 2023
I’ve invited Prof. emeritus Glenn Gilbert to visit UT Austin to give a talk on his pioneering research in the 1960s and 1970s on Texas German. He has also donated more research record on Texas German to the TGDP.
November 3rd, 2023
I’ve invited author Thomas Meinecke to visit UT Austin to hold a reading of his novel (in progress) featuring Texas German. He also donated a set of audio and video recordings he made of Texas German speakers in the 1990s and early 2000s to the TGDP.