Hans C. Boas

This past weekend, I co-presented on “The Texas German Dialect Project Corpus as a Diachronic Resource for Investigating Language Contact” at the  Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective at the Language Resources and Evaluation 2026 conference in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (together with Thomas Schmidt, Margo Blelvins, and Glenn Gilbert). [VIDEO] [POSTER] [ARTICLE]

Today I presented an invited talk on “Pedagogical Construction Grammar: Between Theory and Practice” at the colloquium series of the research cluster “Estudos Descritivo-Gramaticais em Linguas Estrangeiras” at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) (via Zoom).

This weekend, I co-presented three talks at the  Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference in Provo, Utah: (1) “The Linguistic Atlas of Texas German 2.0: A digital resource for investigating language variation, language change, and language contact.” (Hans C. Boas, Margo Blevins, Luke Lindemann & Joren Somers). (2) “On monosyllables in Texas German” (Marc Pierce and Hans C. Boas). (3) “Texas German front vowels in diachrony” (Joren Somers and Hans C. Boas).

This week I have invited Prof. Walter Kamphoefner (Texas A&M Univ.) to give a talk at UT on “The multilingual heritage of Texas” and to discuss how Texas Germans interacted with different ethnic groups across the Lone Star State.

This week I’ve invited German author Thomas Meinecke to visit the Texas German Dialect Project at UT Austin to discuss, among other things, the role of Texas Germans in his latest novel Odenwald.