Hans C. Boas

Today, the German newspaper BILD ZEITUNG published an interview with me on my research on Texas German. Read more here.

New co-authored publication is out: Boas, Hans C., Leino, Jaakko, and Benjamin Lyngfelt (2026). Construction Grammar as a Framework. In Constructions and Frames.

Today I gave an invited talk at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik on “The formation and development of Texas German from the 1830s to the 2020s.”

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).