Hans C. Boas

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I am excited to announce the release of our new co-edited book: Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder (eds.). 2018. Constructions in Contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages.Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. vi+316pp.

April 1st, 2024

This week, we will host the 48th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, April 4-6, 2024. Click HERE for the conference program.
March 15th, 2024

The March 2024 issue of Texas Highway Magazine features a story about Texas German, including an interview with me and my colleague Jim Kearney. Click HERE for the PDF of the article.
January 28th, 2024

This week, an interview with me about Texas German aired on the “Deutschlandfunk” (German National Public Radio). Click HERE for the interview.
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.

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