Hans C. Boas

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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.

October 15th, 2025

New edited book on language contact is out: Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.). 2025. Constructions in Contact 3. Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. vii +325.
October 2nd, 2025

Today, I gave a plenary talk at the wonderful German Abroad 6 conference: “Kontakt und Wandel des Deutschen in Texas im Kontakt mit dem Englischen.” (‘Contact and change in Texas German in contact with English’). Porto Alegre, Brazil. October 1-3, 2025.
September 1st, 2025

I am happy to welcome Dr. Bin Zhang from the Dresden University of Technology (Germany) for his month-long research stay at the University of Texas. He will be conducting research on implementation of Construction Grammar in the foreign language classroom with a specific focus on pedagogical approaches to teaching German (Deutsch als Fremdsprache).
August 22nd, 2025

New co-authored article published! Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study. In English for Specific Purposes 80, 126-139 (with Yubin Qian and and Qun Zheng).
July 23rd, 2025

New co-authored publication (with my colleague Marc Pierce) on Texas German is out: “Texas German”, in the Yearbook of German American Studies Supplemental Issue 6, see here.

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