Hans C. Boas

Article in the newspaper taz (Berlin, Germany) reports on the current state of Texas German language, culture, and identity. See [ here ]

Come learn more about German contact varieties world-wide! I’ve been invited as a plenary speaker for this year’s German Abroad 6 conference at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS in Porto Alegre, Brazil (Oct. 1-4, 2025).

The Texas Monthly – The National Magazine of Texas interviewed me for an article on the meaning of the German word “Bock” as it is used in the famous name Shiner Bock beer.

I published a new chapter on Constructional Syntax in the brand-new Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar, edited by Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou.

Together with Margo Blevins, Utpal Pandey, and Joren Somers, I presented a talk “Documenting word usage in a critically endangered dialect: The Texas German Lexicographic Database” at this year’s SALSA XXIX (the 29th. Symposium About Language and Society Austin) at the University of Texas.