Hans C. Boas

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.

Today, I gave a presentation at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany) on “German contact varieties as a test bed for Construction Grammar.”

My latest article was just published: “What happened to Frame Semantics?”, in the journal English Linguistics, 41, 1-55.

Today, I presented a talk on “Documenting and Analyzing Texas German” at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria). On the same day, the German weekly news magazine DER SPIEGEL publishes a story on Texas German, see here.

Today, I presented a talk on “250 years of Texas German” at the Division of Alsatian Dialectology at the University of Strasbourg (France).