Hans C. Boas

Today, I co-presented a talk (with Margo Blevins and Utpal Pandey) on the TGDP’s effort towards compiling a dictionary of Texas German at the Institute fuer Deutsche Sprache (Institute for the German Language) in Mannheim, Germany: Documenting word usage in a critically endangered dialect.

Today, I presented a plenary talk at the Humboldt-Kolleg Making Minorities Visible: Language as a Medium of Inclusion and Exclusion at the University of Vienna (Austria): “Zur Rekonstruktion des Texas Deutschen im 19. Jahrhundert: Was wir wissen und was wir nicht wissen (können)” (On the reconstruction of 19th century Texas German: What we know and what we can’t know). 

Today, I co-presented (with Thomas Schmidt) a talk at the University of Marburg (Germany): “Von Hessen nach Texas — Sprachvariation und Variation in sprachlichen Daten” (From Hessia to Texas – Linguistic Variation and Variation in Spoken Language Data).

Today I gave a talk at the Linguistics Colloquium at the University of Wuerzburg (Germany): Zur Entwickling des Texas-Deutschen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute (On the development of Texas German from the 19th century until today).

New co-authored paper published online today in the journal Language Resources and Evaluation (Springer): A new corpus platform for the Texas German Dialect Project (with Thomas Schmidt and Margo Blevins).