Hans C. Boas

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

March 6th, 2026

This week I gave an invited plenary talk at the 5th Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy (CALP-5) conference in Tromso (Norway): Towards an Empirical Pedagogical Construction Grammar: Observations, Insights, and Challenges.
February 9th, 2026

This week, I’m hosting my colleague Verena Sauer (University of Vienna) at UT Austin. She is giving a talk on “Texas German in the minds of its speakers” on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, from 4-5 p.m. in BUR 337. All are invited to attend!
January 25th, 2026

This week, I’m hosting my colleague Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) at UT Austin. On Jan. 29, 2026, he will be giving a talk on “From Desert Monasteries to Digital Corpora: Quantitative Research on Coptic in the Age of AI.”
January 23rd, 2026

New position paper published (in German) on the Study of Dialects and Artificial Intelligence, the result of a scoping workshop in which I participated in Hannover in August 2025, organized by Alfred Lameli and Hanna Fischer (Univ. of Marburg) (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation).
January 19th, 2026

I’m happy to announce a talk by my colleague Dr. Atiba Pertilla from the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., on Exploring the Migrant Connections Corpus, Wed. Jan. 21, 2025, 4-5 p.m., BUR 335.

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