Hans C. Boas

Together with my colleagues Lars Hinrichs and Marc Pierce I am organizing The Texas Symposium on Classifying Contact Varieties on the UT Austin campus! Dates: January 15–16, 2026. Location: Harry Ransom Center, Tom Lea Room (HRC 3.206). For the full schedule and the abstracts, click HERE. 

I am excited to close out the year 2025 with two new publications !!! (1) Towards a systematic methodology for comparing extraterritorial German contact varieties. In R. Szczepaniak, S. Lindenfelser & A. Prediger (eds.), Deutsch als Minderheitensprache in der Welt, 9-49. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, and (2) Semantic frames as an empirical metalanguage for linguistic analysis. In W. Blanck, R.H. Gouws & A. Lobenstein-Reichmann (eds.), Lexikographisch-grammatische Perspektiven. Tradition, Veraenderung und Vielfalt in Lexikographie und Woerterbuchforschung. Stefan Schierholz zum 70. Geburtstag, 35-67. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 

New TGDP Newsletter just published. Today, the Texas German Dialect Project published its annual newsletter, click here for the electronic version.

Today, I gave a talk at the University of Erfurt (Germany) on our AI-experiments to reconstruct 19th century spoken Texas German based on handwritten letters from that time period.

Today, the German National Public Radio (Deutschlandfunk) airede a story on Texas German with an interview with me, listen to it here.