Hans C. Boas

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!

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.”

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).

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.

I’m happy to announce the new release of the ZuMult platform for the Texas German Dialect Project, in collaboration with linguisticbits.de. Besides additional transcribed interviews from the TGDP, an additional annotation layer for Universal Dependency POS tags, and a couple of improvements to the front-end (streamlined navigation, improvements to the KWIC display and more), this new version also contains the historical interviews conducted by Glenn Gilbert in the 1960s with speakers of Texas German. This adds a diachronic dimension to the study of Texas German. The new version is at https://tgdp-zumult.la.utexas.edu/index.jsp.