Hans C. Boas

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.

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.