Hans C. Boas

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Together with my colleagues Jaakko Leino (Univ. of Helsinki) and Benjamin Lyngfelt (Univ. of Gothenburg) I presented a talk “What do construction grammarians think about Construction Grammar?” at the 12th International Conference on Construction Grammar in Prague.

April 26th, 2025

Call for papers just published! My colleague Atiba Pertilla (German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.) and I are organizing a workshop on “Listening to the Past,” bringing together scholars from history, linguistics, and digital humanities (March 2026). See here for more information.
April 26th, 2025

Two talks on Texas German in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the 49th annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies: “The study of Texas German in the 1960s” (together with Marc Pierce and Joren Somers) and “Updating the Texas German Dialect Corpus for (Comparative) Speech Island Analysis” (together with Thomas Schmidt and and Margo Blevins).
April 14th, 2025

My colleague Dr. Thomas Schmidt is visiting UT Austin this week to continue programming work on the Texas German Dialect Archive.
March 22nd, 2025

Article in the newspaper taz (Berlin, Germany) reports on the current state of Texas German language, culture, and identity. See [ here ]
March 19th, 2025

I just published a new paper on Zur Konzeption eines ingenieurwissenschaftliches Online-Lernerwörterbuchs. G-FOL plus Gingko in an edited volume published by C. Fandrych, A. Portmann, L. Schirrmeister, and F. Wallner.

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