Hans C. Boas

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I’ve invited Dr. Thomas Schmidt to UT Austin on January 31, 2024, to talk about music, artificial intelligence, and linguistics. Come listen to his exciting talk, see the announcement here.

March 13th, 2025

Come learn more about German contact varieties world-wide! I’ve been invited as a plenary speaker for this year’s German Abroad 6 conference at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS in Porto Alegre, Brazil (Oct. 1-4, 2025).
February 20th, 2025

The Texas Monthly – The National Magazine of Texas interviewed me for an article on the meaning of the German word “Bock” as it is used in the famous name Shiner Bock beer.
January 30th, 2025

I published a new chapter on Constructional Syntax in the brand-new Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar, edited by Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou.
January 17th, 2025

Together with Margo Blevins, Utpal Pandey, and Joren Somers, I presented a talk “Documenting word usage in a critically endangered dialect: The Texas German Lexicographic Database” at this year’s SALSA XXIX (the 29th. Symposium About Language and Society Austin) at the University of Texas.
December 17th, 2024

Just published! This year’s newsletter of the Texas German Dialect Project just got published. Click here for updates on all things Texas German. Happy Holidays!

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