Another article in the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung.
Preliminary fieldwork begins in Crawford. For a newspaper article in the Clifton Record, click here for PDF.
June 7th, 2026
Today, the German newspaper BILD ZEITUNG published an interview with me on my research on Texas German. Read more here.
June 5th, 2026
New co-authored publication is out: Boas, Hans C., Leino, Jaakko, and Benjamin Lyngfelt (2026). Construction Grammar as a Framework. In Constructions and Frames.
May 27th, 2026
Today I gave an invited talk at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik on “The formation and development of Texas German from the 1830s to the 2020s.”
Today I presented an invited talk on “Pedagogical Construction Grammar: Between Theory and Practice” at the colloquium series of the research cluster “Estudos Descritivo-Gramaticais em Linguas Estrangeiras” at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) (via Zoom).