Hans C. Boas

This week, I’m happy to welcome Rufus H. Gouws (Stellenbosch University) to UT Austin to give a talk on “Dictionary structures in the transition from print to online lexicographic products” and to advise on our ongoing project to compile a dictionary of Texas German.

New edited book on language contact is out: Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.). 2025. Constructions in Contact 3. Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. vii +325.

Today, I gave a plenary talk at the wonderful German Abroad 6 conference: “Kontakt und Wandel des Deutschen in Texas im Kontakt mit dem Englischen.” (‘Contact and change in Texas German in contact with English’). Porto Alegre, Brazil. October 1-3, 2025.

I am happy to welcome Dr. Bin Zhang from the Dresden University of Technology (Germany) for his month-long research stay at the University of Texas. He will be conducting research on implementation of Construction Grammar in the foreign language classroom with a specific focus on pedagogical approaches to teaching German (Deutsch als Fremdsprache).

New co-authored article published! Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study. In English for Specific Purposes 80, 126-139 (with Yubin Qian and and Qun Zheng).