Hans C. Boas

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).

This weekend, I co-presented three talks at the  Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference in Provo, Utah: (1) “The Linguistic Atlas of Texas German 2.0: A digital resource for investigating language variation, language change, and language contact.” (Hans C. Boas, Margo Blevins, Luke Lindemann & Joren Somers). (2) “On monosyllables in Texas German” (Marc Pierce and Hans C. Boas). (3) “Texas German front vowels in diachrony” (Joren Somers and Hans C. Boas).

This week I have invited Prof. Walter Kamphoefner (Texas A&M Univ.) to give a talk at UT on “The multilingual heritage of Texas” and to discuss how Texas Germans interacted with different ethnic groups across the Lone Star State.

This week I’ve invited German author Thomas Meinecke to visit the Texas German Dialect Project at UT Austin to discuss, among other things, the role of Texas Germans in his latest novel Odenwald.

Joint presentation “Turning migrant letters of the 19th century into speech” at the 50th Symposium of the Society for German American Studies, Columbus, Ohio (Hans C. Boas, Joren Somers, Atiba Pertilla, Thomas Schmidt, Margo Blevins, et al.)