Hans C. Boas

2025a. Boas, Hans C. Constructional Syntax. In Mirjam Fried & Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar, 44-70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [PDF]

2025b. Boas, Hans C. Zur Konzeption eines ingenieurwissenschaftliches Online-Lernerwörterbuchs. G-FOL plus Gingko. In C. Fandrych, A. Portmann, L. Schirrmeister, and F. Wallner (eds.), „Weichgeglüht und luftvergütet“. Potenziale eines ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Korpus für Forschung und Vermittlung, 151-177. Tuebingen: Stauffenburg. [ PDF ]

2025c. Boas, Hans C., Ruppenhofer, Josef, and Collin F. Baker. FrameNet at 25: Results and Applications. International Journal of Lexicography 38, 159-189. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecaf011 [ PDF ]

2024a. Hans C. Boas & Ekaterina Levina. Zur Dokumentation und Erforschung deutschsprachiger Pressetexte in Texas: Welchen Einfluss hatte das Standarddeutsche auf das Texas-Deutsche? In C. Foeldes (ed.), Auslandsdeutsche Pressesprache in Europa, Asien und Nordamerika, 301-320. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. [ PDF ].

2024b. Hans C. Boas, Josef Ruppenhofer, and Collin Baker. FrameNet at 25. International Journal of Lexicography 37.3, 263-284. [ PDF ]

2024c. Hans C. Boas, Jaakko Leino, and Benjamin Lyngfelt. Constructionist Views on Construction Grammar. Constructions and Frames 16.2, 1-22. [ PDF ]

2024d. Hans C. Boas, Jaakko Leino, and Benjamin Lyngfelt (eds.). Quo Vadis, Construction Grammar? Special Issue of Constructions and Frames 16.2.

2024e. Todd Krause, Hans C. Boas, and Danny Law. The pedagogical Tipitaka: OER and the three baskets of ancient language instruction. In R.M. Meyer & A. Ruppel (eds.), Cahiers de CLSL No. 68: Language Pedagogy from Memphis to Tokyo. Current perspectives on teaching ancient and modern languages of Asia and beyond, 31-65. Lausanne: Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences de Langage. [ PDF ]

2022a. Boas, Hans C. (ed.). Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar. Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter. x + 365 pp.

2022b. Boas, Hans C. From Construction Grammar(s) to Pedagogical Construction Grammar. In H.C. Boas (ed.), Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar. Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions, 3-43. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter. [ PDF ]

2022c. Boas, Hans C. & Alexander Ziem. Debunking some myths about the role and relevance of (restricted) semantic role sets: Some thoughts on Ágel & Höllein 2021. In F. Gallez & M. Hermann (eds.). Cognition and Contrast. Festschrift for Sabine De Knop, 65-96. Brussels: Saint-Louis University Press. [ PDF ]

2021a. Boas, Hans C. Zur Vergleichbarkeit von Sprachinseldaten. Ein Plädoyer für eine “bottom-up” Methodologie im Rahmen der Konstruktionsgrammatik und der Frame Semantik. In C. Földes (ed.), Kontaktvarietäten des Deutschen im Ausland. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. 66-88. [ PDF ]

2021b. Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Hoeder (eds.). Construction in Contact 2: Language Change, Multilingual Practices, and Additional Language Acquisition. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. vii + 437 pp.

2021c. Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Hoeder. Widening the scope: Recent trends in Constructional Contact Linguistics. In H.C. Boas & S. Hoeder (eds.), Constructions in Contact 2: Language Change, Multilingual Practices, and Additional Language Acquisition, 2-13. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [ PDF ]

2021d. Boas, Hans C. Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics. In X. Wen & R.J. Taylor (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, 43-77. New York/London: Routledge. [ PDF ]

2021e. Boas, Hans C. Zwei Jahrzehnte digitale Dokumentation und Erforschung eines aussterbenden deutschen Auswandererdialekts: Das Texas German Dialect Project (2001-2021). Zeitschrift für deutschsprachige Kultur und Literatur 30, 29-268. [ PDF ]

2021f. Pierce, Marc, Boas, Hans C. & Glenn Gilbert. Fred Eikel and the Study of Texas German. Yearbook of German-American Studies 56, 131-147. [ PDF ]

2020a. Boas, Hans C. A roadmap for determining the universal status of semantic frames. In R. Enghels, B. Defrancq, and M. Jansegers (eds.), New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 21-52. [ PDF ]

2020b. Lorenz, Alexander, Crane, Cori, Benjamins, John, and Hans C. Boas. L2 German Learners’ Perceptions and Use of an Online Semantic Frame-Based Dictionary. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 53.2, 191-209. [ PDF ]. Note: The G-FOL project was developed in collaboration with the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) at the University of Texas at Austin and supported by funds from Title VI grants P229A140005 and P229A180003 from the U.S. Department of Education. 

2020c. Boas, Hans C. Constructions in English Grammar. In B. Aarts, A. McMahon & L. Hinrichs (eds.), The Handbook of English Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley. 277-297. [ PDF ]

2019a. Boas, Hans C. Zur methodologischen Grundlage der empirischen Konstruktikographie. In D. Czicza, V. Dekalo, and G. Diewald (eds.), Konstruktionsgrammatik VI. Varianz in der konstruktionalen Schematizität. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. 237-263. [ PDF ]

2019b. Boas, Hans C., Lyngfelt, Benjamin, and Tiago Timponi Torrent. Framing Constructicography. In Lexicographica 35.1, 41-95. [ PDF ]

2019c. Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce (eds.). New Directions for Historical Linguistics. Leiden: Brill. x+184pp.

2019d. Pierce, Marc and Hans C. Boas. Where was historical linguistics in 1968 and where is it now? In: Hans C. Boas and Marc Pierce (eds.), New Directions for Historical Linguistics. Leiden: Brill. 1-41. [PDF]

2019e. Pierce, Marc, Boas, Hans C., and Glenn Gilbert. When is a dissertation not a dissertation? On Eikel 1954. In: Yearbook of German-American Studies 53, 187-196. [ PDF ]

2018a. Boas, Hans C. Zur Klassifizierung von Konstruktionen zwischen ‘Lexikon’und ‘Grammatik.’ In S. Engelberg, H. Lobin, K. Steyer, and S. Wolfer (eds.), Wortschätze. Dynamik, Muster, Komplexität. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 33-50. [ PDF ]

2018b. Boas, Hans C. Texas. In A. Plewnia & C. M. Riehl (eds.), Handbuch der deutschen Sprachminderheiten in Übersee. Tübingen: Narr. 171-192. [ PDF ]

2018c. Boas, Hans C. and Alexander Ziem (eds.). Constructional Approaches to Syntactic Structures in German. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. viii+453pp.

2018d. Boas, Hans C. and Alexander Ziem. Approaching German syntax from a constructionist perspective. In Boas, H.C. & A. Ziem (eds.), Constructional Approaches to Syntactic Structures in German. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 1-46. [ PDF ]

2018e. Boas, Hans C. and Alexander Ziem. Constructing a Constructicon for German: Empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues. In B. Lyngfelt, L. Borin, K. Ohara, & T. Timponi Torrent (eds.), Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 183 -228. [ PDF ]

2018f. Boas, Hans. C. and Matthias Fingerhuth. Deutsche Sprachinselkorpora im 21. Jahrhundert. In M. Kupietz & T. Schmidt (eds.), Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft um 2020: Korpuslinguistik. Vol. 5. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 125 – 150. [for the open-access eBook click here].

2018g. Boas, Hans C. and Katrin Fuchs. Zum Einfluss des Standarddeutschen auf das Texasdeutsche im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert: Empirische und methodologische Probleme. In A. Lenz & A. Plewnia (eds.), Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft um 2020: Variation – Norm – Identitaeten. Vol. 4. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 283-304. [for the open-access eBook click here].

2018h. Fingerhuth, Matthias and Hans C. Boas. Anglizismen zwischen Linguistik und Laien-Linguistik: Zum Fremdwortpurismus des Vereins Deutsche Sprache im Anglizismen-Index. Eine frame-semantische Analyse. In C. Foeldes (ed.), Sprach- und Textkulturen, interkulturelle und vergleichende Konzepte. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. 19-41. [ PDF ]

2018i. Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.). Constructions in Contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. vi+316pp.

2018j. Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.). Construction Grammar and language contact: An introduction. In Constructions in Contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.5-36. [ PDF ]

2018k. Boas, Hans C. A constructional account of the modal particle ‘ja’ in Texas German. In Constructions in Contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 253-276. [ PDF ]

2017a. Boas, Hans C. Computational Resources: FrameNet and Constructicon. In B. Dancygier (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 549-573. [ PDF ]

2017b. Boas, Hans C. and Matthias Fingerhuth.”I am proud of my language but I speak it less and less!” – Der Einfluss von Spracheinstellungen und  Sprachgebrauch auf den Spracherhalt von Heritage-Sprechern des Texasdeutschen. In Linguistische Berichte 249, 95-121. [ PDF ]

2017c. Ziem, Alexander and Hans C. Boas. Towards a Constructicon for German. In Proceedings of the AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium on Computational Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding. Technical Report SS-17-02, Stanford University. 274-277. [ PDF ]

2017d. Boas, Hans C. What you see is not what you get: Capturing the meaning of missing words with Frame Semantics. In Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 52. 53-70. [ PDF ]

2017e. Ruppenhofer, Josef, Hans C. Boas, and Collin F. Baker. FrameNet. In P. A. Fuertes-Olivera (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography. New York: Routledge. 383-398. [ PDF ]

2017f. Boas, Hans C. and Ryan Dux. From the past into the present: From case frames to semantic frames. In Linguistics Vanguard 2017. 1-14. DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2016-0003. [ PDF ]

2016a. Boas, Hans C. 2016. Variation im Texasdeutschen: Implikationen fuer eine vergleichende Sprachinselforschung. In Alexandra Lenz (ed.), German Abroad. Perspektiven der Variationslinguistik, Sprachkontakt- und Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung, 11-44. Vienna University Press. [ PDF ]

2016b. Boas, Hans C., Dux, Ryan, and Alexander Ziem. 2016. Frames and constructions in an online learner’s dictionary of German. In S. De Knop and Gaetanelle Guilquin (eds.), Applied Construction Grammar, 303-326. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. [ PDF ]

2016c. Boas, Hans C. 2016. Frames and constructions for the study of oral poetics. In M. Antovic and C. Pagan Canovas (eds.), Oral Poetics and Cognitive Science, 99-124. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. [ PDF ]