Hans C. Boas

2015a. Boas, Hans C. 2015. Linguistic Splits along religious lines: The role of language maintenance among Catholics and Lutherans in Texas. In: P. Rosenberg, K. Jungbluth, and D. Zinkhahn Rhobodes (eds.), Linguistic Constructions of Ethnic Borders, 167-181. Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang. [PDF ]

2015b. Pierce, Marc, Boas, Hans C., and Karen Roesch. “The history of front rounded vowels in New Braunfels German.” In: J.B. Johannessen and J.C. Salmons (eds.), Germanic Heritage Languages in North America. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 118–131. [ PDF ]

2014a. Boas, Hans C., Pierce, Marc, and Collin L. Brown. “On the variability of Texas German wo as a complementizer.” In: STUF – Language Typology and Universals, 67(4): 589-611. [ PDF ]

2014b. Boas, Hans C. “Zur Architektur einer konstruktionsbasierten Grammatik des Deutschen.” In: Lasch, Alexander & Ziem, Alexander (Hrsg.): Grammatik als Netzwerk von Konstruktionen. Sprachwissen im Fokus der Konstruktionsgrammatik (= Sprache und Wissen 15). Berlin: de Gruyter. 37-63. [ PDF ]

2014c. Ziem, Alexander, Boas, Hans C., and Josef Ruppenhofer. “Grammatische Konstruktionen und semantische Frames fuer die Textanalyse,” In: J. Hagemann and S. Staffeldt (eds.), Syntaxtheorien. Analysen im Vergleich. Tuebingen: Stauffenburg. 297-333. [ PDF ]

2014d. Boas, Hans d. and Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds.) Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (click to order book)

2014e. Boas, Hans C. and Francisco Gonzálvez-García. “Applying constructional
concepts to Romance languages.”In: H.C. Boas and Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds.),
Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins. 1-36. [ PDF ]

2014f. Boas, Hans C. “Lexical and phrasal approaches to argument structure: Two sides
of the same coin.” In: Theoretical Linguistics 40.1-2, 89-112. [ PDF ]

2013a. Boas, Hans C. “Cognitive Construction Grammar.” In: T. Hoffmann and G. Trousdale (eds.),The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 233-254. [PDF ]

2013b. Boas, Hans C. “Thomas Hoffmann. 2011. Preposition Placement in English. A Usage-based Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.” English World Wide 34.1, 114-118. [ PDF ]

2013c. Boas, Hans C. “Wie viel Wissen steckt in Woerterbuechern? Eine frame-semantische Perspektive.” Zeitschrift fuer Angewandte Linguistik 57, 75-97. [PDF ]

2013d. Boas, Hans C. “Frame Semantics and translation.” In: A. Rojo and I. Ibarretxte-Antunano (eds.), Cognitive Linguistics and Translation. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 125-158. [ PDF ]

2013e. Boas, Hans C. and Ryan Dux. “Semantic frames for foreign-language education: Towards a German frame-based dictionary.” Veridas On-Line 1/2013, 81-100. [ PDF ]

2013f. Ruppenhofer, Josef, Hans C. Boas, and Collin Baker. “The FrameNet approach to relating syntax and semantics.” In: R.H. Gouws, U. Heid, W. Schweickard, and H.E. Wiegand (eds.), Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography.  Berlin/New York: De Gruyter/Mouton. 1320-1329. [ PDF ]

2012a. Boas, Hans C. and Ivan A. Sag (eds.), Sign-based Construction Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (Click to order book.)

2012b. Sag, Ivan A., Boas, Hans C., and Paul Kay. “Introducing Sign-based Construction Grammar.” In: H.C. Boas and I.A. Sag (eds.), Sign-based Construction Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 1-30. [ PDF ]

2012c. Boas, Hans C. and Sarah Schuchard. “A corpus-based analysis of preterite usage in Texas German.” In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1-11. [ PDF ]

2011a. Boas, Hans C. “Zum Abstraktionsgrad von Resultativkonstruktionen.” In: S. Engelberg, K. Proost, and A. Holler (eds.), Sprachliches Wissen zwischen Lexikon und Grammatik. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 37-69. [ PDF ]

2011b. Boas, Hans C. “A frame-semantic approach to syntactic alternations with build-verbs”. In: Guerrero Medina, P. (ed.), Morphosyntactic alternations in English. London: Equinox. 207-234. [ PDF ]

2011c. Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce “Lexical Developments in Texas German”. In: Putnam, M. (ed.), Studies on German Language Islands. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 129-150. [ PDF ]

2011d. Boas, Hans C. “Constructing parallel lexicon fragments based on English FrameNet entries: Semantic and syntactic issues.” In: H. Hedeland, T. Schmidt, and K. Woerner (eds.), Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications. Proceedings of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2011, Hamburg. University of Hamburg: Center for Language Corpora. 9-18. [ PDF ]

2011e. Boas, Hans C. “Coercion and leaking argument structures in Construction Grammar”. Linguistics 49.6, 1271-1303. [ PDF ]

2010a. Boas, Hans C. (ed.) Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.(click to order book)

2010b. Boas, Hans C. “Comparing constructions across languages.” In: Boas, H.C. (ed.) Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1-20. [ PDF ]

2010c. Boas, Hans, C., Marc Pierce, Karen Roesch, Guido Halder, and Hunter Weilbacher. “The Texas German Dialect Archive: A Multimedia Resource for Research, Teaching, and Outreach”. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 22.3, 277–296. [ PDF ]

2010d. Boas, Hans C. “Linguistically relevant meaning elements of English communication verbs.”Belgian Journal of Linguistics 24, 54-82. [ PDF ]

2010e. Bertoldi, Anderson, Chishman, Rove, and Hans C. Boas. “Verbs of judgment in English and Portuguese: What contrastive analysis can say about Frame Semantics.” Calidoscopio 8 (3), 210-225. [ PDF ]

2010f. Pierce, Marc and Hans C. Boas. “First Diminutive Formation and [d]-epenthesis in Yiddish.” International Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 15(2), 213-230. [PDF]

2010g. Boas, Hans C. “On the equivalence and multifunctionality of discourse markers in language contact situations”. In: T. Harden and E. Hentschel (ed.), 40 Jahre Partikelforschung. Tuebingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. 301-315. [ PDF ]

2009a. Boas, Hans C. The Life and Death of Texas German. Durham: Duke University Press. (click to order book)

2009b. Boas, Hans C. “Case Loss in Texas German: The Influence of Semantic and Pragmatic Factors,” in: Barðdal, J. and S. Chelliah (eds.), The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: Benjamins. 347-373. [ PDF ]

2009c. Boas, Hans C. and Hunter Weilbacher. “The unexpected survival of German discourse markers in Texas German.” in: CLS 42-1: The Main Session. Papers from the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. 1-15. [ PDF ]

2009d. Boas, Hans C. (ed.). Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications. Order the book here. (click to order book)

2009e. Boas, Hans C. “Recent trends in multilingual computational lexicography,” in: Boas, Hans C. (ed.). Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications. 1–26. [ PDF ]

2009f. Boas, Hans C. “Semantic frames as interlingual representations for multilingual lexical databases,” in: Boas, Hans C. (ed.). Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications, 59–100. [ PDF ]

2009g. Boas, Hans C. “Verb meanings at the crossroads between higher-level and lower-level constructions,” in: Lingua 120: 22–34. [ PDF ]

2008a. Boas, Hans C. “Resolving Form-meaning Discrepancies in Construction Grammar,” in: Leino, J. (ed.), Constructional Reorganization. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. 11-36. [ PDF ]

2008b. Boas, Hans C. “Determining the structure of lexical entries and grammatical constructions in Construction Grammar,” Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 6, 113-144. [ PDF ]

2008c. Boas, Hans C. “Towards a frame-constructional approach to verb classification,” in: Eulalia Sosa Acevedo and Francisco José Cortés Rodríguez (eds.), Grammar, Constructions, and Interfaces. Special Issue of Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 57, 17-48. [ PDF ]

2007a. Boas, Hans C. “Construction Grammar in the twenty-first century,” English Language and Linguistics 11(3), 569-585. [ PDF ]

2007b. Boas, Hans C. and Hunter Weilbacher. “How Universal Is the Pragmatic Detachability Scale? Evidence from Texas German Discourse Markers,” in: Hoyt, F., N. Seifert, A. Teodorescu, and J. White (eds.), The Proceedings of the Texas Linguistic Society IX Conference. 33-58. [ PDF ]

2006a. Boas, Hans C. “A frame-semantic approach to identifying syntactically relevant elements of meaning,” in: Steiner, P., Boas H.C., and S. Schierholz (eds.), Contrastive Studies and Valency. Studies in Honor of Hans Ulrich Boas. Frankfurt/New York. 119-149. [ PDF ]

2006b. Steiner, Petra, Boas, Hans C., and Stefan Schierholz (eds.) Contrastive Studies and Valency. Studies in Honor of Hans Ulrich Boas. Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang. (click to order book)

2006c. Boas, Hans C. "From the field to the web: implementing best-practice recommendations in documentary linguistics," Language Resources and Evaluation 40(2), 153-174. [ PDF ]

2006d. Boas, Hans C. and Hunter Weilbacher. "Documenting Diaspora Experiences: The Texas German Dialect Archive," in: Proceedings of the Waterloo Conference on Diaspora Experiences. [ PDF ]