Hans C. Boas

2005a. Boas, Hans C. “From Theory to Practice: Frame Semantics and the Design of FrameNet,” in: Langer, S. and D. Schnorbusch (eds.), Semantik im Lexikon. Tübingen: Narr. 129-160. [ PDF ]

2005b. Boas, Hans C. “Semantic Frames as Interlingual Representations for Multilingual Lexical Databases”.  International Journal of Lexicography 18(4), 445-478. [ PDF ]

2005c. Boas, Hans C. “Determining the Productivity of Resultative Constructions: A Reply to Goldberg & Jackendoff,”  Language 81(2), June 2005. 448-464. [ PDF ]

2005d. Fried, Mirjam, and Hans C. Boas (eds.), Grammatical Constructions: Back to the Roots.Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: Benjamins (click to order book)

2005e. Boas, Hans C., and Mirjam Fried. “Introduction” In: Fried, Mirjam, and Hans C. Boas (eds.),Grammatical Constructions: Back to the Roots. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. 1-11.

2005f. Boas, Hans C. “A Dialect in Search of its Place: The Use of Texas German in the Public Domain, ”in: Cravens, C., and D. Zersen (eds.), Transcontinental Encounters: Central Europe Meets the American Heartland. Austin: Concordia University Press. 78-102. [ PDF ]

2005g. Boas, Hans C. “Texas German Dialect.” In: T. Adam (ed.), Germany and the Americas : Culture, Politics, and History, Vol. 3. Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO. 1029-1035. [ PDF]

2005h. Boas, Hans C. “Review of Baltin & Collins (eds.) Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory,” in: Studies in Language 29(1): 189-199. [ PDF ]

2004a. Boas, Hans C. “You wanna consider a Constructional Approach to Wanna-Contraction?,” in: Achard, M., and S. Kemmer (eds.), Language, Culture, and Mind. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications (Distributed by the University of Chicago Press). 479-491. [ PDF ]

2004b. Boas, Hans C., Ewing, K., Moran, C., and Jana Thompson. “Towards Determining the Influence of Internal and External Factors on Recent Developments in Texas German Phonology,” in: Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 10(1),  47-59. [ PDF ]

2004c. Bailey, Mathew, Boas Hans C., Eubank, Eric, Kelton, Kelton, Kishi, Coco, Lippmann, Jane, Raizen, Esther, Rhodes, Suzanne, TenBarge, Joe, Wilbur, Judythe. “Technology-based Language and Culture Projects at the University of Texas at Austin,” , in: Saito Abbott, Y., R. Donovan, and T. Abbott (eds.), Emerging Technologies in Teaching Language and Cultures. San Diego: LARC Press, San Diego State University. 363-381. [ PDF ]

2003a. Boas, Hans C. A Constructional Approach to Resultatives (Stanford Monograph in Linguistics). Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information. Pp. xv + 400. (click to order book)

2003b. Boas, Hans C. “A Lexical-constructional Account of the Locative Alternation,” in: Carmichael, L., C.-H. Huang, and V. Samiian (eds.), Proceedings of the 2001 Western Conference in Linguistics. Vol. 13. 27-42. [ PDF ]

2003c. Boas, Hans C. “Tracing Dialect Death: The Texas German Dialect Project,” in: Larson, J., and M. Paster (eds.), Proceedings of the 28^th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 387-398. [ PDF ]

2003d. Rauch, Irmengard, Barker, Geoffrey, Boas, Hans C., Cleek, John, Coffey, Michael, Dwey, Tonya, Goldman, Julie, Janko, Jiri, Kooiker, Jason, Shin, Suin, Toth, Gergely, Wooten, David: “On the German Language of Civility/Vulgarity: Evidence from Bonn,” in: Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 8(2), 261-289.

2003e. Petruck, Miriam, and Hans C. Boas. “All in a Day’s Week,” in: Hajičová, E., Kotěšovcová, A., Mírovský, J. (ed.): Proceedings of the 17^th International Congress of   Linguists, CD-ROM. Matfyzpress. [PDF]

2002a. Boas, Hans C. “Lexical or syntactic selection of non-subcategorized nominal arguments? The case of German  ‘Sätzchen,’ “ in: Rauch, I., and G.F. Carr (eds.), New Insights in Germanic Linguistics III. New York: Peter Lang. 9-26.

2002b. Boas, Hans C. “On constructional polysemy and verbal polysemy in Construction Grammar,” in: Samiian, V. (ed.), Proceedings of the 2000 Western Conference on Linguistics. Vol. 12. 126-139.

2002c. Boas, Hans C. “On the role of semantic constraints in resultative constructions,” in: Rapp, R. (ed.), Linguistics on the way into the new millennium. Vol. 1. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang. 35-44. [ PDF ]

2002d. Boas, Hans C. “Bilingual FrameNet Dictionaries for Machine Translation,” in: González Rodríguez, M., and C. Paz Suárez Araujo (eds.), Proceedings of the Third  International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Las Palmas, Spain. Vol. IV, 1364 – 1371. [ PDF ]

2002e. Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Archive as a Tool for Analyzing Sound Change,” in: Austin, P., H. A. Dry, and P. Wittenburg (eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics held in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Las Palmas, Spain. [ PDF ]

2002f. Boas, Hans C. “Some Consequences of Case Loss in Texas German,” in: Larson, J. & M. Paster (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 387-398. [ PDF ]

Boas, Hans C. “Frame Semantics as a framework for describing polysemy and syntactic structures of English and German motion verbs in contrastive computational lexicography,” in: Rayson, P., A. Wilson, T. McEnery, A. Hardie, and S. Khoja (eds.), Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2001, Lancaster, U.K. 64-73. [ PDF ]

2000a. Boas, Hans C. Resultative Constructions in English and German. Ph.D. dissertation. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Available through UMI dissertation abstracts at http://www.umi.com/ (Order No.: 9993275)

2000b. Boas, Hans C. “Resultatives at the crossroads between the lexicon and syntax: Where are they formed?” in: N.M. Antrim, G. Goddall, M. Schulte-Nafeh, and V. Samiian (eds.), Proceedings of the 1999 Western Conference on Linguistics. Vol. 11. 38-52. [ PDF ]

2000c. Boas, Hans C. “Optimal Syllabification of Yiddish First Grade Diminutives,” in: Carolina Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. I (1). 1-25. [ PDF ]

“Book review of Dieter Kastovsky (ed.) (1991), Historical English Syntax,” in: Indogermanische Forschungen 1998, 320-324.