{"id":32,"date":"2011-02-09T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:06:03","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am the Raymond Dickson, Alton C. Allen, and Dillon Anderson Centennial Professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/depts\/german\/main.html\">Department of European and Eurasian Studies <\/a>and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/depts\/linguistics\/\">Department of Linguistics<\/a> at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/\">University of Texas at Austin<\/a>. In 2001, I founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdp.org\">T<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdp.org\">exas German Dialect Project<\/a> to document and archive the remnants of Texas German for future generations. In 2004, I founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laits.utexas.edu\/gframenet\/\">German FrameNet<\/a> project, which, since 2011 has focused primarily on developing a <a href=\"https:\/\/frames.coerll.utexas.edu\/welcome\">German frame-based Online Lexicon<\/a> (G-FOL), an online learners&#8217; dictionary. From 2012 to 2020 I served as the Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/lrc\/\">Linguistics Research Center<\/a> and from 2018 &#8211; 2023 I served as the Chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/germanic\/\">Department of Germanic Studies<\/a> at UT. Before coming to Austin, I was a postdoctoral researcher with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icsi.berkeley.edu\/~framenet\">FrameNet<\/a> project at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icsi.berkeley.edu\/\">International Computer Science Institute<\/a> and a research fellow in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.berkeley.edu\/\">Department of Linguistics<\/a> at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/\">University of California at Berkeley<\/a>, funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daad.de\/en\/index.html\">Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst<\/a> (\u2018German Academic Exchange Service\u2019). Prior to that, I studied law and linguistics at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-goettingen.de\/\">Georg-August- Universit\u00e4t G\u00f6ttingen<\/a>, Germany. I received both my M.A. (thesis: The Passive in German) and my Ph.D. (dissertation:\u00a0Resultative Constructions in English and German)\u00a0 in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/depts\/ling\/\">Linguistics Department<\/a> at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/\">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a full academic C.V., click<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/files\/2026\/08\/Curriculm-Vitae-of-Hans-Boas-August-2026.pdf\"> here<\/a>. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader (get it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/acrobat\/readstep2.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-goettingen.de\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   size-thumbnail wp-image-553\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/files\/2011\/02\/2869929687_c720dbe6f8_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"www.unc.edu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   size-thumbnail wp-image-552\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/files\/2011\/03\/500px-Old_Well_2008-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   size-thumbnail wp-image-554\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/files\/2011\/03\/2878339085_d235a09d46_b-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   size-thumbnail wp-image-555\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/files\/2011\/03\/3127176986_679b679915_b-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/files\/2011\/03\/3127176986_679b679915_b-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/files\/2011\/03\/3127176986_679b679915_b.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the Raymond Dickson, Alton C. Allen, and Dillon Anderson Centennial Professor in the Department of European and Eurasian Studies and the\u00a0Department of Linguistics at the\u00a0University of Texas at Austin. In 2001, I founded the Texas German Dialect Project to document and archive the remnants of Texas German for future generations. In 2004, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}