{"id":269,"date":"2011-01-10T19:38:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T19:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/?p=269"},"modified":"2011-04-04T02:23:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T02:23:51","slug":"something-else-happened-todayt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/2011\/01\/10\/something-else-happened-todayt\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Bloomfield Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this year&#8217;s annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Pittsburgh, PA, <!--more--> I was awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsadc.org\/info\/lsa-awards.cfm\">Leonard Bloomfield Book Award<\/a> for the \u201cmost outstanding contribution to the development of our  understanding of language and linguistics.\u201d The award honors my 2009  book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/Catalog\/ViewProduct.php?productid=47083&amp;viewby=author&amp;lastname=Boas&amp;firstname=Hans&amp;middlename=C.&amp;sort=newest\">The life and death of Texas German<\/a>\u201d  (Duke University Press), which presents the first major study of Texas  German, a unique fusion of English and 19th century German. The book  includes and in-depth analysis of the data in my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tgdp.org\/archive.php\">Texas German Dialect Archive<\/a>,  an online digital archive of recordings, transcriptions and  translations of interviews with more than 300 Texas German speakers.  Please see this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/depts\/germanic\/news\/3296\">announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this year&#8217;s annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Pittsburgh, PA,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}