New TGDP publication!  Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce (2025). The for … zu construction in Texas German. In B.R. Page & M. Putnam (eds.), Varieties of German in Contact Settings, 157-184. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [ PDF ]

Caroline Reher (Technical University of Dortmund) visits the TGDP to deliver a talk on “Zur Vergleichbarkeit und Operationalisierbarkeit von sprachlichen Daten: Eine Fallstudie zu extraterritorialen Varietäten des Deutschen in Chile, Texas und Namibia.” Nov. 12, 2025.

TGDP presentation at the Goethe-Institut Houston: “Stinkkatze und Eichkatze: The history of the German language in Texas.” (Hans C. Boas), Houston, Texas Nov. 20, 2025.

TGDP-presentation at the German Abroad 6 conference: “Kontakt und Wandel des Deutschen in Texas im Kontakt mit dem Englischen.” (Hans C. Boas). Porto Alegre, Brazil. October 1-3, 2025.

TGDP-presentation at the German Abroad 6 conference: “„Zeit“ im Texas-Deutschen – Eine Untersuchung der idiomatischen Lehnübersetzungen im Texas-Deutschen (Margo Blevins & Lena Braun). Porto Alegre, Brazil. October 1-3, 2025.

TGDP-presentation at the German Abroad 6 conference: “Frame-evozierendes Potenzial von machen im Texasdeutschen (Lena Braun & Utpal Pandey). Porto Alegre, Brazil. October 1-3, 2025.

Presentation by TGDP alumn David Huenlich “The MULTICULTURAL & MULTILINGUAL IMMIGRANT HERITAGE OF THE U.S.” at the German Texan Heritage Society, Austin, TX. Oct. 21, 2025.

Prof. Rufus Gouws (Stellenbosch University) visits the TGDP to advise on its ongoing project on compiling a dictionary of Texas German and to give a talk on Dictionary structures in the transition from print to online lexicographic products.

New TGDP publication: Towards a Roadmap for Exploring Past and Present Texas German Voices: A Case Study of German-Indigenous Relations. Yearbook of German American Studies 58/59, 173-214. (Jana Weiss, Hans C. Boas, Margo Blevins, and Verena Sauer).

Congratulations to TGDP member Dayon Ketchens, who successfully defended his Masters Report entitled “A Discourse Analysis of the Media Surrounding the Multiethnolect.” Also, Dayon will start his Fulbright in Austria year-long fellowship in September. 

New TGDP publication: “Texas German“, in the Yearbook of German American Studies Supplemental Issue 6, 159-190 (Hans C. Boas and Marc Pierce).

TGDP presentation at the Humboldt University (Germany): “German contact varieties as a test bed for Construction Grammar.” (Hans C. Boas) (July 17, 2025).

TGDP presentation at the Conference Varieties in Contact: Phenomena – Methods – Theories: “TGDA 2.0 – An enriched Texas German Dialect Corpus for (comparative) corpus analyses” (Hans C. Boas, Margo Blevins, Thomas Schmidt). University of Dortmund, Germany (June 6, 2025).

Official start of the 18-month long research project “Let the People of the Past Speak! Turning Migrant Letters from the 19th Century into Speech”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Together with Atiba Pertilla from the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and Thomas Schmidt from Linguisticbits (Germany), members of the TGDP will be exploring how 19th century handwritten Texas German letters can be turned into spoken Texas German with the help of artificial intelligence.

TGDP presentation at the Workshop “Archiving Ethnic Voices and Memory: A Roundtable on German Americana” at the 71st Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies in Siegen, Germany. Organized by Jana Weiss (UT Austin), with participation of Hans C. Boas on the founding, evolution, and relevance of the Texas German Dialect Archive for (German) American Studies.

Story on the history of Texas German appears in the German news magazine “Der Spiegel” online: “Mit ‘Howdy’ gruessen, Brahms singen.”

TGDP presentation at the Division on Alsatian Dialectology, University of Strasbourg (France): “250 Years of Texas German.” (Hans C. Boas) (June 17, 2024).

Student Project on Texas Germans! Dr. Jana Weiss and her TA Anthony Hernandez Escobar took their students on a field trip to the Oakwood Cemetery as part of the UGS course “The Texas German Experience” (Fall 2024). The students examined the lives and contributions of notable Texas Germans buried at the Austin cemetery. Check out the student projects here: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9eecdd9031e44f3e8babc83732d8a738

TGDP presentation at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria): “Documenting and Analyzing Texas German.” (Hans C. Boas, June 24, 2025).

Dr. Thomas Schmidt visits the TGDP to continue programming work on the Texas German Dialect Archive.

TGDP presentation at the 49th annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies (Milwaukee, Wisconsin): “The study of Texas German in the 1960s.” (Hans C. Boas, Marc Pierce, and Joren Somers).

TGDP presentation at the 49th annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies (Milwaukee, Wisconsin): “Updating the Texas German Dialect Corpus for (Comparative) Speech Island Analysis.” (Hans C. Boas, Thomas Schmidt, and Margo Blevins).

A new student research assistant joined the TGDP: Welcome, Blayne Burke!

And Marisol Bayona Roman has joined the TGDP again — welcome back, Marisol!

Texas German is featured in Die Tageszeitung (Berlin, Germany): High Noon für Texasdeutsch [LINK]

Dr. Laura Guse (Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt) visits the TGDP for 3 weeks to conduct research on motion constructions in Texas German.

TGDP presentation at SALSA XXIX (the 29th. Symposium About Language and Society Austin): “Documenting word usage in a critically endangered dialect: The Texas German Lexicographic Database.” (Hans C. Boas, Margo Blevins, Utpal Pandey, Joren Somers) (January 17, 2025)

New student research assistants are joining the TGDP: Elisabeth Berman, Kaplan Brady, Damian del Bosque, and Allison Frank. Welcome to the TGDP team!

The Texas Monthly – The National Magazine of Texas interviewed Hans C. Boas for an article on the meaning of the German word “Bock” as it is used in the famous name Shiner Bock beer. [LINK]