TGDP radio interview with KURV in MacAllen (TX) (with Hans C. Boas). Listen to the interview [ here ].
TGDP graduate research assistant Alexander Lorenz defends his dissertation “Beliefs about grammar instruction among post-secondary second-language learners and teachers” and accepts a tenure-track Assistant Professorship at the University of South Carolina (Upstate). Congratulations Alex!
Professor emeritus Glenn Gilbert (University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale) visits UT Austin and donates his research materials to the TGDP.
TGDP publication: Katrin Fuchs. 2018. “Word order in dependent clauses in Texas German.” In Zeitschrift fuer Dialektologie und Linguistik LXXXIV, 1-19. [ PDF ]
TGDP presentation at the Germanic Linguistics Roundtable at the University of California, Berkeley: “A new approach towards a systematic comparison of German-Language Islands.” (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP presentation at the Germanic Linguistics Roundtable at the University of California, Berkeley: “The diphthongization of [e:] and [o:] in Texas German.” (Matthias Warmuth)
TGDP presentation at the 42nd Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies in Indianapolis, Indiana: “Reassessing the impact of world War I on Texas German.” (Hans C. Boas, Marc Pierce, and Karen Roesch).
Victoria Jesswein successfully defends her senior honors thesis on Texas German at UT Austin.