TGDP member Matthias Warmuth successfully defends his dissertation “Phonological Convergence and Variation in a Dying Language Variety: The Case of Texas German.” Congratulations Dr. Warmuth !!! (April 3, 2023)
TGDP alumnus David Huenlich (now at the Catholic University Eichstaett, Germany), visits the UT campus to give a talk on his current research project “Black German speakers in Texas: Biographies, causes, and interethnic dynamics.” (April 5, 2023)
TGDP member Hans C. Boas gives a talk on “The Texas German Dialect Project” in the UT OLLI Program “The German Influence on Texas Part II.” (April 7, 2023)
TGDP member Caroline Reher presents a talk on “Relative clauses in extraterritorial varieties of German – A comparative corpus-linguistic investigation.” Dept. of Germanic Studies, UT Austin (April 12, 2023)
TGDP member Bradley Weiss successfully defends his M.A. report “Latin Loanwords in Old Saxon: A Statistical Analysis of Three Dictionaries.” (April 12, 2023) Congratulations Bradley !!!
TGDP presentation at the Germanic Linguistics Association Conference (GLAC) 2023: “A frame-semantic account of the preposition mit in Texas German.” (Hans C. Boas and Ekaterina Levina) (April 21, 2023)
TGDP presentation at the Germanic Linguistics Association Conference (GLAC) 2023: “Back vowel variation in Texas German: The case of /u:/.” (Matthias Warmuth) (April 21, 2023)
TGDP presentation at the Germanic Linguistics Association Conference (GLAC) 2023: “Part of speech tagging contact language varieties: A Texas German case study.” (Margo Blevins) (April 21, 2023)
TGDP presentation at the Germanic Linguistics Association Conference (GLAC) 2023:”Gender roles, language attitudes, and language loss in Fredericksburg and New Braunfels Texas German.” (Ellen Jones and Matthias Warmuth) (April 21, 2023)
TGDP presentation at the Germanic Linguistics Association Conference (GLAC) 2023: “A cognitive portrait of Texas German.” (Verena Sauer) (April 22, 2023)
New TGDP publication by Marc Pierce, Hans C. Boas, and Glenn Gilbert: “Fred Eikel and the Study of Texas German.” In: Yearbook of German-American Studies 56, 131-147. [ PDF ]
New TGDP publication by Ellen Jones: “Gender roles and language loss: An analysis of language attitudes and the potential for gender-influenced language maintenance and loss among Texas German.” Yearbook of German-American Studies 56, 111-129. [PDF]
Hans C. Boas is interviewed for a story on Texas German that was published in the May issue of the Texas Co-Op Power Magazine, see here. [PDF, MP4]
Hans C. Boas is interviewed for a story on Texas German in Fredericksburg in the Fredericksburg Standard, see here. [PDF]
An article about the TGDP appears in German Life, see here [PDF]
TGDP presentation at the 47th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies: “Monosyllables in Texas German.” (Marc Pierce, Hans Boas, Matthias Warmuth). (April 28, 2023)
TGDP presentation at the 47th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies: “From language documentation to dictionary compilation: On the structure of a Texas German Dictionary.” (Hans C. Boas) (April 28, 2023)
TGDP presentation at the 47th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies: “Texas German voices: Making 19th and 20th century Texas German letters available.” (Margo Blevins, Verena Sauer, Jana Weiss, Hans Boas) (April 28, 2023)